John Scadding

Scadding arrived in Upper Canada from England in 1791, along with Simcoe, and he was granted a lot on the east side of the Don River in 1793.

Simcoe died in 1806, and Scadding continued to manage the estate for a few years afterwards, during which time his sons were born.

He built a larger log house and numerous other buildings farther north on his property (near what is now Broadview and Gerrard), including a large barn.

[4][5] The remaining portion of Scadding's original land grant, located north of Gerrard, was purchased by the City of Toronto in 1856, and the later buildings were demolished for the Industrial Farm and subsequently the Don Jail.

[6] The original log cabin was dismantled in 1879 by the York Pioneers and re-erected on the grounds of Exhibition Place, where it still stands.