Wendy and I were surfing tonight and we found this history of our neighborhood while looking at some city history pages. It was kind of interesting.
The Mayfair subdivision is one of the oldest in Saskatoon outside of the original three settlements of Nutana, Saskatoon and Riversdale. Part of the land originally granted to the Temperance Colonization Society in 1882, it was in private hands by the time Saskatoon was incorporated as a City in 1906 and was first identified on a map of Saskatoon in 1907, during the height of the city’s first real estate boom.
The first lots were sold that year and the first houses began to be built, primarily along 33rd Street. By 1909 there were nearly 60 houses in Mayfair – at that time still outside of city limits – with a population estimated at around 350. On April 20, 1911, the City expanded, annexing land to the north as far as 38th St. Mayfair was finally “in”.
When Wendy and I moved in, there was a huge 1930′s era deep freeze in the basement that was bigger than any of the doors in our house. Apparently they used to build the basement and then drop the deep freeze in and then build the house around it. (yeah, I found that hard to believe too)
