 Possibly, though nobody is sure, this may have the home that Tim Horton owned. (SUN MEDIA/MARK O'NEIL)
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TORONTO -- We've got Mackenzie House, Cameron House, and Gibson House.
But what about Tim Horton House?
Apparently, the iconic blue liner-turned-coffee and doughnut king once lived in a modest Scarborough bungalow on Warden Ave., and Councillor Norm Kelly said yesterday he is going to start the application process to erect a plaque outside Timmy's old home.
"Tim was the first of the rushing, slap-shooting defencemen and helped transform the game," he said. "He's a Hall of Famer ... He's iconic because of the restaurant chain that's been built on his name, and he lived on Warden Ave.
"I think it would be interesting for the people who live there to know that a guy of this importance lived there."
But one problem Kelly faces is that he isn't exactly sure which of several homes on Warden Ave. just south of Ellesmere Rd. it is.
It is likely between 1366 and 1382 Warden Ave., and because Kelly's heard it was directly across from a local Greek Orthodox church, he's narrowed the search to between 1372 and 1378 Warden Ave.
While he's anxious to hear from past residents of the area who may know which house exactly was Horton's, he also thinks Heritage Toronto's historian could figure that out, too.
But that would only happen if the city agency's board of directors approved the Tim Horton home as a worthy heritage property.
Peggy Mooney, executive director of Heritage Toronto, admits she "loves" Tim Horton's coffee, but she's not sure his Scarborough home deserves a plaque.
"I don't know enough about Tim Horton's career in Toronto, apart from the fact that he played for the Maple Leafs," she said.
Councillor Howard Moscoe, who isn't advocating for a Tim Horton House plaque, says there needs to be greater recognition of the city's heritage outside the downtown core.
"I acknowledge the fact that the city began downtown ... but there is also an awful lot of heritage in the suburbs," he said.