A southern Ontario town was selected to be the site of a new plant that will build EV car batteries. Good for the environment right? Local farmers however felt that the land could have been used for agricultural purposes. The town purchased lots of land for between $65,000 to $150,000 per acre. House #1 This house is known as the Van Patter Home, named for the family that lived in it for most of the 20th century. The house was built in 1872 by the Gilbert family. Brothers Mathew and William Gilbert hired a contractor named Auckland to build houses…

I found this property while taking an unexpected route in Southern Ontario. There are several outbuildings in addition to the house. From my brief research, I learned that it belonged to a religious farmer. The property is for sale for close to $4,000,000. The house itself has a distinct raccoon poop smell and I suspect there are a few active hornet nests outside.The name of the location comes from a notice on the rear door that was likely to indicate that the family used to sell cheese from their house.The photos were taken with an Android phone. Poltergeists tampered with…

I can’t give away too many details on this property just yet. This was a quick in and out visit.

This elegant looking house was a bit of a disappointment. Initially I was only able to see through the windows of the secured house, but I knew if I kept trying that it would one day be open. Such was the case on my last road trip when I stopped in and tried the garage door. One of the signs that there might be a way inside this time, was seeing through the windows that much of the baseboard trim had been removed and stacked, and the kitchen island was gone. As I explored the interior, I was impressed to…

This house was purchased by a development company with the intention to build townhouses. In a somewhat ironic turn of events, the past owner of this house led a petition by area residents to oppose new townhouses on the other side of her street. As the petition was made around 2021, this house has been vacant for no more than three years. In the bedroom I discovered a box filled with hundreds of photographs from Ontario vacations taken in the early 2000’s. The oldest item found was a newspaper dated 1980. Given the vibrant wallpaper, I’m thinking this was the…

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.

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…

This house was built in 1952. In 2016, it sold for $1.1 million. In 2018, a capital company acquired the property utilizing a mortgage taken out through Building Development and Mortgages Canada. They planned to build a new subdivision on the land along with two other adjacent properties that were purchased. The town committee would not allow primary road access from the main road to the proposed development which meant that access would have to come from the north. In January of 2021 the borrower listed the properties for sale citing that they had no funds to continue with the…