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

[Diane Falvey]

Hi Alex:
I just discovered your interactive map of Toronto. What great work! I thought you might like a historic comment. My Great Grandfather, Patrick Falvey, owned the original Deer Park Farm until 1922 when he died and was buried in St Michael's cemetary across the road on St Clair Ave. At that time, the farm borders were St. Clair Ave to the south, Yonge St to the east, Avenue Rd to the west (except for the semi-crescent that he sold to Upper Canada College to build the school) and Eglington to the north (including the "Chaplin Estates).
He sold his market vegetables at St Lawrence Market.
That is it, Hope the info is interesting to you. By the way, my email address is the Irish spelling of "Female decendent of Falvey)
Diane Falvey

[Brian MacFarlane]

Great job at taking on such a large project, it's amazing how many communities combine to make up our city, each with I am sure some interesting origins and stories. Just a small correction concerning the description of the Curran Hall Community boundaries. The community is bounded by the Highland Creek to the east, to the North by Ellesmere Rd, the west by Scarborough Golf Club Rd. and the south by Lawrence Avenue East.
Further information can be found on the community website under www.curranhall.ca .The description originally posted indicated the boundary of our community to the west was Markham Rd. West of Scarborough Golf Club Rd. are two communities, Densgrove Park and Churchill Heights, respectfully.

[Alex]

People need to remember that, this map is never going to be perfect. The creators did their best, but as they've pointed out there is often no consensus on boundaries or names of neighborhoods. That's probably why large chunks of downtown (i.e between Uni and Yonge, and south of Queen) are unnamed. Its not because the creators don't care but probably because they could find enough info. These things take time.

Thank you Star folks, this was a great idea.

[Jay Spark]

"South Cabbagetown" (as originally defined by SOBRA ... the Seaton/Ontario/Berkeley Residents Association) was always SOUTH OF GERRARD. Gerrard Street is the dividing line between "north" and "south" when it comes to Cabbagetown. Please correct your map.

[Andrew]

Adding to Dougal's comment, this map is nice to look at, but to make it truly useful, you should provide access to the map on Google Maps or Google Earth, so that we can use it properly on mobile devices.

[HC]

any chance of making some of the updates???? ever?