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{{Infobox historic site
| name = Scadding Cabin
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| image = Scadding Cabin - CNE Grounds, Toronto (September 1 2005).jpg
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| location = Alberta Circle, [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| built = 1794
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| current_use = Museum
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| governing_body = [[York Pioneers]]
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| map_caption = Cabin location
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'''Scadding Cabin''' (or '''Simcoe Cabin''') is a 1794 [[log cabin]] on the grounds of [[Exhibition Place]] in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada. It was constructed for [[John Scadding]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.yorkpioneers.com/plaques/ | title=Plaques – York Pioneer and Historical Society }}</ref> and is now the [[List of oldest buildings and structures in Toronto|oldest surviving building in Toronto]].<ref name=pioneers>{{cite web|url=http://www.yorkpioneers.com/scadding-cabin/|title=The Scadding Cabin|publisher=York Pioneer and Historical Society|accessdate=31 August 2016}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Canadian National Exhibition grounds- Scadding Cabin, 1903, which was moved to this site by York Pioneer and Historical Society (I0026449).jpg|thumb|Canadian National Exhibition grounds: Scadding Cabin, 1903, which was moved to this site by York Pioneer and Historical Society, 1903]]
The cabin was originally built on the property of John Scadding, an immigrant from [[Devon]]shire, in order to fulfill his settlement duties to the Crown. The cabin stood at the east side of the [[Don River (Ontario)|Don River]] south of [[Queen Street (Toronto)|Queen Street]] East on a 253-acre land grant that stretched north from Lake Ontario to present-day Danforth Avenue. Scadding lived in the cabin until he returned to England in 1796.<ref name=plaque>{{cite web|title=Scadding Cabin Historical Plaque|url=http://torontoplaques.com/Pages/Scadding_Cabin1.html|website=torontoplaques.com|accessdate=31 August 2016|archive-date=20 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920192226/http://torontoplaques.com/Pages/Scadding_Cabin1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

When Scadding returned to York in 1818, he sold his property, and cabin, to a farmer named William Smith, who used the cabin as an outbuilding. The cabin remained in the Smith family until 1879 when the cabin was offered to the [[York Pioneers]]. [[Henry Scadding]], son of John Scadding, was a founding member of the historical society.
[[File:York Pioneers Cabins & Cairn 1880.jpg|thumb|left|Scadding Cabin at its new location in [[Exhibition Place]], June 1880.]]
In 1879 John Smith, the owner of the Scadding property, gave Scadding Cabin to the York Pioneers. In 1879, the Toronto Industrial Exhibition began (later the [[Canadian National Exhibition]] (CNE) ) and the York Pioneers worked with the Exhibition's founders to move the Cabin to its current site to celebrate the Fair's inauguration. The cabin was dismantled, moved and reconstructed by the York Pioneers on the grounds of the first Industrial Exhibition (now Exhibition Place) on August 22, 1879 near the site of [[Fort Rouillé]].<ref name=pioneers/>

===Current use===
The York Pioneers currently operate Scadding Cabin as a museum. The Scadding Cabin is furnished as a pioneer home from the 1830s to early 1840s, although there are artifacts that date back to the 1790s. The oldest item is a baby's cradle, made by Scadding. Furnishings include two spinning wheels and a wool winder, equipment for making bread and butter, a candle mould, and utensils for cooking on an open hearth.

Scadding Cabin is open during the CNE, held each year from mid-August to the end of the Canadian Labour Day weekend.<ref name=plaque /> The cabin is also open through special arrangements and for community events during the summer months such as Toronto's Doors Open. In the past, the cabin has been open during the Luminato Festival and annual CHIN picnic when these events are held at Exhibition Place.

In 2022, rot was found in one of the main log timbers. The York Pioneers raised funds and made repairs to the Cabin in 2023.

==See also==
* [[List of oldest buildings and structures in Toronto]]
* [[Fort Rouillé]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.yorkpioneers.com York Pioneer and Historical Society Website]
* [http://acotoronto.ca/show_building.php?BuildingID=3349 John Scadding Cabin on TOBuilt]

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[[Category:City of Toronto Heritage Properties]]
[[Category:Former post office buildings]]
[[Category:Museums in Toronto]]
[[Category:National Historic Sites in Ontario]]
[[Category:Philatelic museums]]
[[Category:Philately of Canada]]
[[Category:Postal history of Canada]]
[[Category:Post office buildings in Canada]]
[[Category:History of Toronto]]
[[Category:Houses in Toronto]]
[[Category:Log houses in Canada]]
[[Category:Federal government buildings in Ontario]]

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