HISTORY Baby Point's rich history dates back to the 1600's when it was a prosperous Seneca
Nation village known as Teiaiagon. The Seneca people found Teiaiagon to be the
perfect location for conducting their fur trading activities as this high peninsula
of land located in a bend of the Humber River, was easily defended from attack.
The Seneca village had long since been abandoned
when in 1816 the Honourable James Baby settled on this peninsula
of land overlooking the Humber River. The present day neighbourhood
is named after Baby, a member of a prominent Quebec fur trading
family and a former politician in Upper Canada. Baby's settlement
was a virtual Garden of Eden. A lush apple orchard occupied
much of the land, and salmon swam in the Humber River. There
was even a spring of fresh water that flowed from the hillsides.
This water was bottled and shipped around the world.
Baby's heirs continued
to live in Baby Point until 1910 when the government acquired Baby Point with
the intention of establishing a military fortress and army barracks on this site.
As fate would have it the government changed their plans and sold Baby Point to
developer Robert Home Smith who began developing the Baby Point subdivision in
1912.
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