Built 1928 for G.E.H. and Gertrude Booth, profession President - Mining Company, Cobalt, Ontario. (La Rose Silver mine). "Kingsway Park, Triumph in Design" has a whole section on the purchase and construction of this house, with many contemporary photographs. The building lot cost $6,500, and the house $20,703 to build in 1928. Originally to the right (south) of the house was a pond large enough for a small row boat but erosion caused by water draining from Queen Mary's Drive undermined the retaining wall and today the old pond area is treed ravine bank.

Reroofed with cedar around 2002. I hate to think what that cost, probably more than the original price to build the house itself.

Today the house and property are worth many millions of dollars, sited as it is on the west bank of the Humber River overlooking the ravine.