The Museum is open Saturday from 11 am - 5 pm, .and the occasional Sunday from 1-4pm.Also other days for special events. Experience Spring at the cottage.

Embroiderers! Come in to the Tollkeeper’s Cottage on Saturday April 14 or April 21 where you can purchase nearly new needlework books, patterns, embroidery floss, and fabric at reasonable prices, to benefit the museum.

The Cottage will have a table at the Environment Day at the Wychwood Barns Sunday 15 April. Please stop by and say hi..

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the
Tollkeeper's Cottage
The oldest structure
of its kind in Canada - now
a museum about tolls, roads,
and nineteenth century life
owned, restored and operated
by the
Community History Project
(now a charitable organization).

Located at the corner of
Bathurst St. and Davenport Rd.
(Toronto, ON)
in The Tollkeeper's Park.



Community groups can use the space for meetings also

Look for the Blue Canoe near our commemorative birch trees. Thanks to the wonderful people at City of Toronto Parks Department, the David Suzuki Foundation, and the Mississaugas of the New Credit for making this possible.


Educational class tours (in English
or French)
or Educational adult tours can be arranged. (teachers and administrators may wish to print out the brochures referenced)


There are gift-type items for sale at the museum such as: maple syrup, books on local history, hand-made pure soap, apple syrup and apple butter, and other recipe collections.

We have Tollkeeper's Cottage Tee shirts for sale
We have just started selling hand-made dolls' clothes suitable for American Girl and other 18 inch dolls.
Watch yarn being spun by a spinner in period dress! Volunteers wanted

See a video tour and a virtual tour of the Cottage