Cultural Heritage Investigation

Regional Municipality of Halton
APPENDIX F
APPENDIX F
CULTURAL HERITAGE INVESTIGATION
Municipal Class Environmental Assessment Study
Burlington / Oakville Interconnecting Watermain – Zone 1
Environmental Study Report
RVA 081743 / Halton Region PR-2580
Final
October 2011
EXISTING CONDITIONS REPORT: BUILT HERITAGE &
CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPE
PHASE 3 & 4 MUNICIPAL CLASS EA PROCESS AND
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN: HALTON REGION
ZONE 1 INTERCONNECTING WATER MAIN
March 2010
Prepared for:
R.V. Anderson
Associates Limited (RVA)
Prepared by:
EXISTING CONDITIONS REPORT: BUILT HERITAGE
& CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPE
PHASE 3 & 4 MUNICIPAL CLASS EA PROCESS AND
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN: HALTON REGION
ZONE 1 INTERCONNECTING WATER MAIN
March 2010
Prepared for:
R.V. Anderson
Associates Limited (RVA)
2001 Sheppard Avenue East, Suite 400
Toronto, ON, M2J 4Z8
Tel: 416-497-8600
Prepared by:
Unterman McPhail Associates
Heritage Resource Management Consultants
540 Runnymede Road
Toronto, ON., M6S 2Z7
Tel: 416-766-7333
Existing Conditions Report: Built Heritage & Cultural Heritage Landscape
Phase 3 & 4 Municipal Class EA Process and Conceptual Design: Halton Region
Zone 1 Interconnecting Water Main, City of Burlington, Regional Municipality of Halton
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INTRODUCTION
This Existing Conditions Report documents the field survey results and is provided as
information for the study process. A complete Cultural Heritage Resource Assessment
Report (CHAR) with background history, impacts and mitigation will be completed for
the project.
R.V. Anderson Associates Limited retained Unterman McPhail Associates, Heritage
Management Resource Consultants, to undertake a cultural heritage resource assessment
for built heritage and cultural heritage landscapes on behalf of the Regional Municipality of
Halton for the Phase 3 & 4 Municipal Class EA Process and Conceptual Design: Halton
Region Zone 1 Interconnecting Water Main. The project is classified as a Schedule “C”
undertaking in the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (2007).
The Regional Municipality of Halton’s 2008 South Halton Water and Wastewater Master
Plan Update identified several infrastructure projects, which are required to service growth
in the approved urban areas of
Burlington, Oakville, Milton and
the Halton Hills 401 Corridor to
the year 2021, including a
watermain that will supply water
to the Kitchen Reservoir from the
Burloak Water Purification Plant.
This watermain will interconnect
Zone 1 in Burlington with Zone 1
in Oakville and therefore will
require a crossing of Bronte
Creek. Phase 3 of this study will
include an assessment of
alternative routes and alternative
construction methods for the
proposed watermain and
consultation on the preferred
watermain alignment route and
conceptual design. Phase 4 of this
study will include the preparation
of an Environmental Study Report
(ESR) to document the assessment
of the alternatives, including any
potential environmental impacts
and proposed mitigating measures.
Figure 1.
Figure 1. Study Area Map [R.V. Anderson Associates, 2009].
Unterman McPhail Associates
Heritage Resource Management Consultants
March 2010
Existing Conditions Report: Built Heritage & Cultural Heritage Landscape
Phase 3 & 4 Municipal Class EA Process and Conceptual Design: Halton Region
Zone 1 Interconnecting Water Main, City of Burlington, Regional Municipality of Halton
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Located in the Town of Oakville, Alternative 1, Zone 1 runs south from the Kitchen
Reservoir and Pumping Station to Upper Middle Road (Regional Road 38), an unopened
road allowance, where it turns westward and over to Burloak Drive (Regional Road 21).
At Burloak Drive Alternative 1 turns south along Burloak Drive, under the Queen
Elizabeth Way (QEW) and across an at-grade CN Railway line south of Wyecroft Road
to Great Lake Boulevard and southeasterly to Rebecca Street and to the Burloak Water
Pumping Station site on the south side of Rebecca Street.
The consultant undertook a windshield survey of the proposed route for Alternative, Zone
1 on November 9, 2009 to review, identify and map built heritage resources and cultural
heritage landscapes older than 40 years of age within and adjacent to proposed watermain
the Zone 1. Two cultural heritage landscapes were identified, namely, Bronte Creek and
Bronte Creek Provincial Park. Bronte Creek historically supported mill sites in different
locations along its length. Bronte Creek Provincial Park is located on the east side of
Burloak Drive, adjacent to Alternative 1, Zone 1. The Province purchased 200 acres of
land in 1969 and with help of the Honourable James W. Snow the park was created in
1971. It consists of former agricultural land from nine pre-1900 farmsteads and includes
the Spruce Lane Farmhouse (1899) from the George Breckon property (Part Lots 32 and
33, Concession 2 SDS, former Trafalgar Township as shown in the Illustrated Historical
Atlas) as an historic house museum near remaining original apple orchards and a 19th
century barn relocated to the site. Don Hancock, Landscape Architecture, and Macklin
Hancock, Project Planning Associates Ltd planned the landscape. The entrance to the
park campgrounds is from Upper Middle Road and entrance to the day use area is from
Burloak Drive just south of Upper Middle Road. The park is screened by an earthen berm
on the east side of Burloak Drive.
The City of Burlington Directory of Heritage Properties and the Town of Oakville
Register of Properties of Cultural Heritage Value or Interest (Not Designated) and its
Register of Designated Heritage Properties Under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act.
was consulted and there are no municipally designated properties located along the Zone
1 routes within the City of Burlington and the Town of Oakville.
Two municipal addresses on Burloak Drive are included on the Town of Oakville
Register of Properties of Cultural Heritage Value or Interest (Not Designated) for Bronte
Creek Provincial Park, namely, 1219 and 1311, both referring to Bronte Creek Provincial
Park. A farm building is situated at 1219 Burloak Drive in Bronte Creek Provincial Park
and 1311 Burloak Drive is described in the register as being of potential cultural heritage
value due to its natural heritage features, built heritage features and as a cultural heritage
landscape.
Unterman McPhail Associates
Heritage Resource Management Consultants
March 2010
Existing Conditions Report: Built Heritage & Cultural Heritage Landscape
Phase 3 & 4 Municipal Class EA Process and Conceptual Design: Halton Region
Zone 1 Interconnecting Water Main, City of Burlington, Regional Municipality of Halton
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Zone 1 Alternative 1.
Unterman McPhail Associates
Heritage Resource Management Consultants
March 2010
Existing Conditions Report: Built Heritage & Cultural Heritage Landscape
Municipal Class EA Study and Conceptual Design for the Burlington/Oakville
Interconnecting Watermains City of Burlington, Regional Municipality of Halton
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TABLE 1: IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR)
WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO ALTERNATIVE 1, ZONE 1 FOR PROPOSED WATERMAIN
Site #
Resource
Type
Category
Location
Description
1.
CHL
Roadscape
Upper Middle Road
Surveyed road allowance, unopened in middle section,
between Concession 1 and 2 SSDS, former Township
of Trafalgar, The Illustrated Historical map of
Trafalgar Township shows the east end provided
access from Bronte Road to a farmstead on the north
side (Lot 32) and to a residence (Lot 35) on the west
end at the boundary between Trafalgar ad Nelson
Townships.
2.
CHL
Waterscape
Bronte Creek (Lots 31 to
35, Concession 2 SDS,
former Trafalgar
Township)
3.
CHL
Recreational 1219 Burloak Drive,
Town of Oakville, east
side. (Including Part
Lots 32 and 33,
Concession 2 SDS,
former Trafalgar
Township)
Formerly referred to as Twelve Mile Creek, Bronte
Creek provided waterpower to local sawmills along its
length in the 19th century, although not on Lots 31 to
25, Concession 2 SDS. Watercourses were usually
areas of first Euro-Canadian settlement.
Located adjacent to Alternative 1, Zone 1 on the east
side of Burloak Drive, Bronte Creek Provincial Park
opened in 1971 on former farmland including the
George Breckon farmstead.
Noted on the Town of Oakville Register of
Properties of Cultural Heritage Value or Interest
(Not Designated), namely the farm building at 1219
Burloak Drive in Bronte Creek Park and 1311
Burloak Drive, Bronte Provincial Park for it
potential cultural heritage value due to its natural
heritage features, built heritage features and as a
cultural heritage landscape.
Unterman McPhail Associates
Heritage Resource Management Consultants
Photograph/Aerial/Map
See Aerial below
March 2010