HomeMy WebLinkAbout292"Article copied from the Pickering News, November 4, 1993, page 10.
By PAM PRYJMA
Special to the News Advertiser
PICKERING VILLAGE - On Dec. 26, 1832, William Hartrick Sr. purchased 200 acres on the
north side of Old Kingston Rd. where Pickering Village now stands. A magistrate for Ontario
County, he was a man of influence, and financially ""comfortable"". With his wife Phoebe,
he built their family's home in the Village of Duffins Creek in 1843.
William and Phoebe had one son and two daughters who survived childhood. Mr. Hartrick twice
took mortgages out against the family home, once in January 1845, and again in July 1852,
to build homes on his property for each of his children. The latter mortgage in 1852, was for the
construction of a frame house for his son, William Jr. This dwelling still stands on the southwest
corner of Rossland Rd. and Church St., and is often referred to as the Frost House.
It will be incorporated into the future residential development.
William Hartrick Sr. died in 1874. His will clearly describes how the land was to be divided
among his children after his wife's death. Phoebe must have released the land to her children
prior to her death in 1882, for the 1877 County of Ontario Atlas shows each child owning and
living on their parcels of land.
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