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The Corporation of the Municipality of Clarington
By -Law No. 2018-001
Being a by-law to designate the property known for municipal purposes
as 2020 Lambs Road, Municipality of Clarington as a property of historic
or architectural value or interest under the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O.
1990, Chapter 0.18
Whereas the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O., 1990, c.0.18 authorizes the Council of
the Municipality to enact by-laws to designate properties to be of historic or
architectural value or interest for the purposes of the Act; and
Whereas the Council of the Corporation of the Municipality of Clarington has
caused to be served upon the owner of the property known for municipal purposes
at 2020 Lambs Road, Municipality of Clarington and upon the Ontario Heritage
Foundation, Notice of Intention to Designate the aforesaid real property, and more
particularly the portion shown as Schedule "A" and has caused such Notice of
Intention to be published in the Clarington This Week, a newspaper having general
circulation in the area of the designation on November 22, 2017; and
Whereas the reasons for the designation of the aforesaid property under the
Ontario Heritage Act are contained in Schedule "B" attached to and forming part of
this by-law; and
Whereas the Clarington Heritage Committee has recommended that the property
known for municipal purposes as 2020 Lambs Road, Municipality of Clarington be
designated as a property of historic or architectural value or interest under the
Ontario Heritage Act; and
Whereas no notice of objection to the proposed designation was served upon the
Municipal Clerk within the period prescribed by the Ontario Heritage Act;
Now Therefore the Council of the Corporation of The Municipality of Clarington
hereby enacts as follows:
1. The property known for municipal purposes at 2020 Lambs Road which is
more particularly shown in Schedule "A" which is attached to and forms part of
this by-law, is hereby designated as a property which has historic or
architectural value or interest under Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act,
R.S.O. 1990, c.,0.1The Solicitor for the Municipality of Clarington is hereby
authorized to cause a copy of this by-law to be registered against the title to
the property described in Schedule "A" hereto.
2. The Municipal Clerk is hereby authorized to cause a copy of this by-law to be
served upon the owner of the property described in Schedule "A" hereto and
on the Ontario Heritage Foundation. The Municipal Clerk also is authorized
to cause notice of the passing of this by-law to be published in the Clarington
This Week, a newspaper having general circulation in the area of the
designation.
By-law passed in open session this 15th the day of January, 2018.
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Adrian Foster, Mayor
Schedule A to By-law 2018-001
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Legal Description CON 2 S PT LOTS 7 AND 8 NOW;RP
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Address: 2020 Lamb's Road, Bowmanville
Schedule B to By-law 2018-001
Former Boys Training School and Prisoner of War Camp
2020 Lambs Road, Bowmanville
Statement of Significance and list of character -defining
features
Description of Property
Located at 2020 Lambs Road in Bowmanville, Ontario, the 42.5 ha (105 acre) irregularly
shaped property is bounded by Lambs Road on the east and Concession Street East on
the south, with Soper Creek running through the western portion of the property. The
property contains six structures in an open landscape around an internal road system
that occupies 7.83 ha (19.34 acres).
The buildings that survive and have been identified for designation include the 1925
Jury House (dormitory), the 1925 Dining Hall (cafeteria), the 1927 Kiwanis House
(dormitory), the 1928 Triple Dormitory, the 1929 Gymnasium (natatorium) and the 1937
Hospital/Infirmary.
Statement of Cultural Heritage Value or Interest
The heritage value of the site resides in its collection of distinct structures laid out in a
campus -like plan with ring road, grassy fields, vegetation and mature trees. It is
designated because of its historical/associative, aesthetic/design and contextual values.
The Bowmanville Boys Training School/Camp 30 is of historical significance because of
its long association with the national reform school movements of the early twentieth
century and its significant association with WWII.
The former governmentally -owned and operated training school for boys opened in
1925 on farm lands, some of which were donated by John H.H. Jury, a prominent
businessman in Bowmanville. While juvenile institutions have pejorative connotations
today, the view in the 1920s and 1930s was much different when optimism about reform
through ones environment was high. Under the provincial Training School Act the boys
would receive moral, mental, physical and vocational education in modern facilities. The
Bowmanville site is one of the few juvenile reform schools that were purpose-built in the
interwar period that embodies in its architecture and layout a modern philosophy of
juvenile social reform. A comprehensive survey of Canadian carceral institutions of
1930 concluded that the Bowmanville Boys School was the only one out of 24
institutions in Canada that fulfilled all of the requirements of a thoroughly modern
children's institution.
During World War II the Department of National Defence appropriated the property for
use as a German Prisoner of War detention centre known as Camp 30. The school site
was chosen because of its isolated yet accessible location and because the buildings
on the campus would accommodate a large number of people with minimal intervention.
New structures were erected and there were some changes to the site, including a
perimeter fence with gates and guard towers, and the removal of trees that obscured
surveillance. Nothing remains at the site that was purpose-built to serve internment
operations but the original extant school buildings once functioned as a WWII prisoner
of war detention centre.
Documented attempted escapes from the POW camp include one where the prisoners
dug a tunnel from the triple dormitory under Lambs Road.
A riot in October 1942 resulted in the "Battle of Bowmanville," which lasted three days.
Despite the relatively minor scale of this incident in the context of actual battles fought
during WWII, this event has garnered public attention across the country as a rare
example of fighting action on Canadian soil.
Following the War, the property reverted back to the provincial government under the
Department of Reform Institutions as a training school, which was eventually closed in
1979 when the Young Offenders Act was enacted.
The Bowmanville Boys Training School/Camp 30 is of architectural significance
because the buildings (and their layout in the site) reflect modern architectural
influences of the 1920s and 1930s, most notably the influence of the Prairie Style of
architecture. The modernist vocabulary of cubic volumes, open plan, purity of form and
flat roofs distinguished these buildings from others being built at the time in the area and
from other such institutions across the country.
The site has cultural contextual significance as it is a well-known local landmark whose
unique history attracts attention from outside of the municipality as well.
Description of Heritage Attributes
The character -defining elements relating to the site:
• The spatial relationship between buildings across the open landscape reflective
of the campus -plan of the original Bowmanville Training School
• The visual connection between the buildings, manifest through the style,
materials and ornament
• The circulation pattern provided by the ring road and the paths through the
landscape, which create a cohesive campus ensemble
• The semi -domestic environment of the former school buildings created by the
scale and massing of each of the structures
The character -defining elements relating to each of the six buildings:
• The steel framing with masonry construction, finished on the exterior in brick
and/or stucco, with shingle roofs
• With the exception of the Infirmary and Triple Dorm buildings, the long, low
massing that visually connects the buildings with the landscape site by means of
flat roofs with pronounced overhangs over one -storey structures
• With the exception of the Infirmary and the Gymnasium, the clerestory windows
(steel framed, hopper type) set back from the outer walls of the one -storey
structures with slightly hipped roof and overhanging eaves
• The variety of window openings and types being primarily double -hung, paired
openings on the ground floor or single openings (with the exception of the
Infirmary and the Gymnasium)
• With the exception of the Infirmary building, the simple, geometric terracotta
ornamentation under the eaves and the geometric patterning incorporated
through the use of stucco outlining cubic forms of the structures
• The overall massing of the buildings with clear, simple forms and ample
fenestration for natural lighting
• The ambiguity of the a primary/front facade
Additional Character -defining elements for the Cafeteria
The large open concept interior flooded with natural light from the windows and
the clerestory
The large window openings with metal windows for natural lighting
The tall brick chimney
Additional Character -defining elements for the Gymnasium/Natatorium
Large window openings with metal windows for natural lighting
The glass block windows
The configuration and materials of the pool
Additional Character -defining elements for the Infirmary
The two -storey form under a hipped roof with one -storey addition under a flat roof
The rectangular window openings (for double -hung windows)
Additional Character -defining elements for the Triple Dormitory
The hipped roof over the clerestory windows
LRO # 40 Application To Register Bylaw Receipted as DR2289601 on 2024 01 05 at 09:17
The applicant(s) hereby applies to the Land Registrar. yyyy mm dd Page 1 of 7
Properties
PIN 26650 - 1005 LT
Description PART LOT 7 CON 2 DARLINGTON, PART LOT 8 CON 2 DARLINGTON, PART 1 10R83
EXCEPT PART 2 10R925 & PART 1 40R31599; S/T D463731 ASSIGNED BY D463732;
SUBJECT TO AN EASEMENT AS IN D498685; MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON
Address BOWMANVILLE
PIN 26650 - 1004 LT
Description PART LOT 7 CON 2 DARLINGTON, PART 1 40R31599; MUNICIPALITY OF
CLARINGTON
Address BOWMANVILLE
Applicant(s)
This Order/By-law affects the selected PINs.
Name THE CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON
Address for Service 40 Temperance St.
Bowmanville, Ontario
L1 C 3A6
This document is being authorized by a municipal corporation Adrian Foster, Mayor, and Anne Greentree, Municipal Clerk.
This document is not authorized under Power of Attorney by this party.
Statements
This application is based on the Municipality By-law See Schedules.
Signed By
Joanne Marie Barchard 40 Temperance St. acting for Signed 202401 05
Bowmanville Applicant(s)
L1C 3A6
Tel 905-623-3379
Fax 905-623-6020
I have the authority to sign and register the document on behalf of the Applicant(s).
Submitted By
MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON - LEGAL 40 Temperance St. 202401 05
Bowmanville
L1C 3A6
Tel 905-623-3379
Fax 905-623-6020
Fees/Taxes/Payment
Statutory Registration Fee $69.95
Total Paid $69.95