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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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Pictures of the Robert West House

Thornhill was founded in 1794. Its first settlers on Yonge Street in Thornhill were Asa Johnson (who settled on the Vaughan side) and Nicholas Miller (who settled on the Markham side). Of particular importance was the arrival of Benjamin Thorne in 1820, who was operating a gristmill, a sawmill, and a tannery in the community. The settlement came to be known as Thorne's Mills, and later, Thorne's Hill, from which its current name is derived. More

 


 

 

 

Thornhill Event Centre at 7780 Yonge Street,

 

Robert West Heritage House

 

 

 

 

  


 

Events

(sponsored by THF)

Exhibit 3 and Open House

Thornhill's Westside Stories: The Store - The House - The Family

Saturdays & Sundays 11 am - 2 pm from September 9 to October 15 2023

 

Pick A Picket Fundraiser - 2022 

We are pleased to announce that the new picket fence along Yonge Street has been installed.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 






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