Portrait of Alice Kilgour

Original Toronto Star caption: Kilgour estate changes hands. Toronto to-day officially receives the finest gift of land ever made to it for park purposes--175 acres on the Don north of Leaside--the donor being Mrs. Kilgour, acting on behalf of her husband, the late Joseph Kilgour. This expanse of farm and park land is worth about $550,000. It is somewhat larger than the original Howard High Park gift which was 165 acres, though subsequent additions have bought the extent of High Park to 335 acres. With the Kilgour gift go numerous buildings, shown in the cut above. Built in a hollow cup of the hills they include a huge riding arena where the sixty thoroughbred hunters belonging to the famous Sunnybrook stables used to be exercised over the jumps in winter weather. A second large model cow stable used to house forty head of prize cattle. Mrs. Kilgour, breaking her rule against publicity just for once, is shown below, with a map showing how to get to the park, which will remain to future Toronto as a memorial to her husband. [Incomplete]

Image published in Toronto Star, 13 September 1928, page 25, to illustrate article, "Toronto receives officially splendid gift of park".