Nobody's Home: Abandoned Houses of York Mills and The Bridle Path - Paperbackby Scott Kennedy (Author) The scourge of the monster house affects communities all across Canada, so while the Toronto neighbourhood of York Mills is not unique in this respect, it has suffered more than most, owing to the generous size of its residential lots in what has now become the centre of the city. York Mills was still a rural community until after the Second World War, when a post war population boom created a housing boom that gobbled up the