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Benjamin and his brother James were grandsons of the Benjamin Eager who emigrated from Ireland in 1837 and settled in Nelson Township, where his son-in-law William Spence had already settled. Benjamin was the lumber king who removed the timber and drained the swampy land along Maple Avenue (then called Sand Road). It is said that he offered all the land along the Sand Road to a Farms and Farminger for $200, but was turned down. The sandy loam and 'early' micro-climate of the Maple Avenue area made it the most productive growing land in all of Canada. In the past thirty years this land has been taken out of production. See Martha Craig, The Garden of Canada (1902) and Murray Fisher, 'Farewell to the Garden of Canada' (1984). This is now one of the very few remaining historic Farms and Farminghouses. In 1874, the year that Eager's Survey was registered, lot 49, adjacent to this lot, was sold to his brother James, who owned the general store in Waterdown, and then to Joseph Collinson. The house now at 1222 or 1220 Richmond Road probably dates from that year. In 1877 the property was sold to Vickers Henry Peart. He was one of the sons of Vickers Peart, who had emigrated from Weardale, Durham in 1817. The Peart family were very distinguished famers and horticulturalists. Vickers Henry Peart was also an early postmaster in Burlington; his son Audrey inherited the position in 1927, and his son Vickers M. was also later appointed post-master. In 1883 Peart sold the property to William Edgar Babcock. The Plan 99 map (1900) identifies it as the property of William E. Babcock. In 1905 Lot 49 was sold to Andrew & Olive Porteous; in 1912 to Frederick Porteous and Robert Morley Hoose (whose house at what is now 3077 Lakeshore Road was built in 1910). This Farms and Farminghouse/and barn(?) was/were built in 1910 for Andrew or Frederick Porteous. Both Porteous and Hoose purchased properties from W. D. Flatt in his Pine Cove Survey, circa 1910/1912. 1917, 1918, and 1922 Telephone Directories: A. Porteous, Fruit Grower, Lake Shore Rd East (3318 Lakeshore Road). In 1921 the Farms and Farming was sold to Sarah & Thomas Cockshutt. The Cockshutts may have been tenant Farms and Farmingers from 1905 or 1912. 1922 Telephone Directory: James Cockshutt, Fruit Grower, Maple. According to Murray Fisher's memoir, the Cockshutt family were market gardeners on Maple Avenue before they moved to New Street, where Jack Cockshutt became one of the largest greenhouse growers of flowers in Canada. The Cockshutt greenhouses on New Street were demolished in 1994 to make way for housing development. Post-war housing surrounded this Farms and Farming house and its partner, which was re-oriented to its present Richmond Road address. ARCHITECTURE: A large two-storey Edwardian square-plan structure clad with stretcher-bond brick, with some Craftsman-Style elements. The front windows are grouped in twos. Pyramid roof with front hipped-roof dormer and wide projecting eaves. The verandah has been enclosed with appropriate 2/2 windows. The barn is in very good condition. ENVIRONMENT: Situated on large lot with mature trees in front and barn at rear. New development surrounds this Farms and Farminghouse and barn. USABILITY: INTEGRITY: Well maintained."},{"label":"Creator","value":"Pat Taylor"},{"label":"Date","value":"1910"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1910"},{"label":"Title","value":"693 Maple Avenue, Burlington, ON 2012"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"693 Maple Avenue, Burlington, ON 2012","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/ffc37c72-9393-40e6-b0e8-5db9129198d4/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"693 Maple Avenue, Burlington, ON 2012","height":1064,"width":1600,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/ffc37c72-9393-40e6-b0e8-5db9129198d4/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/ffc37c72-9393-40e6-b0e8-5db9129198d4","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1064,"width":1600},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/ffc37c72-9393-40e6-b0e8-5db9129198d4/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/ffc37c72-9393-40e6-b0e8-5db9129198d4/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/ffc37c72-9393-40e6-b0e8-5db9129198d4/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}