Deja Views: Never mind the crumpled Plymouth from 1971, that’s the Ashbridge Estate in the background

By DAVID VAN DYKE

The photo above of a fender bender at Connaught Avenue and Queen Street East was taken in 1971. We don’t know the photographer’s name.

But never mind the crumpled white Plymouth, check out what’s behind: East Toronto’s original estate!

The Ashbridge house was built in the mid 1800s. The Ashbridge family were English Quakers from Pennsylvania who settled in East Toronto area in 1793.

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