Nestled in the Niagara Escarpment and filled with heritage buildings, Dundas may be the most beautiful heritage town in Ontario
It’s just a theory, but I think that in prehistoric times, one was either a hill person or a valley person. Hill people bragged about vantage points and clean air, while valley people boasted of shelter and better soil. And both were right.
It helped that my guide, Shannon Kyles, a retired architectural history teacher at Mohawk College and creator of the website, is as much a cheerleader for the area – she lives in nearby Greensville – as I am for Toronto. And, further, that our moods were much improved by the sun finally showing its glorious, golden face after what seemed like three weeks of solid rain.
“That was restored by Alan Stacey,” Ms. Kyles said of the façade. No. 24 caught Ms. Kyles’s eye – ”You’re not going to find a better bell-cast roof anywhere,” she offered – as did the drip-like trim falling from the gable of No. 7. Next, we popped into the old Carnegie Library, now an art gallery, saved in the mid-70s and again in 2005 by Dundas Art and Craft Association , and then the old buff brick, 1920s Majestic movie theatre, which has been a bulk food store for four decades.
“And by getting a heritage district, you’re also saying ‘here are the rules, you can’t mess with this,’” adds Ms. Kyles.
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