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Bill Walton was one of the last to farm in the Bendale area. His family farm was in the centre of Scarborough and became the location of the Scarborough Civic Centre and Town Centre development.

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Bill Walton, retired farmer on left with Barry Wickware at Scarborough Historical Museum
2002
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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Bill Walton on the lap of his mother, Margaret Edith Walton.
1920
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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My name is William G. Walton. My age is 84, I'll be 85 in a few weeks.

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Bill Walton's farm house at Brimley and Ellesmere
1920
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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"There's a picture of the farmhouse on the wall, lot 24 Concession 2, Township of Scarborough. [Now the site of Scarborough Civic Centre] I remember my Dad ordering something from the city and he'd say one mile east of Ellesmere off the Kennedy Road and that was where our farm was".

-Bill Walton

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Walton farmhouse
1921
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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"It was a one storey house and, of course, it had no heating. I think my father put a furnace in it and then he remodelled it and built a second story on it. [It was built in] 1854 and he remodelled it in 1926. It was owned by a man named Elliott, I don't know the first name, but he evidently sold the north half. It was all one farm, 200 acres from Ellesmere up to Sheppard and he sold 90 acres to one of his sons and my great grandfather bought the south 115 acres".

- Bill Walton

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Walton farmhouse following renovations
1926
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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Bill Walton as a young child on the farm
1923
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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Bill Walton on the farm
1921
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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Bill Walton on front porch
1922
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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Young Bill Walton, standing outside his family home, sporting a band uniform hat and clutching a coronet. The hat and coronet are two of various family treasures that Bill has donated to the Scarborough Historical Museum. They were used in the Malvern Band circa 1919 by Bill's father, John Walton. Malvern, like Bendale, was one of the many crossroads communities that made up early Scarborough.

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Walton coronet
1919
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada