In 1848 H.M. Board of Ordnance leased for 999 years all the Reserve west of Garrison Creek to the Corporation of The City of Toronto for a park. Excluded were a wide buffer around the Old and New Forts, the Lunatic Asylum lands, and the site of Farr's Brewery on Queen Street. A mere three years later the Board demanded the surrender of the lease, citing the need for the land to settle military pensioners. The whole sad story is found
here (p2).
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Plan for the Western Park, ca. 1848 by John Howard.
Image courtesy: City of Toronto, Museum Services/Culture Division
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1851 Fleming: Topographical plan of the city of Toronto, in the province of Canada, from actual survey
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