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2021 Art Contest
Celebrating The Group of Seven Centenary
Many thanks to the artists who participated in te 2021 Art Contest.
Local participation added to our First Event, celebrating the centnary of the Group of Seven
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About The Foundation
The Thornhill Heritage Foundation was founded in 2009 to own and maintain assets deemed to be of significant heritage, historic, cultural importance, or of major financial value. Our current proerty is:
Robert West Heritage House
7780 Yonge Street (entrance off Old Yonge Street) L4J 1W3
About The Robert West House
The Robert West Heritage House, as 7780 Yonge Street is known, is the only house in Thornhill to be continuously inhabited by the same family since it was built. Robert Arthur West (1816 - 1884), an English immigrant, came to Upper Canada in the 1830s.
About Mrs. Keith
Katherine Louisa Keith (nee West) was born in Toronto in 1912. She was the great grandaughter of Robert West and became his last living descendent.
In 2008, with her advancing age, she decided that the best way to ensure that the house was preserved was to donate it
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