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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 

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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. 

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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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EVENT 3

Robert West Heritage House (1843)

visit the House and explore the Exhibition …

The Exhibit will show artifaccts from the Store, House & Family

The House was in the West Family for 4 Generations (1843 - 2008)

 

Thornhill’s Westside Stories: 

The Store - The House - The Family

Saturdays & Sundays

11 am to 2 pm

September 9 to October 15 2023

 

Free entrance

Robert West Heritage House

7780 Yonge Street, Thornhill, Ontario, L4J 1W3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  






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