Soules Inn, 8038 Yonge St, ca. 1980s
The Soules Inn, located at 8038 Yonge Street, is the next feature for #AAW2025. Originally a private home, this brick building was constructed in 1830 for David Soules. For many years it served Thornhill as its finest hotel, and has been referred to as "Soules Inn", "Mansion House,” “Royal Hotel", and “Mrs. Christian’s Temperance Hotel”. The spacious yard and barns also served as a stopping point for stagecoaches as they travelled between Holland Landing and Toronto, until a Metropolitan Railway extension was built in 1896. It became a nursing home in 1970, before being designated as a heritage property in 1983. It is one of the few surviving structures from the original village of Thorne’s Hill.
City of Vaughan Archives: MG 18
Soules Inn, 8038 Yonge St, ca. 1980s
The Soules Inn, located at 8038 Yonge Street, is the next feature for #AAW2025. Originally a private home, this brick building was constructed in 1830 for David Soules. For many years it served Thornhill as its finest hotel, and has been referred to as "Soules Inn", "Mansion House,” “Royal Hotel", and “Mrs. Christian’s Temperance Hotel”. The spacious yard and barns also served as a stopping point for stagecoaches as they travelled between Holland Landing and Toronto, until a Metropolitan Railway extension was built in 1896. It became a nursing home in 1970, before being designated as a heritage property in 1983. It is one of the few surviving structures from the original village of Thorne’s Hill.
City of Vaughan Archives: MG 18