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Photograph only"},{"label":"Description","value":"Plan 111 Lot 4 before 1915 A. 76 The Edwin Thorpe Retirement House HISTORY: Built before 1915 as a retirement house for Edwin Thorpe. 1915 Voters List: Edwin Thorpe, Gentleman, 4 Locust 1916 Sewerage Works Plan: Ed Thorpe 1919 Voters List: Edwin Thorpe, Gentleman, and Mrs Thorpe, MW, lot 4, Locust 1922 Telephone Directory: E. J. Thorpe, Locust 1924 GOAD Map: 7 Birch Avenue 1927 Voters List: Edwin Thorpe, Gentleman, & Bessie Thorpe, 4 Birch The 7 August 1929 Gazette Documented that Charles Thorpe, son of Mr & Mrs E. J. Thorpe on Locust St., had been appointed manager of the Dominion Bank, Gage Avenue, Hamilton, and that the Thorpes would move to Hamilton. 1932 Burlington Directory: Edwin & Elsie (sic) Thorpe, 7 Birch According to Turcotte, Memories of Pioneer Days, pp. 180 - 1, Edwin Thorpe was born in 1848 in Lands End, England. On board ship, emigrating to Canada, he met Elizabeth Anderson, en route to meeting her parents in Palermo. Thorpe moved to Hamilton and found employment as a gardener and teamster for the Hendrie family. Elizabeth was employed as a maid in the Hendrie household. They saved their earnings and in 1877 married and purchased a Farms and Farming on the Plains Road, where St Matthews Church now stands. In 1887 they bought part of the John Collinson Farms and Farming on Maple Avenue. In \"Farewell to the Garden of Canada\" (1984), pp. 25 - 26, Murray Fisher comments: It is doubtful if there is any measured mile of soil in Canada more productive than Maple Avenue... In addition to [its] natural productivity, ... in my time there was a breed of growers hard to beat for their love of the soil and for their industry in their occupation. As well as the men, whole families entered into the daily work at harvest time and every one seemed to take pleasure in maintaining the reputation of their community as an ideal garden of Canada. It is with great regret ... that this great natural asset of our country ... should be lost forever to the unquenchable desire to cover choice land with cement and macadam. Within a few miles there is land that is replaceable but that fact has been ignored in the scramble for dollars... Thorpes - Edmund [sic] the father, followed by sons Percy and George and grandsons Murray Allan, George and Harold, established a reputation heard to beat as expert fruit and vegetable growers for nearly 75 years on Maple Ave. Owing to pressure from the town and developers this family are out of business here. ARCHITECTURE: A two-storey Edwardian vernacular structure clad with stretcher-bond brick. Low hipped roof. The corner verandah has a low slightly curved roof, boxed cornice, and moulded frieze supported by Doric columns. and a plain balustrade. Two two-level semi-octagonal bays: one on the Birch Avenue elevation and another on the Locust Avenue side. ENVIRONMENT: Situated on a corner lot with a large garden. Original garage. USABILITY: . INTEGRITY: Aluminum eaves in 1990. Replacement storm windows. Deck at the rear on the Birch Street side."},{"label":"Creator","value":"Pat Taylor"},{"label":"Date","value":"1905"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1905"},{"label":"Title","value":"1454 Birch Avenue, Burlington"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"1454 Birch Avenue, Burlington","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/77c10a91-b1ec-444f-a6df-6ec2e86085ab/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"bhs_204932-1","height":533,"width":800,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/9b858516-f074-4aff-a4ec-28bb44ab4080/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/9b858516-f074-4aff-a4ec-28bb44ab4080","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2]}]},"height":533,"width":800},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/77c10a91-b1ec-444f-a6df-6ec2e86085ab/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/9b858516-f074-4aff-a4ec-28bb44ab4080/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/77c10a91-b1ec-444f-a6df-6ec2e86085ab/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"bhs_204932-2","height":533,"width":800,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/6a627fa8-83e9-4ad0-b984-89c115e8e999/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/6a627fa8-83e9-4ad0-b984-89c115e8e999","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2]}]},"height":533,"width":800},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/77c10a91-b1ec-444f-a6df-6ec2e86085ab/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/6a627fa8-83e9-4ad0-b984-89c115e8e999/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/9b858516-f074-4aff-a4ec-28bb44ab4080/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}