Charles Coxwell Small (b 1801) was a wealthy farmer and public official in

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. Like his father, John Small, Small was the Chief Clerk of Upper Canada's Privy Council. In 1831 Small inherited extensive property from his father. This property included a parcel between

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, and

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and what is now

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, but was then known as Parliament Street, on the original townsite of

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(later Toronto), with a large house, called Berkeley House. Charles Coxwell Small added to the house, transforming it into what ''Beaches Living'' called a ''"mansion"''. When new Parliament buildings were built, elsewhere, the original Parliament Street was renamed Berkeley after the Small grand home. He also inherited a parcel bounded by what is now

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, Coxwell, Danforth and Kingston Road, then outside of the city limits. Coxwell Avenue is named after Charles Coxwell Small. Small dammed the creek on his rural property, to harness the waterpower for a sawmill. The large pond this created was named Small's Pond. The largest of the creeks he dammed was renamed Small's Creek. Charles Coxwell Small had a son born in 1831, the year his father died, who he also named John Small, served in Parliaments of the

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and

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. His son was elected to Parliament of the

for the riding of East Toronto Riding in 1855, and was later elected to the

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