Dashwood & Dashwood

About Dashwood & Dashwood

Dashwood & Dashwood is a small general practice firm on Kingston Road in Toronto's Beach neighbourhood, focused on real estate conveyancing and wills and estates work. Fred Dashwood opened the practice in 1926, working as a general Barrister and Solicitor from the same stretch of Kingston Road the firm still occupies today. Fred was the son of Joseph Dashwood, an immigrant from England who worked as a court clerk, and Fred earned a law degree from Osgoode Hall before going into practice.

The firm passed to a second generation in the mid 1950s when Fred's son John joined after earning a law degree from Osgoode Hall, and to a third in 1986 when John's son Geoffrey, who studied at the University of Toronto before earning a law degree from Queen's University, was called to the bar. John retired in 2001, and Geoffrey has run the practice since. The firm describes itself as the oldest law firm in Toronto east of the Don River. Day to day work centres on real estate conveyancing, wills, powers of attorney, and estate administration; litigation matters are typically referred elsewhere.