www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, April 2 7 , 2 0 1 7 | 34 Glen Abbey sold to OlubUnk for approxim ately $ 4 0 M in 1 9 9 9 continued from p.12 Thompson Smith, who owned part of Lot 18, which stretched across Sixteen Mile Creek, appears to have been the most prominent early settler associated with Glen Abbey lands. He is commemorated in the naming of the Smith-Triller Viaduct, listed as a lumber merchant in an 1851 census. Smith purchased parts of lots 18 and 19 in 1830, and around 1836, he built a sawmill on Sixteen Mile Creek on Lot 18, along with an access road running through his property between the mill and Upper Middle Road. The property houses the Raydor Estate, listed in the Town' s Phase 2 draft report, and purchased in March 1937 by Dorfman. He assembled portions of the land and developed a country estate of 141 hectares (350 acres) that he named RayDor. The estate received a full landscape treatment and included a long, tree-lined entrance drive, formal and walled-gardens, imported trees, extensive perennial plantings and a road connecting the estate house to the stables. The house is a grand, three-storey French eclectic residence formatted as a neo-classical building from the front and a Tudor revival and arts and crafts facility from the back. Dorfman retained the property until its sale to the Jesuits in 1953. In 1963, a multi-million-dollar country club and residential development was planned on the large country estate, formerly owned by Dorfman, and situated close to the hub of Oakville. WG. Findlay of Oakville, president of Clearstream Developments Limited, publiclystated Howard Watson, a Canadian golf course architect, agreed to design an 18-hole championship golf course. Plans were also in place to add areas for curling, swimming, tennis and skiing. Following the construction of the golf course, the plan was for Clearstream to build homes on the perimeter of the golf course and the upper levels overlooking Sixteen Mile Creek. Almost immediately after the golf course was completed, members tried to buy the club land from Clearstream. In 1966, John Bailey, president of RobertsonYates Corporation Limited, took control of Clearstream Developments Limited to retain ownership. The golf course became a separate entity owned by Clearstream until it was purchased by Great Northern Capital in 1974. Clearstream started the club developments promptly under the name Upper Canada Golf and Country Club, which reopened in 1967 as the Clearstream Club. In 1974, Rod McIsaac, owner of Great Northern Capital, bought the property and reached an agreement with the Royal Canadian Golf Association (RCGA) to redevelop the Upper Canada Golf Club as a spectator-oriented venue for the Canadian Open. The RCGA leased the RayDor house for its headquarters and golf museum from 1975 until 1983, when it purchased the club property. The RCGA contract set out a plan to have the course redesigned by golf legend Jack Nicklaus, which he did, in 1974-75, and then held its hrst Canadian Open in 1977. Prior to its construction, the competition moved from course to course each year. The RCGA purchased the property in 1983 and continued to maintain Glen Abbey as a venue for the tournament from 1980 onwards. In 1999, Glen Abbey was sold to current property owners ClubLink for approximately $40 million. In addition to an 18-hole golf course, the Dorval Drive grounds contain surface parking, a clubhouse and ancillary buildings (including former outbuildings and Raydor Estate house, altered and expanded to include a golf museum). Present-day land use around the golf course includes low-density residential subdivisions bordering Dorval Drive, to the south and west, Upper Middle Road and the Smith-Triller Viaduct to the north, as well as low-density residential subdivisions to the east, on the lands east of the Sixteen Mile Creek valley. a v o id d r a g g in g y o u r f a m il y th r o u g h D IV O R C E c o u r t . Lower the emotional damage on everyone now, before it's too late. m e d i a t i o n Choose the civilized way to separate. Stop fighting, start moving forward. Save thousands ... and stay out of court. 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