Ontario, Canada
The city of Toronto may have grown ever closer during the 100 years since the Summit Golf Club was founded but this 260-acre property remains a refuge from the hustle and bustle of an outside world...
The city of Toronto may have grown ever closer during the 100 years since the Summit Golf Club was founded but this 260-acre property remains a refuge from the hustle and bustle of an outside world...
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Becoming a golf course architect after the First World War was perfect timing for Stanley Thompson. Canada’s golf courses numbered around 130 in 1918, rising to more than 350 seven years later.
The Thompson family (James and Jeanie and their two children, along with Jeanie’s parents and other members of the McCron family) emigrated from Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland to Canada in 1882. Not long after they arrived in Toronto, the Grand Trunk Railway opened a new freight and repair yard on the east side of the city, offering employment to James. His family soon expanded, with Stanley becoming the seventh of nine surviving children.
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