Feb 5, 2015 | NEIGHBORHOODS
The Scarborough Bluffs are the most distinctive natural feature in our area, stretching along our shoreline for more than 14 km and reaching heights of up to 90 metres. They are part of the escarpment that originally formed the shoreline of Glacial Lake Iroquois, back...
Feb 5, 2015 | NEIGHBORHOODS
Boundaries: From Lake Ontario up Bellamy creek and Bellamy Road up to the CN rail line on the east, along the rail line to Midland on the north, back along St Clair to Brimley, and along Brimley to the lake on the west. James McCowan arrived from Scotland with his...
Feb 5, 2015 | NEIGHBORHOODS
Boundaries: From Lake Ontario up Bellamy creek and Bellamy Road up to the CN rail line on the east, along the rail line to Midland on the north, back along St Clair to Brimley, and along Brimley. Kingston Road was the major throughway from Toronto to Kingston and...
Feb 5, 2015 | NEIGHBORHOODS
Boundaries: the political boundaries of Scarborough Southwest are being extended east of Bellamy to Markham Road south of Eglinton, an area which forms the western part of Scarborough Village. Bellamy Road was named after Edward Bellamy, who in 1888 wrote a popular...
Feb 5, 2015 | NEIGHBORHOODS
Boundaries: Eglinton on the north from Kennedy to Brimley, south to the rail line, back as far as Birchmount, and north to the subway tracks. The Grand Trunk Railway was built through southern Scarborough in 1856, linking Toronto to Montreal. In the 1860s George...
Feb 5, 2015 | NEIGHBORHOODS |
Boundaries: the area south of the Subway line and north of Mack Ave between Warden and Birchmount. (I fabricated the name of this area, as some maps attach it to Clairlea, others to Scarborough Junction, aka Kennedy Park, and still others to neither.) Much of this...
Feb 5, 2015 | NEIGHBORHOODS
Boundaries: on the north along the CN rail line from Victoria Park, then Danforth Ave to the juncture with Kingston Rd, then south to Rosetta McClain Gardens and Lake Ontario. Kingston Road became the major thoroughfare through Scarborough in the early 1800s. In...
Feb 5, 2015 | NEIGHBORHOODS
Boundaries: South of the CN rail line from Victoria Park to Warden, north of Gerrard and Clonmore. The Toronto Brick Company operated a gravel pit and quarry on this land from the 1930s to the early 1950s. Subsequent to this the land was used as a garbage dump for...
Feb 5, 2015 | NEIGHBORHOODS
Boundaries: Massey Creek to the north from Victoria Park to Warden, CN Rail line along the south from Victoria Park to Birchmount, and then Mack Ave back to Warden. Oakridge takes its name from Oakridge Public School which was built on the site where Oakridge Park is...
