Monthly archives: April, 2024

Sound the Alarm – Vacant Public School

In 2017 the school board that this school falls under, announced that the school would close after the 2022 year. The students would be sent to a newly built school (built at a cost of $9 million). The school board had been having difficulty finding land for the new school and had been considing reopening this one.The cost to reopen would be approximately $900,000 for furniture, $670,000 for expenses and approximately $500,000 for a new sewer system. It currently remains locked up and the alarm is on. It’s a popular location for people to walk their dogs. On my visit…


Italian Baker’s Abandoned $15 Million Mansion

The HistoryIn the year 1930, Guido Cinelli was born In Italy. He emigrated to Canada in 1953 with nothing more than $25 to his name and some clothes. Guido found work in a bakery that employed four other employees. Guido worked 110 hours per week and allegedly slept on skids of flour in the bakery. Over the next two decades years, Guido worked his way up to the position of master baker. He helped grow the bakery into one of the largest in Canada.By the time Guido was 41 years old, he’d started his own company distributing bakery equipment in…


$3.7 Million Toronto House – Not Abandoned

This house is situated in Toronto and was built in 1994, a year after the land was purchased. The owner sold it around 2000 and the home went through three more sales before the final sale which took place in August 2022 for $3.7 million. The house has five bedrooms and seven bathrooms.The master bedroom features a bathroom with a walk in shower, tub, two sinks and a fireplace. The bedroom also has two walk in closets. This location made its way around the urbex scene in spring of 2024. Some explorers called it ‘abandoned’ which was a stretch of…


Four Bedroom Bore – Abandoned House

Not much to say about this house other than it was purchased by a development company and will be torn down for new housing. Inside a box are some school binders from someone who was studying in the medical field. The house was demolished in summer 2024.


35mm Slide Show

This property contained a few businesses including a distributor of consumer goods and a mattress store. It’s largely gutted now and most of the contents have been scattered outside. One day I decided to satisfy my curiosity and went inside mainly to shoot some video for you – the viewer. I was inside for approximately 20 minutes when I observed a truck pull up next to my vehicle. The truck had been parked behind a gate, and I commented on the video that I expected I’d be caught. Just before I noticed the truck, I’d found a metal box filled…