 In 1879 John Smith, the owner of the Scadding property, gave Scadding Cabin to the York Pioneers.1879 was also the beginning of the Toronto Industrial Exhibition (later the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) ) and the York Pioneers worked with the Exhibition's founders to move the cabin to its current site to celebrate the fair's inauguration.The cabin was dismantled, moved and reconstructed by the York Pioneers on the grounds of the first Industrial Exhibition (now Exhibition Place) on August 22, 1879 near the site of Fort Rouillé.