APPENDIX F CULTURAL HERITAGE RESOURCE ASSESSMENTwebaps.halton.ca/files/ClassEA_DundasStreetImprovements_Sec2/A… · Environmental Assessment City of Burlington & Town of Oakville

APPENDIX F

CULTURAL HERITAGE RESOURCE ASSESSMENT

TO Katherine Jim,

MRC DATE February 28, 2013

(Revised March 6 2013, May 27 2013, June 24 2013)

FROM Lindsay Popert, ASI

ASI FILE 12EA-084

RE Dundas Street Environmental Assessment Study, Oak Park Boulevard to Neyagawa Boulevard – Results of Cultural Heritage Assessment and Impact Assessment

1.0 Introduction Archaeological Services Inc. (ASI) was contracted by MRC, Mississauga, on behalf of Halton Region, to conduct a cultural heritage assessment as part of the Dundas Street EA Study, from Oak Park Boulevard to Neyagawa Boulevard in the Town of Oakville, Ontario (Figure 1). Between 2003 and 2009, ASI conducted four cultural heritage assessments along Dundas Street through various areas. Previous reports that were consulted include the following:

Cultural Heritage Assessment Report Built Heritage Resources and Cultural Heritage Landscapes Dundas Street Transportation Corridor From Brant Street to Proudfoot Trail Environmental Assessment City of Burlington & Town of Oakville (ASI 2009; ASI File #07EA-270)

Cultural Heritage Evaluation Report: Bronte Creek (Tansley) Bridge, Dundas Street Transportation Corridor Environmental Assessment, City of Burlington, DRAFT (ASI 2009; ASI File #07EA-270)

Heritage Assessment Report: Built Heritage & Cultural Landscape Bronte Road (Highway 25) Improvements Class EA Region of Halton (Unterman McPhail Associates (UMA) 2002)

Class Environmental Assessment: Cultural Heritage Resource Assessment, Dundas Street (Regional Road 5) and Sixteen Mile Creek Structure Improvements, Town of Oakville (ASI 2003a; ASI File #01HA-04)

Built Heritage and Cultural Landscape Assessment Dundas Street (Regional Road) Neyagawa Boulevard to Oak Park Boulevard Class Environmental Assessment, Town of Oakville, Regional Municipality of Halton, Ontario (ASI 2007 DRAFT; ASI File #05EA-197)

Built Heritage and Cultural Landscape Assessment: Dundas Street (Regional Road 5) Improvements from Oak Park Boulevard to Ninth Line (former Trafalgar Township, Halton County), Regional Municipality of Halton, Ontario. (ASI 2003b; ASI File #02HA-03)

In September 2011, ASI submitted a Cultural Heritage Assessment Report containing the existing conditions of the Dundas Street study corridor from Brant Street in Burlington to Trafalgar Road in Oakville. The purpose of this report was to present a built heritage and cultural landscape inventory of cultural heritage resources in the Dundas Street corridor, identify general impacts to identified cultural heritage resources, and propose appropriate mitigation measures when more detailed road improvement plans became available for review. The results of the five previous studies were compiled into this single report. The level of heritage recognition, location and condition of previously identified heritage resources were confirmed through field review and consulting up-to-date municipal heritage inventories. This research was conducted under the project direction of Rebecca A. Sciarra, Cultural Heritage Specialist.

Date: June 7, 2013 Page 2

In February 2013, ASI provided an updated existing conditions memorandum for the study section between Oak Park Boulevard and Neyagawa Boulevard in the Town of Oakville, Ontario. In May 2013, MRC directed ASI to update the existing conditions data with an impact assessment, as contained in this updated memorandum. 2.0 Historical Background – Oak Park Boulevard to Neyagawa Boulevard in the Town of Oakville This section of the Dundas Street EA Study is located in the former Townships of South Trafalgar, between Concessions I South and I North, Lots 14 to 20 (Figure 2). The historic village of Munn’s Corners is located on Lots 15 and 16, situated north of the original limits of the Town of Oakville. Munn’s Corners This settlement is named after the Munn family who had acquired the land to either side of Dundas Street and Sixth Line and had become very active in the affairs of this settlement. Daniel Munn, the family patriarch, was the first township clerk and built the first tavern in the township at this intersection. He also sold a part of his land for use as a local cemetery, and his sons sold additional lands upon which the church and schoolhouse were constructed in 1843 or 1844 (Deeds 526N and 548N). Records from the 1871 Census (Division B2, pp.4-6) show that a few skilled workmen had settled at this community in the nineteenth century. On the north side of Dundas Street, on part Lot 15, was a blacksmith named Hiram Cline as well as a shoemaker named George Elliot. On the opposite side of Sixth Line, on Lot 16 Concession I NDS, there is record of a labourer named Henry Pope and a butcher named William Long. On Lot 16, Concession I SDS, there was an innkeeper named John Wray, and John Appelbe was the Township Clerk. 3.0 Existing Conditions – Oak Park Boulevard to Neyagawa Boulevard in the Town of Oakville The level of heritage recognition of previously identified cultural heritage resources in the study corridor was confirmed by consulting the most recent editions of: the Town of Oakville’s Register of Designated Heritage Properties under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act; the Town of Oakville’s Register of Properties of Cultural Heritage Value or Interest (NOT Designated); and the Town of Oakville’s online interactive mapping. A field review was undertaken by ASI in March 2011 to document the existing conditions of Dundas Street from Brant Street to Trafalgar Road. The results of field review confirmed the location, condition and descriptions of previously identified cultural heritage resources. A subsequent field review was undertaken on February 21st, 2013 to confirm the location, condition and descriptions of previously identified cultural heritage resources between Oak Park Boulevard and Neyagawa Boulevard. Ongoing construction work associated with the wastewater main and forcemain installation made it difficult to view heritage resources located on the north side of Dundas Street East, just west of Oak Park Boulevard. The Dundas Street corridor, between Oak Park Boulevard and Neyagawa Boulevard in the Town of Oakville, is generally comprised of late twentieth-century residential subdivisions to the south of Dundas Street and agricultural fields to the north. A large portion of the agricultural fields north of


Dundas Street and west of Sixth Line are currently being graded for development. A concentration of cultural heritage buildings and landscapes are located at the hamlet of Munn’s Corners. A total of five cultural heritage resources, BHR 16 – BHR 18, and CHL 20 – CHL 21 were identified within the Oak Park Boulevard to Neyagawa Boulevard segment of the corridor (Table 1). One of the properties, BHR 16, is no longer extant as the associated farmhouse has been demolished and the landscape has been removed through grading activities for future development. Demolition of the remains of the farmhouse was approved on April 10th, 2012, and portions of the house were salvaged with the intention that they be incorporated into a new village square to be located nearby. This property has been identified in Table 1 given that it remains, for now, identified as heritage by the Town of Oakville. Please refer to Figures 3 – 5 for location mapping of identified cultural heritage resources. Table 1: Dundas Street EA Study, Oak Park Boulevard to Neyagawa Boulevard – Identified Built Heritage Resources (BHR) and Cultural Heritage Landscapes (CHL) Feature Number, Type and Address

Description/Comments Recognition Photos

BHR 16 Residence 237 Dundas St W, Oakville

Associated with the Kaitting Family of Trafalgar Township. Features a one and a half storey nineteenth-century dwelling with variations of an Ontario Vernacular brick gable roof house. In the fall of 2009, the house suffered from a fire. Only three of the exterior walls were left standing, and the interior was completely destroyed (see lower photograph, taken in March 2011). In April 2012, Oakville Town Council approved a demolition application for the subject Kaitting farmhouse. Communications with the Town of Oakville (February 2013) confirmed that demolition of the remains of the farmhouse was approved on April 10

th, 2012, with the condition that

portions of the house are salvaged and installed in a new village square to be located nearby. Negotiations for a heritage easement agreement associated with these remnants are also underway. The property will be officially de-designated at some point in the future.

Designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. The “Kingsholm/ Kaitting House” BY-LAW: 2009-011 Note: De-designation of this property will take place in the future.

Looking north from Dundas Street (ASI 2008)

Front elevation of house, looking north from Dundas Street (ASI 2011)


Table 1: Dundas Street EA Study, Oak Park Boulevard to Neyagawa Boulevard – Identified Built Heritage Resources (BHR) and Cultural Heritage Landscapes (CHL) Feature Number, Type and Address


BHR 17 Church 5 Dundas St E, Oakville

A Wesleyan Methodist Church congregation was established at Munn’s Corners during the nineteenth century. This church was probably established at a very early date, and services were conducted in the log school house at the hamlet by itinerant Methodist circuit preachers. It is recorded in the abstract index to deeds that Justus Munn sold a parcel of land sixty square rods in extent, being part of Lot 15 Concession 1 NDS, for the use of the church in March 1843 (deed 526N). The church itself was constructed in 1844. It was rebuilt in 1898 in the Gothic Revival style, replete with nine pointed windows, a Palladian style window, brick buttresses and stone window sills. In 1929, a manse was added to the property. In 1977, the sanctuary building (1898) was moved back for road widening, placing its front wall on the rear line of foundation stones and in 1989 a parish hall was added (McIlwraith 1997) and the property was modified significantly. The former foundations remain visible underneath the two coniferous trees in front of the church. This property was designated by the local LACAC in 1989 under By-law 1989-124 under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act.

Designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. BY-LAW: 1989-124 *See Appendix A for a copy of the By-law.

Front elevation of Munn’s Church (ASI 2013)

View showing the existing space between the front of Munn’s Church and Dundas Street, looking east (ASI 2013)

BHR 18 Residence 87 Dundas St E, Oakville

A one and a half storey, nineteenth- century frame farmhouse with central gable dormer, end chimneys, and front porch. Likely retains associations with the agricultural development of Trafalgar Township. In 2012, the property owner demolished the outbuildings associated with this property.

Listed in the Register of Properties of Cultural Heritage Value or Interest (NOT Designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act)

Front elevation (ASI 2011)




CHL 20 Cemetery SE corner of Dundas St and Sixth Line, Oakville

This cemetery was established in November 1820 when Daniel Munn sold a parcel of land measuring 72 perches, or approximately one-quarter acre, at the northwest corner of his farm for £10 (deed 829B, registered July 27, 1822). Additional land was sold to the cemetery trustees by King Henry Munn for $5 in October 1890 (deed 5692S). The first burial in this cemetery has not been recorded although it is thought to be that of Daniel Munn who died sometime in 1822. His tombstone, which stood in this cemetery until around 1953, can no longer be located. A listing of the existing tombstone inscriptions, compiled by the Ontario Genealogical Society, shows that there were at least 200 marked burials in this plot of land (Watt 1984). The cemetery was maintained for a time by the Women’s Institute of Munn’s United Church although it eventually fell into disuse and was neglected for a number of years during the twentieth century. No burials take place in this cemetery today, although it is currently maintained by the Town of Oakville. In March 1993, this cemetery was designated as a property of historical and contextual value and interest under By-Law 1993-21 under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act.

Designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. BY-LAW: 1993-021 *See Appendix A for a copy of the By-law.

View of Munn’s Cemetery, looking southeast (ASI 2006)

CHL 21 Farm complex 41 Dundas St E, Oakville

Comprised of a one and a half storey brick farmhouse with internal chimney and a one storey frame accretion, two barns, mature trees and an agricultural landscape. It is identified on the heritage register as the William Perkins Farm. On November 14, 2012, a Heritage Impact Assessment for Part of Lot 15, Concession 1 North, former Township of Trafalgar, now Town of Oakville, Ontario (Golder 2012) was completed and submitted to Sixth Line Corporation. The proposed Development Plan for the area will result in removal of the subject farmhouse, for which a Heritage Documentation Report prior to removal has been recommended.

Listed in the Register of Properties of Cultural Heritage Value or Interest (NOT Designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act)

Front elevation, looking north (ASI 2011)




Field review in February 2013 confirmed that the house remains extant, but is boarded up and in an advanced state of disrepair.

4.0 Impact Assessment

To assess the potential impacts of the preliminary plan for the proposed improvements on Dundas Street between Oak Park Boulevard and Neyagawa Boulevard, the most current plans (May 15, 2013) were reviewed and identified cultural heritage resources were considered against a range of possible impacts as outlined in the Ministry of Tourism and Culture document entitled Screening for Impacts to Built Heritage and Cultural Heritage Landscapes (September 2010), which include:

Destruction of any, or part of any, significant heritage attribute or feature (III.1). Alteration which means a change in any manner and includes restoration, renovation, repair or

disturbance (III.2). Shadows created that alter the appearance of a heritage attribute or change the visibility of a

natural feature of plantings, such as a garden (III.3). Isolation of a heritage attribute from it surrounding environment, context, or a significant

relationship (III.4). Direct or indirect obstruction of significant views or vistas from, within, or to a built and natural

feature (III.5). A change in land use (e.g. rezoning a battlefield from open space to residential use), allowing

new development or site alteration to fill in the formerly open spaces (III.6). Soil Disturbance such as a change in grade, or an alteration of the drainage pattern or

excavation (III.7) The following table presents potential impacts of the preferred plan on identified cultural heritage resources. Figures 3 - 7 show the preliminary plan for the preferred road design. Table 2: Potential impacts of preferred alignment on identified cultural heritage resources.

Description of potential impacts Recommended Mitigation

BHR 16 No impacts to this resource are expected. No further action is required.

BHR 17 Direct impacts through limited encroachment and property acquisition. Road improvements will result in the removal of trees along the Dundas Street property frontage, and removal of former church foundations. The foundations are remnants of the 1977 church relocation due to a previous road widening.

Given that the property limits of this heritage designated property will be altered, a heritage permit is required. To begin the heritage permit application process, contact Heritage Planning staff and fill out the permit application, available online here: http://www.oakville.ca/business/heritage-permits.html. Heritage permit applications are reviewed by Heritage Planning staff and the Heritage Oakville Committee at monthly meetings. As part of the heritage permit process, the Town of Oakville may require documentation of the remnant


Figure 1: Location of the study corridor. Base Map: NTS Sheet 30 M/5 (Hamilton-Burlington), edition 20, 1999

Figure 2: Location of the study corridor on historic mapping. Base Map: 1877 Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of Halton


Figure 3: Location of Built Heritage Resources (BHR) and Cultural Heritage Landscapes (CHL) [Basemap Date: 2011].






Figure 6: Location of BHR 17 (Munn’s Church) and CHL 20 (Munn’s Cemetery) in proximity to the proposed

Dundas Street right-of-way.


Figure 7: Location of CHL 21 (property to the left) and BHR 18 (property to the right) showing proximity to the proposed Dundas Street right-of-way.


APPENDIX A:

Municipal Designation By-Laws under the Ontario Heritage Act: The Corporation of the Town of Oakville By-Law 1989-124 (Munn’s United Church)

The Corporation of the Town of Oakville By-Law 1993-21 (Munn’s Cemetery)









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