Map of the Week: The Star's neighbourhood map, version 3.0

TONY BOCK/TORONTO STAR

Link to the map

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We went out of our way to ask you what you had to say about the neighbourhood map Kenneth Kidd wrote about on Sunday, and you responded - on top of scores of e-mails Ken received, there were 36 comments on the article and at last count 95 on this blog.

Ken distilled these into 29 specific changes, which now appear on the map:

1. Added Wellington Place, bounded by King, Spadina, Front and Bathurst.

2. Added Wynford-Concorde, a high-rise community bounded by Eglinton, Don Mills Rd., the Don Valley and the railway tracks to the north.

4. Added Keelesdale, bounded by Rogers Rd., Keele, Black Creek and the little ravine just to the north of Gulliver Rd.

5. Changed name of South Riverdale to Riverside-South Riverdale.

6. Changed name of Rouge Hill to West Rouge and extended the western boundary to Port Union Rd.

7. Altered name of Port Union neighbourhood to read Centennial-Port Union.

8. Added The Pocket, bounded by the Greenwood Yards, the train tracks to the south, the Danforth to the north and Jones to the west.

9. Added Bridlewood, bounded by Sheppard, Finch, Pharmacy and Ward.

10. Added Wishing Well, bounded by Sheppard, the 401, Warden and VP.

11. Included the little area north of the tracks in The Junction.

12. Adjusted Rosedale boundary so that it’s Rosedale Valley Rd. in the south.

13. Adjusted Yorkville boundary so it extends no further north than Davenport. Area north of that is nameless.

14. Extended Milliken boundary further west so that it includes Milliken GO station and a few remaining buildings from the original village as well as the industrial area.

15. Altered name of Humber Heights to read Humber Heights-Westmount

16. Made the western border of Corktown Parliament.

17. East of Parliament, created Old Town, and extended it to Church.

18. Added Tritown, to cover the area bounded by Bloor to the north, Sherbourne to the east, Jarvis to the west and Carlton to the south.

19. Adjust Bayview Village so that the eastern boundary is the river, and the southern boundary is Sheppard.

20. Added Chestnut Hills, bounded by Islington, Dundas and Angelsey.

21. Added Brimwood, bounded by McNicoll, Brimley, Finch and McCowan.

22. Called area at northern end of Morningside Heights, across the hydro corridor, Brookside.

23. Added Treverton Park, area north of Eglinton between Kennedy and the railway tracks until the park.

24. Make the northeast boundary of Mount Dennis the railway tracks.

25. Fix polygon to Parkview Hills to include Doris, Alder and Northline, streets on the periphery.

26. Humber Bay Shores created from part of Humber Bay. This is the condo development on the Etobicoke side of the mouth of the Humber.

27. Stonegate created from parts of Humber Bay and Sunnylea

28. Humberwood created in the Hwy. 427 and Rexdale Blvd. area.

29. Junction Triangle created, near Bloor St. W. and Perth Ave.

Comments

[J. Calderca]

The area north of Gerrard Street East and south of the railway tracks between Carlaw and Greenwood is considered to be Riverdale or Eastern Riverdale NOT Leslieville. The architectural styles of homes in this pocket are consistent with Riverdale rather than Leslieille.

[John Zuccarini]

Your area of Richview in Etobicoke is much to large and there are at least 3 different name in that large area. The area bounded by Kipling, Islington, The Westway and Eglinton is known as Richmond Gardens. The area bounded by Royal York and Islington and Eglinton to the Westway is known as Royal York Gardens.

[Margaret McGovern]

Bridlewood Continues north of Finch at least to McNicholl. The Bridlewood Mall is north of Finch at Warden and Finch.
Margaret McGovern

[Audrey Fox]

Pls. add Bracondale Hill, a small community which is part of the larger "Hillcrest" neighbourhood.
This is a nearly 100-year-old subdivision of approx. 130 homes. We are in the process of getting heritage signs for this tiny but lovely little spot (just north of Davenport Road, west of Christie, south of Tyrrell)

More details at:
http://www.lostrivers.ca/points/Bracondale.htm
Hope we make it onto your map; and thank you for such a WONDERFUL project!!

[Al Gnus]

I and other posters are still questioning "Tritown". It's a complete fabrication. NO ONE who lives here has EVER heard this term in reference to our neighbourhood.

[Chad Thomas]

Don't forget Ionview in Scarborough. Birchmount to Kennedy, Eglinton to Ranstone. There is a hydro field separating it from McGregor Park.

[Kevin]

This whole neighborhood map is a neat concept. Thanks for taking on the project. I live in the northern part of what you called "Don Valley Village", north of Finch but south of the Hydro right-of-way. I've always considered this area to be part of Hillcrest Village - our public library is the "Hillcrest" branch, and the kids on my street go to the same public school as the ones who live in the southern end of Hillcrest Village - the TDSB even uses Finch as the boundary, not the Hydro field. Many years ago, I lived in the area you labeled as "Hillcrest", near St. Clair and Oakwood (how's that for a coincidence). We always thought of the area as Regal Heights. I'm not sure where the "official" boundary was, but I'm pretty sure it was east of Oakwood, but not as far over as Christie, which is where Hillcrest Park is located. And just to the east of Hillcrest, I'm sure the residents of Wychwood Park resent having Burnside Drive and parts of Bathurst Street added to their private community.

[margaret worobec]

Having lived on Dixon and Islington Ave. We were always refered to as Westown village, Hmm, brings back a lot of nostalgic memories. That dated back to 1962 just about the time all the new apartments were being built and a shopping mall.

[Ian Coutts]

Lytton Park, as you have defined it on your map, is the real estate industry's expanded version of this neighbourhood.

A little research, sourcing such references as Metropolitan Street Railway, the Beatty Farm, Mud Creek, Lytton Park and Begg Gardens, and particularly David Dunkelman and his book 'Your Guide to Toronto Neighbourhoods' would, I believe, cause you to properly delineate Lytton Park. Briefly, the 1988 sale of the 200 acre Beatty Farm, located between Yonge St. and Avenue Road, near the Metropolitan Toronto Street Railway station located at Yonge and Glengrove, formed the land holding for the Glengrove Park Subdivision, of which the Lytton Park neighbourhood was a part. Lytton Park did not extend west of Avenue Road, as you illustrate.

Today, the Lytton Park Residents' Organization defines its boundaries as Avenue Road to Yonge St., Lawrence Avenue to Roselawn. In fact, earlier references define the southern boundary as Briar Hill Avenue.

Congratulations on this great, and no doubt daunting, task.

[Kevin Plautz]

I am an urban planner who has lived in several areas of the city and been involved in projects in several areas of the city. I thing that your Star map has done is tried to put hard boundaries on neighbours. A lot of the time the name of neighbourhood's overlaps. For example, you have Dublin Heights/Wilson Hieghts shown as one neighbourhood, when in fact I know from when I lived nearby there that the northern half or so is Dublin Heights and the southern half is for sure Wilson Heights. You should be showing the neighbourhoods separately but have a small area where two colours are shown in intermittent lines where the names overlap.

The same is true for Port Union/Centennial. Centential was long the name of most of this area. Only the mostly new development in the S and SW of the area is called Port Union (with a library and community centre called that). As well, Port Union for sure extends in the area you now have marked as West Rouge - everything that used to be industrial land nearby Lawrence Avenue until the last 10 years is part of Port Union. The boundary is is tough to define but no one in the new Port Union area says they are from Port Union and no one up near Centennial Lawson would ever say they are in Port Union.

Also, the area around Cebraemall is called Cedarbrae not Woburn.

The east end of East York, south and west of Crescent Town, when I lived there we call called it Dentonia Park - there is a street, a church, a park and a golf course all named that.

Lawrence Park extends westward along the south side of Lawrence Ave west of Yonge north of the Chatsworth Ravine. The school right there is called Lawrence Park.

I lived on Givins Ave just SW of Ossington and Dundas and we called it Portugal Village. That is what all the street signs along Dundas in the area said and that is what it was called. it did not matter that that this was a commercial district name - that is what it was called. Why do you have a neighbourhood called Little Italy then? It should extend a bit north of College as College is not a hard boundary.

The Danforth should only go eastward to Greenwood and it should be Greektown/Danforth.

[BIll]

Not sure if a few streets count as a neighborhood but:
The McGill-Granby Village Residents’ Association was
established in 1978 when the City of Toronto Planning
Department recognized this as an area which merits
planning attention to preserve residential house form
dwellings in the City’s core. The City of Toronto passed
By-law 283-83 to establish this as an area of Special
Identity, in response to the planners’ recommendations.
Our boundaries are Yonge Street, Carlton Street, Jarvis
Street, and Gerrard Street East.

[Denise Moore]

With respect to the comments about the Danforth, I agree that if asked where the Danforth is, people first think of the area between the DVP and Pape/Jones. But the area around the Danforth at Greenwood or Main etc. is also called the Danforth by many people. Because it seems obvious to still call it that? Because yes, there are still some Greek stores that far east? Maybe because many people don't see the Jones Ave distinction that others do? Maybe because there's no obvious competing name? Whatever the reason, it does still get called the Danforth. That said, I find that once you get inside the former Scarborough, Danforth Ave and Danforth Rd do NOT get referred to as "the Danforth", maybe because the idea of being in the former Scarborough made enough of a psychological difference.

BTW, to the person who said the Danforth was the south boundary of East York, NOT SO. The East York boundary was usually a block or two north of Danforth Ave, though East York dipped down south of the Danforth to take in what was Shoppers World Danforth. (A fact many people were probably unaware of.)

[Jelani Laws]

Big edit. Leslieville is not that big at all. Riverdale Collegiate Institute which has stood at the corner of Gerrard and Jones since 1907 isn't even considered in the neighbourhood of Riverdale on this map. Riverdale contains many sub-neighbourhoods, however Leslieville is not one of them. Some of the neighbourhoods here are too small to self-indentify or they lack the historical references that establish them. Leslieville does not go north of Gerrard, and The Pocket is a sub neighbourhood of Riverdale.

[Richard]

Forget this, I mean it's not bad, but Wikipedia actually has THE best coverage on neighbourhoods, it's very accurate, better than anything else I've seen