1 with the Broken Front, Township of Pickering, County of York and Home District, Province of Upper Canada", was granted to William Holmes, Esquire.

From the 1802 survey of Pickering Deputy Provincial Surveyor General Sir David Smith[1] held 4800 acres land on the east side of the Broken Front from the shoreline of Lake Ontario to 2nd Concession.

[2] In 1843 Henry Cowan, an immigrant from Ayr, Scotland, bought lots 32 & 33 from Holmes and settled the land with his family.

In 1848 Cowan sold a small portion of his land on the shores of Lake Ontario to the Grand Trunk Railway Company.

When Ontario County was reorganized as Durham Region that year, it was transferred to the then-borough of Scarborough under Metropolitan Toronto.