The Star's Toronto neighbourhood map: complete

BORIS SPREMO/TORONTO STAR

Link to the map

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The Toronto neighbourhood map is done, or as done as these things ever can be. There may be some tweaks.

Discussions of neighbourhood maps of the 905 have begun. We will probably start with Mississauga.

Here are the final changes to the Toronto map:

1. Added O’Connor Hills, bounded by Beveridge Dr., Victoria Park, Lawrence Ave. and the Don Valley Parkway.
2. Added Glen Andrew, bounded by Ellesmere, Thompson Park, Brimley Rd. and McCowan.
3. Sliced “Cabbagetown South” out of Cabbagetown., bounded by Shuter, Sherbourne, Carleton and Parliament.
4. Added Hunt Club, bounded by Gerrard/Clonmore in the north and the lake in the south, between Warden and Victoria Park, but without altering the borders of Fallingbroke.
5. Added Curran Hall,  bounded by Lawrence, Ellesmere, Highland Creek and Markham Rd. (Golfdale Gardens remains in the south.)
6. Added Upper Jarvis, bounded by Bloor, Jarvis, Wellesley and Sherbourne.
7. Added Fenside, bounded by the 401, Don Valley Pkwy., York Mills and Victoria Park.
8. Altered named of Hillcrest to become Hillcrest-Bracondale.
9. Added Denlow, bounded by York Mills, Leslie, Lawrence in the south and the ravine in the west.
10. Added Garden District, bounded by Carlton, Yonge, Sherbourne and Queen, but excluded areas already marked Moss Park and Ryerson.
11. Added Heathbridge Park, which is south of Moore Ave., north of Heath St., west of Bayview and east of Lumley.
12. Added Rosehill, bounded by Yonge, St. Clair in the north, Avoca and the ravine in the end, south to a line between Jackes Ave., and Woodlawn Ave.
13. Added Maple Leaf, covering the area north Amesbury between Keele, Jane and the 401.

Comments

[Paul Macdonald]

I live on Homewood Ave south of Wellesley. It seems that our area has no name.

Based on the vast numbers of pedestrians crossing back & forth on the light at Jarvis & Maitland; it seems logical the we consider ourselves part of the Church-Wellesley neighbourhood, as the local shops, cafes, and the Church Street Public School serves our street.

[Phuket]

As usual The Star doesn't care about 905 unless it involves murder or crime.

How long have you been working on the 905 neighbourhood map?
And where is it?

[Alex Law]

In the supertexts built into your colored map, it says The Beaches and The Upper Beaches, but if you click on those zones the balloons say The Beach and The Upper Beach. Perhaps you should fix that for clarity's sake.

[pcain]

Hi, Alex Law -

There's unfortunately not much we can do about the Google Maps neighbourhood names, which co-exist strangely with ours. A label for East York sits outside the historic East York boundary, as one example.

[rodney@buyingblock.com]

Hi Alex

I was wondering if you are using the boundaries as defined by the city of toronto. Here is the link http://www.toronto.ca/demographics/profiles_map_and_index.htm. Probably makes sense as eventually the city will have those street signs indicating the neighbourhood and street.

Rodney

[Brian Simpson]

Hey Alex. I sent a message before but I may not have done it correctly.

The northern part of Cabbagetown, which runs along Wellesley St. East and borders St. James Cemetery is called Donvale, and was called Donvale back in the 1800's.

Thanks
Brian

[Alanna Morgan]

Thanks for this. It is extremely helpful for The Clean Train Coalition (www.cleantrain.ca) to organize in neighbourhoods along the rail corridor for our campaign to GO ELECTRIC, say NO TO Metrolinx's plan to run upwards of 400 DIRTY DIESEL TRAINS A DAY (that's a train every 3 minutes) through our densely populated residential neighbourhoods.

[Abdulla Mohammed Abdulrahman Waleed]

The boundaries are straight lines. At least part of the natural boundary between Thompson Orchard and Norseman Heights (dumb name)is Mimico Creek. Perhaps if it cannot be seen from your location in the old City of Toronto, then in conformity with your man Miiler's view, it does not matter.

[M G]

The triangular area east of Yorkville and south of Rosedall is indicated by the city street signs and many maps as Yorkville. It is left as a grey area in your map ?

[Shelley Brunet]

We live 2 blocks north of the Danforth and west of Broadview in a little enclave that is bordered by the DVP to the west of us. It appears that our neighbourhood does not have a name. As we are west of Broadview, we are not considered to be part of Playter Estates. In speaking with our neighbours, some of whom have been here for many, many years and with some of the local merchants we have learned that apparently our little pocket is considered to be Danforth by the Valley. One less grey spot on a neigbourhood map that apparently completed.

[Nav]

There are organizations that can millions from copying maps you produce and transforming them into geographic information systems digital format....The sta..r should make sure they pursue the appropriate copyright to prevent companies that profit continiously by providing fortune 5000 oraganizies with consulting based on geography...I used to work for a major provider in this sector and i've seen to much shadyness go on. If you make maps make sure you have them protected...companies are aggragating them to make huge profits of other peoples hard work

[Valerie]

Denlow does not extend all the way to Lawrence. It is much farther north than that.

[William Stratas]

There is a strongly definable neighbourhood along Bay Street, between Charles (on the north) and Edward (on the south), and stretching 1/2 block on both E/W sides of Bay. There are approx. 12 condominium tower communities along this corridor. The name of this would be "Bay Street" - I am surprised that approx 6,000 residents would be omitted from that large component of the map. Please add to the map.

[Marie Todd]

When I was growing up - pre Regent Park Days - Cabbagetown followed St. Paul's Basilica Parish Guidelines ie South of Carlton Street to Lakeshore not north to Danforth. Corktown is an older name for the lower part of the area.

[Neil]

Rosedale should really be divided into three parts - North (north of the Glen Road bridge), South and Chestnut Park (west or Mount Pleasant)

[Denise Harris]

Love the new Toronto Neighbourhoods map, the first half of which was published in yesterday's Star!

However, I just noticed an incorrectly labelled river that should be changed next time you update the map.

In Etobicoke, Mimico Creek is incorrectly labelled Etobicoke Creek. Mimico Creek runs from approximately the Hwy 409/427 intersection southeast, entering Lake Ontario beside the Humber Bay neighbourhood.

Etobicoke Creek is actually further west and forms the western boundary of the southern half of Etobicoke, making that boundary the nice wavy line we see on the map.

[Francois]

It is interesting that most of Bay Street is a non-neighbourhood, considering its staggering population density.

[Frank Chow]

In the Don Mills neighbourhood, there is a stray label "Sunnybrook-York Mills".

[Gary]

Church Wellesly is a BIA made up name that is meaningless. It's real name is "THE GAY VILLAGE" and that's what EVERYONE I know calls it. (Or occasionally Mollywood) SO why don't you call the neighbourhood by it's real name, not the stupid BIA lable.
I heard that Chinatown was not listed as a neighbourhood. If that's true, why is that?

[Marilyn Pillar]

I loved that you published the Neighbourhoods map! Last week my childhood home area of Newtonbrook was plotted. My late mother lived there as a child (her father actually worked for the municipality laying many of the roads) and she still lived there until June. Since my childhood, mail was addressed to Willowdale or North York and finally Toronto although I persisted in addressing cards to my mother with Newtonbrook. Many current residents would only know of the Newtonbrook area because of the local high school.

This week I was thrilled to see the area designated "White Haven". I'll bet many residents did not know that in the '50s & '60s my grandparents ran a riding and boarding stable on that property. It was called White Haven Stables after the village in England where my grandfather had been born. I remember when the 401 was a 2 lane highway riding our horses along it's edge and when at the grand opening of CFTO offering pony rides to raise money for charity.

Oh...the memories! Thanks.

[foundry lofts]

The formerly industrial area to the east of railroad tracks bordering on Lansdowne does not belong to Carleton Village.

It is a part of Davenport neighbourhood; the developer's suggested name is "Davenport Village".

[Garth]

The Beach(es) actually begins at Woodbine Ave... The western most part of what is displayed on the map (bordering Coxwell Ave, Kingston Rd and Woodbine Ave) is know as the Beach(es) Corridor or the Beach(es) Triangle, but is not The Beach(es) proper (unless you are a real estate agent!!)

[Wayne MacRae]

Davisville Village? I understand the historical reasoning for Davisville village as there was a "Davis Farm" near the intersection of Yonge and Davisville and there is a TTC station, although it's accross the street for your border. Manor Rd. was also the "manor road" to the manor house of another farm in the area, but the area defined in your map revolves around Mt. Pleasant. So I reccomend Mt. Pleasant Village or Penrose Village (on Mt' PLeasant near Manor) named after the longest serving retailer in the community (40 to 50 years) and the best fish and chips in the city. :-)

[Dougal Haggart]

Would be tremendously useful navigational resource if you could supply print option for users to zoom to any map view, click on bubble hotspots (neighbourhood boundaries) as on Google maps. In a perfect world the opacity of the neighbourhood overlay colour would be 30% so map shows thru! Thanks!

[underhill]

I grew up in the so-called O'Connell Hills neighborhood and can say that no one every called it that and the name doesn't make sense. There are no hills, just a ridge. "O'Connell" recognizes the separate school of the same name, but not the rest of the community. Using Beveridge Dr. as a boundary also doesn't make sense. The boundary excludes Cassandra elementary school, the school for many children in the neighborhood. A better boundary would be the north section of Cassandra Blvd., DVP on the west, Victoria Park on the east and Lawrence on the south. As for the name, better alternatives are Don Mills East, Donwoods (name of the shopping plaza in that area) or Broadlands (name of a park, school pool and skating rink). Cheers.