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Joseph Shepard

Photos and transcription by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted April, 2011

Inside this building at 4900 Yonge Street at Elmhurst Avenue, at the main floor elevator bay, can be found this plaque. Here's what it tells us:

Coordinates: 43.763280 -79.412833

The Joseph Shepard Building is named after one of York's first settlers. Joseph Shepard was a fur trader, an outstanding pioneer who helped build some of the first houses in this area when York was formed in 1793. He later owned extensive farmlands where this building now stands, sawmills at Bathurst Street and was renowned for his active support of reform politics. Joseph Shepard died shortly before the Rebellion of 1837, and is buried at St. John's Anglican Church, York Mills. His sons Thomas and Joseph continued their father's business ventures near the site of this building.

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