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This neighborhood north of Davenport Road was established by landscape painter Marmaduke Matthews, who was employed for a time by the Canadian Pacific Railway to depict landscapes. Matthews built the community’s first home in 1874 on a four-hectare plot, and named it after Wychwood Forest in Oxfordshire, England, near his birthplace. In 1877 businessman Alexander Jardine built a home called Braemore on a five-hectare plot nearby. Seeking to establish an artists’ colony, the two men purchased additional land and created a plan for a residenti