Pickering historian John Sabean said the Turner-Winger house was built in the 1860s or 1870s, possibly earlier. "It's what we call 'Ontario classic,'" he said of the brick, central-gable, storey-and-a-half home. The home sat on land expropriated by the federal government in 1972 for a possible airport, which hasn't been decided on yet. Since then, residents have been renting from the government, and many homes have been vacated and boarded up over time. You can see it here before it was vandalized.
The government has been demolishing the airport land houses one by one. This is a sad case where someone has beat them to it.
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