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Landmarks of Municipal Government The end could be near for another landmark of municipal government. The CIBC bank branch in Birchcliff is closing in June 2003. Built in 1919, the upper storey was used for over 20 years by the Township Municipal government. Robert McCowan was Scarborough Township Reeve during some of those earliest years in the building, 1923-25. Miss Palk, his part-time assistant, remembered that Mr. McCowan would not sign a cheque unless he knew all of the precise details.
Scarboro Township Council, 1925
From The Scarboro Heights Record V11 #3 Burrows Hall This reference material regarding Scarborough's first Town Hall was submitted by the McCowan Society to the Toronto Lost Historic Sites Project in the summer of 2000. I will upload other McCowan Society submissions in upcoming issues. (The actual Project report is presently confidential, so I am only uploading submitted details that are not sensitive.) I understand that a book will be published in 2002.
Name of Historic Site: Woburn Hotel and Scarborough Town Hall / Burrows Hall Site Category: Inns and Hotels Location: Markham Road and Painted Post Road (the old Danforth) in Woburn Village (NW). Current Use: Commercial Historical Description and Significance Woburn Inn built about 1845. A hall above the Inn's driveshed was the very modest meeting place of Scarborough Council from 1850 until 1921, or for almost half of the municipality's autonomous existence (1850-1997). Scarborough Fair was frequently held at Woburn Inn. Inkeepers included Dowswell, Burrows and Johnston. Relative Importance The drive-shed and Burrow's Hall are significant as the very humble centre of municipal decision-making for such a lengthy period. Planning Implications Note: Plaque erected by Scarborough Historical Society in 1976. Reference Sources
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