Toronto Transit Commission / City of Toronto
EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT
TRANSIT PROJECT ASSESSMENT STUDY
ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT REPORT
APPENDIX C – CULTURAL HERITAGE RESOURCE ASSESSMENT REPORT
CULTURAL HERITAGE RESOURCE
ASSESSMENT REPORT:
BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES &
CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES
PRELIMINARY PLANNING FOR A TRANSIT
PROJECT ASSESSMENT STUDY
EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT)
MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY TTC STATION
LESTER B. PEARSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT EXTENSION
CITY OF TORONTO
CITY OF MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO
February 2010
Prepared for:
Transit City Group
Prepared by:
CULTURAL HERITAGE RESOURCE
ASSESSMENT REPORT:
BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES &
CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES
PRELIMINARY PLANNING FOR A TRANSIT
PROJECT ASSESSMENT STUDY
EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT)
MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY TTC STATION
LESTER B. PEARSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT EXTENSION
CITY OF TORONTO
CITY OF MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO
February 2010
Prepared for:
Transit City Group
Prepared by:
Unterman McPhail Associates
Heritage Resource Management Consultants
540 Runnymede Road
Toronto, Ontario, M6S 2Z7
Tel: 416-766-7333
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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LIST OF FIGURES
1.0
INTRODUCTION
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2.0
3.0
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT & CULTURAL HERITAGE
RESOURCES
2.1
Ontario Environmental Assessment Act (EAA)
2.2
Transit Projects Regulation (Ontario Regulation 231/08)
2.3
Ontario Heritage Act (OHA)
2.4
Ministry of Tourism and Culture
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ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY
3.1
Introduction
3.2
Public Consultation and Recognition
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Figure 1.
Figure 2:
Location of Lester B. Pearson International Airport
Extension Study Corridor, City of Toronto [TTC, 2009].
Location of Eglinton Crosstown LRT Study Corridor, City of
Toronto [TTC, 2009].
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LIST OF TABLES
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5.0
6.0
HISTORICAL SUMMARY
4.1
Township of Etobicoke, Township of York and Township of
Scarborough, County of York
4.1.1 Former Hamlets and Villages
4.2
Township of Toronto Gore and Toronto Township, County of Peel
4.2.1 Hamlets and Villages
4.3
Lester B. Pearson International Airport
IDENTIFICATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES
AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES
5.1
Introduction
5.2
Description of the Existing Environment
5.2.1 Lester B. Person International Airport Extension
5.2.2 Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) Martin Grove
Road to Kennedy TTC
5.3
Description of Identified Cultural Heritage Resources
5.3.1 Lester B. Person International Airport Extension
5.3.2 Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) Martin Grove
Road to Kennedy TTC
POTENTIAL IMPACTS AND MITIGATION RECOMMENDATIONS
6.1
Introduction
6.2
Lester B. Person International Airport Extension
6.3
Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) Martin Grove
Road to Kennedy TTC
6.4
Future Mitigation Commitments
SOURCES
APPENDIX A: Historical Maps
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Figure 1.
Table 2:
Table 3:
Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT): Lester B.
Pearson Airport Extension Identified Cultural Heritage
Landscapes (CHL) and Built Heritage Resources (BHR)
Within and Adjacent to the Study Corridor.
Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT): Martin Grove
Road to Kennedy Road Identified Cultural Heritage
Landscapes (CHL) and Built Heritage Resources (BHR)
Within and Adjacent to the Study Corridor.
Potential Impacts to Cultural Heritage Resources due to
Station Sites, Platforms and Transit Related Infrastructure on
Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) Martin Grove
Road to Kennedy TTC Study Corridor.
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INTRODUCTION
Transit City Group (TCG) retained Unterman McPhail Associates to conduct a cultural
heritage landscape and built heritage assessment on behalf of the TTC for the planning
and preliminary design study for the study corridor from Martin Grove Road in the west
along Eglinton Avenue to Kennedy Road in the east. The report includes the associated
Lester B. Pearson International Airport Extension study corridor. The study follows the
Ontario’s Transit Project Assessment process (TPA) in accordance with Ontario
Regulation 231/08 for Transit Projects and Greater Toronto Transportation Authority
Undertakings (Transit Projects Regulation). The transit project assessment process
applies to selected transit projects as identified in the regulation and exempts other transit
projects from the requirements of the Environmental Assessment Act. The process under
the regulation requires public sector proponents to assess negative impacts of their chosen
transit project, identify appropriate mitigation measures and to undertake consultation.
Proponents must also make available any information or documentation done for any preplanning work undertaken which lead them to select the transit project. This Cultural
Heritage Assessment Report (CHAR) forms part of the Environmental Project Report
(EPR).
Figure 2: Location of Eglinton Crosstown LRT Study Corridor, City of Toronto [TTC, 2009].
Ultimately the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, which is approximately 31 kilometres in length,
will run from Kennedy TTC Station in the east to the Lester B. Pearson International
Airport in the west. For the Martin Grove Road to Kennedy Road section it is proposed
that the LRT will operate at surface in the centre of Eglinton Avenue from Martin Grove
Road to Black Creek and from Leslie Street to Kennedy Road. It is proposed the route
will be underground between Keele Street and Leslie Street.
2.0
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT & CULTURAL HERITAGE
RESOURCES
The need for the identification, evaluation, management and conservation of Ontario's
heritage is acknowledged as an essential component of environmental assessment and
municipal planning in Ontario.
Figure 1: Location of Lester B. Pearson International Airport Extension Study Corridor, City of
Toronto [TTC, 2009].
For the most part, the analysis of cultural heritage resources in the study area addresses
those above-ground, person-made heritage resources over 40 years old. The application
of this rolling forty year principle is an accepted federal and provincial practice for the
preliminary identification of cultural heritage resources that may be of heritage value. Its
application does not imply however that all built heritage resources or cultural heritage
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landscapes that are over forty years old are worthy of the same levels of protection or
preservation.
2.1
Ontario Environmental Assessment Act (EAA)
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any information or documentation done for any pre-planning work undertaken which lead
them to select the transit project.
Environmental assessments are undertaken under the Ontario Environmental Assessment
Act. The EAA provides for the protection, conservation and wise management of
Ontario’s environment. It defines environment in a broad sense that includes natural,
social, cultural, economic and built environments. This broad definition of the
environment makes the assessment of the impact of the undertaking on cultural heritage
resources part of the standard environmental assessment process in Ontario.
Environmental assessments made under the EAA therefore assess and address the impact
of the undertaking on cultural heritage resources.
Proponents are required to complete an Environmental Project Report (EPR) to document
the results of the process and the consultation undertaken. Regulated timelines apply to
the six month process. Once EPR is complete, members of the public and others have an
opportunity to submit an objection to the Minister about the project if there are negative
impacts on a matter of provincial importance or an Aboriginal right. The Minister may
give notice allowing a project to proceed (with or without conditions) or may require
further study. If the Minister is not satisfied that additional information addresses the
identified matter of provincial importance or the Aboriginal rights issue, then the
Minister may require the proponent to complete an individual EA for the project.
The analysis throughout the study process addresses that part of the Environmental
Assessment Act, subsection 1(c), which defines “environment” to include:
Section 10 (1) references cultural heritage:
If, at any time during the 120-day period referred to in subsection 6 (2), the
proponent is of the opinion that the transit project may have a negative impact on a
matter of provincial importance that relates to the natural environment or has
cultural heritage value or interest, or on a constitutionally protected aboriginal or
treaty right, the proponent may give written notices describing the issue to the
Director of the Ministry’s Environmental Assessment and Approvals Branch and the
appropriate regional director of the Ministry. O. Reg. 231/08, s. 10 (1).
“...cultural conditions that influence the life of humans or a community”;
as well as,
“any building, structure, machine or other device or thing made by humans”.
Infrastructure undertakings such as transit improvements may potentially affect cultural
heritage resources in a number of ways. The effects may include displacement through
removal or demolition and/or disruption by the introduction of physical, visual, audible or
atmospheric elements that are not in keeping with the character of the cultural heritage
resources and, or their setting.
2.2
Transit Projects Regulation (Ontario Regulation 231/08)
The Transit Projects Regulation (Ontario Regulation 231/08) of the Ontario
Environmental Assessment Act (OEAA) came into effect June 24. It exempts most transit
projects such as subway, bus route, intermodal hub, etc., from the conventional
environmental assessment. Major transit projects will undergo a compressed, six-month
approval process, which starts after the proponent decides the type and location of the
project. Transit projects are now exempt from public consultation through the
Environmental Bill of Rights.
The transit project assessment process applies to selected transit projects as identified in
the regulation and exempts other transit projects from the requirements of the
Environmental Assessment Act. The process under the regulation requires public sector
proponents to assess negative impacts of their chosen transit project, identify appropriate
mitigation measures and to undertake consultation. Proponents must also make available
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Ontario Heritage Act (OHA)
The OHA gives the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture (MTC), formerly the
Ministry of Culture, the responsibility for the conservation, protection and preservation of
Ontario’s culture heritage resources. Section 2 of the Ontario Heritage Act (OHA)
charges the Minister with the responsibility to,
“...determine policies, priorities and programs for the conservation, protection and
preservation of the heritage of Ontario.”
The Ministry of Tourism and Culture describes heritage buildings and structures, cultural
heritage landscapes and archaeological resources as cultural heritage resources. Since
cultural heritage resources may be impacted adversely by both public and private land
development, it is incumbent upon planning and approval authorities to consider heritage
resources when making planning decisions.
Heritage attributes, in relation to a property, are defined in the OHA as the attributes of
the property that cause it to have cultural heritage value or interest. Part IV of the OHA
enables municipalities to list, and to designate by by-law properties of cultural value or
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interest after consultation with its municipal advisory committee, if one is appointed.
Under OHA subsection 27 (1), the municipal clerk is required to keep a current register of
properties of cultural heritage value or interest located in their municipality. The
municipal register must include all properties designated under Part IV of the OHA by the
municipality or by the Minister of Tourism and Culture. Municipal designation of
heritage resources under Part IV the OHA publicly recognizes and promotes awareness of
heritage properties, provides a process for ensuring that changes to a heritage property are
appropriately managed and that these changes respect the property’s heritage value. This
includes protection from demolition. Once a property has been designated and notice has
been given to the Ontario Heritage Trust, the property is then listed on the provincial
register of heritage properties.
The alteration process under the OHA section 33 helps to ensure the heritage attributes of
a designated property, and therefore its heritage value, are conserved. If an owner of a
designated property wishes to make alterations to the property that affects the property’s
heritage attributes, the owner must obtain written consent from the council. This applies
not only to the alteration of the buildings or structures but also to alterations of other
aspects of the designated property, such as landscape features or natural features, which
have been identified as heritage attributes.
The OHA subsection 27 (1.2) also allows a property that is not designated, but considered
to be of cultural heritage interest or value by the municipal council, to be placed on the
register. This is commonly referred to as “listing”. In many cases, listed (non-designated
properties) are candidates for designation protection under OHA section 29. Once a
property is listed under the OHA, any application to demolish the building on a listed
property is delayed for 60 days under OHA 27(3).
2.3
Ministry of Tourism and Culture
The Minister of Tourism and Culture (MTC), formerly the Minister of Culture, is
responsible for the administration of the Ontario Heritage Act and is responsible for
determining policies, priorities and programs for the conservation, protection and
preservation of Ontario’s heritage, which includes cultural heritage landscapes, built
heritage and archaeological resources.
MTC guidelines assist in the assessment of cultural heritage resources as part of an
environmental assessment. They are, Guideline for Preparing the Cultural Heritage
Resource Component of Environmental Assessments (October 1992), and, Guidelines on
the Man-Made Heritage Component of Environmental Assessments (1980). The
Guidelines on the Man-Made Heritage Component of Environmental Assessments state:
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“When speaking of man-made heritage we are concerned with works of man and
the effects of his activities in the environment rather than with moveable human
artifacts or those environments that are natural and completely undisturbed by
man.”
The guidelines state one may distinguish broadly between two basic ways of visually
experiencing cultural heritage resources in the environment, that is, as cultural heritage
landscapes and as built heritage. Cultural heritage landscapes are a geographical area
perceived as a collection of individual person-made built heritage resources set into a
whole such as historical settlements, farm complexes, waterscapes, roadscapes, railways,
etc. They emphasize the interrelationship of people and the natural environment and
convey information about the processes and activities that have shaped a community.
Cultural heritage landscapes may be organically evolved landscapes as opposed to
designed landscapes. Some are ‘continuing landscapes’, which maintain the historic use
and continue to evolve, while others are ‘relict landscapes’ where the evolutionary
process has come to an end but important landscape or built heritage resources from its
historic use are still visible.
Built heritage comprises individual, person-made or modified, parts of a cultural heritage
landscape such as buildings or structures of various types including, but not limited to,
cemeteries, planting and landscaping structures, etc.
The guidelines also describe the attributes necessary for the identification and evaluation
of any discrete aggregation of person-made features or cultural heritage landscapes and
the attributes necessary for the identification and evaluation of built heritage resources.
3.0
ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY
3.1
Introduction
For the purposes of this built heritage resource and cultural heritage landscape
assessment Unterman McPhail Associates undertook the following tasks:
o the identification of major historical themes and activities of the study area
through historical research and a review of topographical and historical mapping;
o the identification of built heritage resources and cultural heritage landscapes
within and adjacent to the study area through major historical themes and
activities, historical mapping and a review of the municipal heritage inventories
and municipal heritage registers;
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o windshield surveys of the study area to identify any built heritage resources and
principal cultural heritage landscapes of forty years and older located within or
adjacent to the right-of-way, as well as any other built heritage resources less than
forty years of age deemed to be of cultural heritage interest;
o preparation of a built heritage resource and cultural heritage landscape assessment
Existing Conditions Report (ECR) for both study areas.
o analysis of the recommended route, station and platform locations and related
transit structures to identify potential impacts to cultural heritage resources.
o preparation of a Cultural Heritage Assessment Report (CHAR).
Unterman McPhail Associates undertook a windshield survey of the Eglinton Crosstown
Light Rail (LRT) study corridor from Martin Grove Road to Kennedy Road study
corridor in January 2009. A windshield survey of the Lester B. Pearson International
Airport Extension was undertaken in March 2009. A windshield survey of Eglinton West
at Mount Dennis was completed in January 2010.
3.2
Public Consultation and Recognition
Lester B. Pearson International Airport Extension
The City of Mississauga, the City of Mississauga Cultural Landscape Inventory (January
2005) and the City of Mississauga Heritage Register were consulted in regard to cultural
heritage issues. One (1) property within or adjacent to the study corridor was identified as
a cultural heritage resource, namely,
o Pearson International Airport (F-TC-1) listed as an identified cultural heritage
landscape on the City inventory.
The City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties was consulted. One (1) property
within Lester B. Pearson International Airport Extension study corridor is listed on the
City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties as a cultural heritage property, namely,
o Richview Cemetery on Eglinton Avenue. It is adjacent to the corridor in the
400/427 interchange.
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Grove Road to Kennedy TTC Station study corridor are included on the City of Toronto
Inventory of Heritage Properties. Three (3) of the properties within the study corridor are
designated under the Ontario Heritage Act:
o 400 Eglinton Avenue West—Commercial, Eglinton Theatre (1934) municipally
designated under the Ontario Heritage Act. The theatre designation also includes
the following commercial buildings in front of the Eglinton Theatre at the
municipal addresses of: 402, 404, 406, 408, 410 and 412 Eglinton Avenue West.
o 2690 Eglinton Avenue West—Educational, York Memorial Collegiate Institute;
municipally designated under the Ontario Heritage Act; and,
o 770 Don Mills Road, Ontario Science Centre built in 1967, designed by Raymond
Moriyama.
Seven (7) properties are listed on the City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties as
cultural heritage properties:
o 300 Eglinton Avenue East—Apartment, built 1964 and designed by Architect
Uno Prii;
o 1940 Eglinton Avenue East—Commercial, Volkswagen Building;
o 641 Eglinton Avenue West —Public, Forest Hill Fire Hall and Police Station built
1932;
o 790 Eglinton Avenue West— Residential, Forest Hill Manor built 1940;
o 2700 Eglinton Avenue West—Public York, Civic Centre built 1950;
o 4200 Eglinton Avenue West —Residential, Mary Reid House built 1939; and,
o 844 Don Mils Road—former IBM offices and factory built 1950.
These municipally recognized cultural heritage resources are included with a photograph
in Tables 1 and 2 of this report.
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HISTORICAL SUMMARY
4.1
Township of Etobicoke, Township of York and Township of Scarborough,
County of York
City of Toronto, Heritage Preservation Services was contacted and the City of Toronto
Inventory of Heritage Properties consulted in regard to cultural heritage issues. Ten (10)
properties within and adjacent to the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) Martin
In 1788, Lord Dorchester, Governor of Canada divided the western part of the old
province of Quebec into four administrative districts, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nassau
and Hesse. A judge and sheriff were appointed for each one. Quebec was subsequently
split into Upper and Lower Canada in 1791. When John Graves Simcoe became the
Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada he subdivided the four districts into 19 counties
for the purpose of parliamentary representation and military organization. The County of
York was one of the original counties established in 1791. In the same year the districts
were renamed. The Township of York and the Township of Scarborough were included
within the County of York in the Home District, formerly Nassau District.
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This municipally recognized cultural heritage resource is included with a photograph in
Tables 1 of this report.
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A row of eleven townships was laid out in 1791 along Lake Ontario in a westerly
direction from the Trent River. The future Etobicoke, York and Scarborough formed the
three most westerly townships. Augustus Jones, Deputy Provincial Surveyor, undertook
the initial survey along the fronts of the townships of Etobicoke, York and Scarborough
in 1791. Mr. Aitkin assisted in Etobicoke Township. Additional work was carried out in
subsequent years to complete the surveys. A significant impetus to growth in the region
came in 1796 with Simcoe’s selection of York as the new capital of Upper Canada.
Simcoe erected the defences at Fort York, laid out a nearby town site, built a sawmill on
the Humber River and undertook the construction of Yonge Street from York to Lake
Simcoe for military purposes.
Townships. By the mid 1820s, stagecoaches travelled up and down Yonge Street on a
regular basis.
Etobicoke was first surveyed in 1793. The mapping of the township was carried out in
intervals over a number of years until 1838. The northern part of Township of Etobicoke
was surveyed in concessions running north-south, the western three concessions being
numbered, and the eastern ones referred to as A, B, and C. The southern portion was
surveyed into smaller rows of concessions, some numbered from west to east and others
running north to south. The Humber River formed the boundary between Etobicoke and
York Townships.
Dundas Street was opened as a principal transportation route from York to the west in the
1790s, and was extended to Lambton Mills on the Humber River, then into Etobicoke
Township and westward to Toronto Township in Peel County and onward to
southwestern Ontario. An Aboriginal trail, know referred to as The Toronto Carrying
Place/Humber Trail ran along the Humber River from Lake Ontario to the upper Great
Lakes and the north and became a shortcut to the upper Great Lakes for traders,
explorers, and missionaries. Scarlett Road was named for local mill owner John Scarlett
who settled in the area during the 1820s and built a mill on the west bank of the Humber
River in 1821 just south of the Richview Sideroad.
The Township of York originally encompassed all of the land between Victoria Park
Avenue in the east, the Humber River in the west, Lake Ontario in the south and Steeles
Avenue in the north. Three southern concessions were surveyed parallel to Humber Bay
in 1793. The rest was surveyed with concessions set 1- miles apart, extending east to
west. Yonge Street formed the centre north-south concession line within the township
and concessions were numbered east and west from Yonge Street. Road allowances were
provided between concessions at every fifth lot. Yonge Street was opened as far as
Sheppard Avenue by May 1794 and completed to Lake Simcoe by February 1796. Lots
laid out on either side of Yonge Street were offered as free land grants to potential settlers
providing the specified settlement duties were met.
The Township of Scarborough was surveyed into nine concessions although the four
southerly ones were incomplete on account of the irregular lakeshore. From south to
north they were designated A, B, C, D, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. The fifth concession was only
one-third of the full width. Lots were numbered from 1 to 35 from east to west across the
township. Road allowances were provided between concessions and every second lot.
Generally settled in the early1800s, the three York County townships were transformed
by mid century into agricultural landscapes with small hamlets and villages. Early
settlement focused on Yonge Street within the Township of York. With the outbreak of
the War of 1812, Yonge Street was quickly improved to facilitate the movement of troop
supplies. After the war, land was taken up throughout Etobicoke, York and Scarborough
Settlement in Etobicoke was very sparse during the early 1800s. Settlements grew up
around the mills situated along the Humber River, including John Scarlett's mills on both
the east and west bank of the Humber post 1830; the two mills owned by John Dennis,
northeast corner of Eglinton and Humber River, 1801; the Scarlett-Canning Mill on the
west bank of the Humber east of Scarlett Road above Eglinton, 1831; as well as the mills
at Weston. The principal 19th century roads linking Etobicoke to York were Dundas
Street and Scarlett's Road.
Yonge Street was built as a military road from Lake Ontario to Penetanguishene on the
Great Lakes by Lt-Governor John Graves Simcoe, formed the centre north-south
concession line within York Township. It was opened as far as Sheppard Avenue by May
1794 and completed to Lake Simcoe by February 1796. Eglinton Avenue or the Base
Line ran east and west from Yonge Street along the road allowances between the
concessions in York Township. Weston Road was surveyed from Dundas Street to the
site of Weston on the Humber River in the early 1800s and then extended into Vaughan
Township between 1810 and 1820. It was acquired by the Weston Plank Road Company
in 1841, construction began in 1846 and toll gates were built. In the 1850s, the road
became the responsibility of the municipalities. Scarlett Road was opened cross-country
from Dundas Street to the Scarlett’s Mils on the Humber just south of Eglinton Avenue
soon after the mill opened in the early 1830s.
Smith’s Canadian Gazetteer (1846) described Etobicoke, York and Scarborough as
townships in the Home District. Etobicoke Township had 24,934 acres of land taken up
with 12,516 acres under cultivation. York Township had 55,236 acres of land taken up
with 24,238 acres under cultivation. Scarborough Township had 38,709 acres occupied
with 16,083 acres under cultivation.1 For agricultural purposes the land was considered
less fertile adjacent to Lake Ontario, but it improved considerably to the north with mixed
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forests of pine and hardwood. Etobicoke, York and Scarborough were described as well
settled; York and Scarborough had many good farms. Etobicoke had five gristmills and
nine saw mills in the township; York had eight gristmills and 35 sawmills, and
Scarborough had one gristmill and 18 sawmills.2 Etobicoke’s population in 1842 was
2,467 people; York’s population 5,720 and that of Scarborough 2,750.3 The City of
Toronto, incorporated in 1834, was situated in the south of the Township of York.
1877. It ran to Lambton Mills and then southward through York County to Peel County
and was sold to Canadian Pacific Railway in 1882. The suburban Belt Line Railway was
built in the 1890s as a commuter railway line to service and promote the new suburban
neighbourhoods north of the Toronto limits. It ran north of Eglinton Avenue West from
Yonge Street westward to stations at Forest Hill, Fairbanks and Eglinton Avenue before
travelling southward to Union Station along the existing CN line west at Caledonia Road.
West of Dufferin Street the Base Line or Eglinton Avenue was still a wagon track in
1850, although it was an important road allowance in the township survey. It stopped
abruptly at the Humber River at Dennison's Mill. The route picked up on the west side of
the Humber River in Etobicoke Township and ran as an east-west concession road to
Toronto Township in Peel County. Vaughan Road was built c1850 along a trail used by
the First Nations from Yonge Street along Davenport Road to Bathurst Street and
northwesterly along the alignment of Vaughan Road to Dufferin Street. The Rottenburg
(c1850) and the Browne & Ellis map of York Township (1851) both show Weston Road
and the Yorkville and Vaughan Road as plank roads, Scarlett Road as an improved road
with a bridge over the Humber River at Scarlett’s Mills, the Base Line or Eglinton
Avenue as a generally unsettled concession road and Old Forest Hill Road running
northwesterly from Davenport Road to Bathurst Street along an earlier trail. The Yonge
Street population concentration was located at Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue.
Tremaine’s map (1860) shows the same road configuration. The north-south sideroads of
Jane Street, Keele Street, Dufferin Street and Bathurst Street were opened by the mid
1850s in York Township. The north-south sideroads of Bayview Avenue and Victoria
Park Road, Warden Avenue and Kennedy Road to the east of Yonge Street into
Scarborough Township were opened by the mid 1850s as the Township of York and
Scarborough were settled.
The population in Etobicoke Township increased steadily in the 19th century reaching a
population of 2,985 people in 1871; it was regarded as one of the best agricultural
townships in the Province.4 The township map in the Illustrated Historical Atlas of the
County of York (1878) shows an well-established agricultural landscape with many farm
complexes, small hamlets and villages and an established local road system. In 1885,
Etobicoke Township had many farms fenced in a first-class style, rail and board fences
and three-quarters of the houses and outbuildings on the farms were constructed of brick,
stone or as first class frame buildings.5
Tremaine’s map of York County (1860) shows a settled rural landscape with a welldeveloped network of local roads, numerous farms and scattered villages and hamlets
with mills, schoolhouses and churches in Etobicoke, York and Scarborough Townships.
The Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railroad was built in a north-south direction through
York Township near Caledonia Road in 1853, and later it became the Northern Railway,
the Grand Trunk and the Canadian National Railway (CN). The Illustrated Historical
Atlas of the County of York (1878) shows the Grand Trunk Railway running from
Toronto through York Township to Weston, through Etobicoke to Malton in Peel County
and beyond. The Credit Valley Railway (CVR) was incorporated in February 1871 to
construct a line from Toronto north to Orangeville via Streetsville as competition to the
Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway. Surveys were undertaken in 1873, and construction
began in 1874. However, due to financial problems, the first section of the line from
Parkdale, which was located on the outskirts of Toronto, to Milton was not opened until
2
3
Ibid.
Ibid.
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In the neighbouring Township of York, the population grew steadily and more rapidly
than Etobicoke and Scarborough in the 1800s reaching 8,502 people by the 1871 Census
and 13,748 by the 1881 Census.6 The growth of the City of Toronto contributed to this
sharp increase in population as a result of the suburban development of lands within the
township for overflow city population. The township map in the Illustrated Historical
Atlas of the County of York (1878) shows an well-established agricultural landscape with
farm complexes, mills, numerous hamlets and villages and an established local road
system in the northern part of the township outside of Toronto. Nearly five-sixths of the
60,923 acres of occupied land was improved for crops, pasture and orchards and
gardens..7 In 1885, the Township of York was reported as having one half the farms
under first-class fencing, and two-thirds of the houses and outbuildings built of stone,
brick or first-class frame.8 Prospect Cemetery opened in 1890 on the south side of
Eglinton Avenue West between McRoberts Avenue and Harvie Avenue. In 1899 the
township side roads through to Weston Road at Mount Dennis were officially named.
By 1850, Scarborough had three gristmills and 18 sawmills and a population of 3,821
people.9 The population of 4,615 in 1871 had decreased to 4,208 by 1881 as a result of
emigration to the west. The township map in the Illustrated Historical Atlas of the
4
“An Historical Sketch of the County of York, Etobicoke Township”, Illustrated Historical Atlas of the
County of York (Toronto, On.: Myles & Co., 1878) xxi.
5
Charles Mulvany, Charles Pelham et al., History of Toronto and County of York, Ontario, Volume II, Part
I (Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson, Publisher, 1885) 102.
6
Charles Mulvany, Charles Pelham et al., History of Toronto and County of York, Ontario, Volume II, Part
III, 80.
7
Ibid.
8
Ibid, 82.
9
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County of York (1878) shows an well-established agricultural landscape with many farm
complexes, small hamlets and villages and an established local road system. By 1881,
36,225 acres of the 43,634 occupied were improved.10 The Township of Scarborough was
further described as having about half the land is under first-class fences, the material
employed being generally rails and posts, two-thirds of the houses built in brick, stone or
first-class frame and the remaining one-third being log or inferior frame, two-thirds of the
outbuildings are also reckoned first-class.11
Fairbanks at Dufferin Street until W. W. II. Subdivision of land for residential estates
south of Eglinton Avenue West increased in the 1920s. The intersection of Keele Street
and Eglinton Avenue West experienced some development in the early 20th century,
principally south of Eglinton Avenue West and on the northeast corner of the
intersection. York Memorial Collegiate Institute was built in a rural setting on the north
side of Eglinton Avenue West to the west of Keele Street in 1929. The school's name was
a tribute to former local students who had died as soldiers during the World War I.
The southern part of Etobicoke Township was developed more readily in the early 20th
century, while the northern part remained rural and agricultural in character with a few
small hamlets. Richview Side Road with a hamlet of Richview located at Martin Grove
Road ran between the western township boundary and the Humber River. The Humber
Valley Survey of Home Smith & Co. was developed on both sides of Eglinton Avenue
between Islington Avenue and Royal York Road in the early 20th century. Until post
W.W. II Eglinton Avenue remained largely undeveloped in Etobicoke, with the exception
of the Home Smith lands. Highway 27 north of Eglinton was an unopened road
allowance until it was built north to south through the western part of Etobicoke in 1937.
Increased urbanization in the area during the 1950s, the expropriation of land for the
construction of Highway 401 and the Malton Airport, the construction of Highway 427
and the rapid growth of large residential suburban areas resulted in the agricultural
demise in Richview.
Eglinton Avenue West between Keele Street to the Allan Road developed in the mid 20th
century as a commercial and residential area. The area around Eglinton Avenue West
between Gilbert Street and Oakwood Avenue received a development boost in the early
20th century due to the Oakwood Street Railway, part of the Township of York Railway
Company, which ran along Eglinton Avenue. The Oakwood Line (1924) ran from St.
Clair to Eglinton and then west to Gilbert Street on Eglinton just west of Prospect
Cemetery. By building the street railway west along Eglinton Avenue West from
Oakwood Avenue to the new industries established on the Canadian Northern Railway
and the Belt Line, York Township's growth in the west part was determined for the next
two decades. Housing sprang up within walking distance of the railway.
In the early 20th century York Township continued to be reduced in area with the
incorporation of the Town of North Toronto on Yonge Street in 1912 and several years
later, the incorporation of the Township of North York in 1922. The Village of Forest
Hill was incorporated in 1923, the Township of York in 1924, and the Town of Leaside
in 1925. The Township of North York took in part of the northern section of York
Township, separating the agricultural areas in the northern part from the residential
development is south of Eglinton Avenue West.
The Canadian Pacific built a line that ran from the Toronto Junction eastward and then in
a northwesterly direction east of Yonge Street to the east side of Leslie Street at Eglinton
Avenue before it crossed the West Branch of the Don River. The Canadian Northern
Ontario Railway was built west of Don Mills Road along the Don River in 1905.
The area north of Eglinton Avenue in York Township was still largely open farmland
with scattered settlements in the early 1900s. Eglinton Avenue was improved between of
Dufferin Street and the Kodak Company to the west at Mount Dennis in 1916, but still
did not cross the Humber River into Etobicoke Township. The road remained essentially
rural in character outside of the communities of Mount Dennis at Weston Road and
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11
Ibid.
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More commercial development occurred post World War II east of Vaughan Road to the
Allen Road. The Beth Sholom congregation built a synagogue in 1947 just east of Marlee
Street. The Spadina Expressway from Highway 401 was completed as far south as
Eglinton Avenue West in 1969, and renamed Allen Road in 1980. The Eglinton West
TTC station was built at Allen Road in 1978 as part of the subway extension from St.
George Station to Wilson Avenue. The commercial district on Eglinton Avenue West
between Allen Road and Bathurst Street, now referred to as "Eglinton West Village",
emerged in the 1950s as a commercial streetscape with some low-rise apartment
buildings.
The area between Bathurst Street to Bayview Avenue along Eglinton Avenue was located
in the City of Toronto prior to amalgamation. From Bathurst Street east to Spadina Road
low-rise apartment buildings were built from the 1930s to the 1950s. The Village of
Forest Hill, named after the summer residence of John Wickson built on a hill at the
junction of Eglinton Avenue West and Old Forest Hill Road in 1860, was incorporated as
a village in 1923. Its municipal boundaries stretched along Eglinton Avenue West with
the north side from Avon Avenue to Bathurst Street in the village. From Bathurst Street
to just past Spadina Road both sides of Eglinton Avenue West were within the village
and then only the south side eastward to Elmsthorpe Avenue. Forest Hill's building codes
and bylaws in the 1920's and 1930’s required an architect design houses. Lower Forest
Hill south of Eglinton was developed by the 1930's. The Forest Hill Fire Station was built
in 1932. Upper Forest Hill did not really develop until the 1950s and 1960s due to the
presence of the Belt Line railway and industry. The Forest Hill Public Library and Forest
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Hill Collegiate, the Cenotaph and are located beside each other at 2694 and 2700
Eglinton Avenue West, respectively.
On Eglinton Avenue West between Chaplin Crescent and Yonge Street, the Art Deco
Eglinton Theatre was built in 1934. The City of Toronto bought Eglinton Park in 1926 as
the "North Toronto Athletic Field" and renamed the field Eglinton Park in 1929. The
former town of North Toronto located at the intersection of Yonge Street and Eglinton
Avenue West was annexed by the City of Toronto in 1912. Development along Eglinton
Avenue accelerated after this annexation and the area was completely developed by the
1940's. East of the intersection of Yonge Street, Eglinton Avenue East developed in the
1920s and 1930s as a residential streetscape with some commercial development at
intersections as far east as Bayview Avenue. Eglinton Avenue East stopped at Leslie
Street and there was no through road into Scarborough Township along this route until
the mid 1950s.
Scarborough Township generally continued in agricultural use with a network of small
hamlets supporting the rural population. Mid 20th century topographic maps depict the
largely rural landscape of Etobicoke and Scarborough Townships and the increasingly
urban area of York Township north of Eglinton Avenue. In the second half of the 20th
century, after World War II, the more rural areas of the Townships of Etobicoke, York,
North York and Scarborough underwent a dramatic change. The population of Etobicoke,
York, North York and Scarborough increased tremendously in the second half of the 20th
century. Topographic maps (1964 and 1979) clearly depict the rapid urbanization of the
Etobicoke, York and Scarborough.
The return of service personal after World War II, combined with an influx of new
immigrants, contributed to a period of growth and expansion. The Municipality of
Metropolitan Toronto was incorporated on April 15, 1953, uniting Etobicoke, North York
and Scarborough along with other municipalities under a common government. Young
families embraced the suburbs and the townships planned aggressively for businesses and
industries to balance the growing residential tax base. The first shopping centres were
built in the 1950s, apartment buildings, first low-rise followed by high-rise buildings,
were built around newly developed arterial roads and highways.
In Etobicoke, residential subdivisions and commercial plazas were built in the 1950s and
1960s along Eglinton Avenue West as the northern part of Etobicoke was urbanized.
Richview Collegiate was built at Eglinton Avenue and Islington Avenue in 1958,
Martingrove Collegiate at Martingrove Road was built in the mid 1960s, and Richview
Plaza in the late 1960s to the east of Kipling Avenue to service the new subdivisions.
Increased urbanization in Etobicoke during the 1950s, the expropriation of land for the
construction of Highway 401 and the Malton Airport, the construction of Highway 427
and the rapid growth of large residential suburban areas resulted in the agricultural
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demise of the township. Etobicoke Township became the Borough of Etobicoke in 1967.
Highway 427 was built along the route of Highway 27 in the 1970s. The 19th century
Richview Cemetery was isolated on the south side of Eglinton Avenue West at the
Highway 427/Highway 401 interchange at this time. The borough was reincorporated as
a city in 1983.
In post W.W. II York Township, the area around Keele Street and Eglinton Avenue in
York Township experienced some development post W. W. II, and in 1950 it became the
site of the former York Municipal Offices. The York Township Cenotaph was opened in
1958, and the Centennial Museum building was opened between York Memorial and the
York Municipal offices in 1967. More post W.W. II commercial development occurred
east of Vaughan Road to the Allen Road in York Township. The Beth Sholom
congregation built a synagogue in 1947 just east of Marlee Street. In 1967, York
Township absorbed Weston and became the Borough of York, later known as the City of
York. North York became the Borough of North York in 1967, and on February 14,
1979, the City of North York.
At Yonge Street, the TTC established the Eglinton Subway Station at the intersection in
1954 as its northern point. Several bus and trolley bus routes converged on this station to
connect with the subway and a large, multi-platform bus terminal with nine parallel bus
platforms was built on the southwest corner of the intersection. Platform 10, which was
built outside the paid fare area on the west side of the site on Duplex Avenue, was
brought into the fare-paid area in 1958. The terminal was later expanded to include
Platforms 11, 12 and 13. The site also housed the Eglinton garage, formerly the Eglinton
carhouse. With the arrival of the subway, the intersection was redeveloped with office
and residential towers, and shopping centres. In the 1960s, large scale development took
place along of Eglinton Avenue around Yonge Street with apartment blocks like 300
Eglinton Avenue East by Uno Prii (1964), and high-rise office towers. Canada Square,
was opened in stages starting in 1962. The Yonge-Eglinton Centre was opened on the
northwest corner of the intersection in stages in 1974 and 1975.
Metropolitan Toronto was created as a governmental level in 1954 and it included
Etobicoke, York, North York and Scarborough. Metro Toronto undertook several
improvements on Eglinton Avenue West in the 1950s and 1960s including its extension
over the Humber River into Etobicoke on the west and over the Don River into
Scarborough to the east in 1956, improvements to the east of Weston Road in the mid
1960s with the replacement of the CN grade separation track with a rail overhead
structure and the construction of retaining walls on either side of Eglinton Avenue, a new
road bridge over Eglinton Avenue West to provide access to the Kodak Plant, and a new
road bridge over Black Creek in 1966. With the extension of Eglinton Avenue to the west
into Etobicoke, Metro Toronto took over the rural road of the Richview Side Road
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between Highway 427 to the Humber River as its route. At the time, Metro Toronto set
aside land on both sides of the Eglinton Avenue West for expansion or an expressway.
In the west, Black Creek Drive was developed in the 1970s as part of the Province’s
Highway 400 Extension that was to run south to the Gardiner Expressway. After the
project was abandoned, the extension was referred to as the Northwest Arterial Road.
When completed in 1982, it was named Black Creek Drive.
The Spadina Expressway from Highway 401 was completed as far south as Eglinton
Avenue West in 1969, and renamed Allen Road in 1980. The Eglinton West TTC station
was built at Allen Road in 1978 as part of the subway extension from St. George Station
to Wilson Avenue. In the 1950s, a commercial district on Eglinton Avenue West between
Allen Road and Bathurst Street, was developed with some low-rise apartment buildings.
To the east, the IBM plant was built in 1950 on the west side of Don Mills Road just
north of Eglinton Avenue East when Eglinton Avenue East was under construction and
the land east of Don Mills Road was still rural in character. Other office, industrial and
commercial, sites were developed around the Eglinton and Don Mills Road intersection
in the 1960s including, but not limited to, the Imperial Oil Building (1963) at the corner
of Eglinton and Don Mills Road, and the Inn on the Park (1963) at No. 1100 Eglinton
Avenue East. The Ontario Science Centre, set back from Eglinton Avenue East on Don
Mills Road, was built on the southwest corner overlooking the West Don River in 1967.
The Don Valley Parkway (DVP) was built as part of an expressway plan initiated by
Metro Toronto government in the 1950s. When completed in 1966, the present
interchange at Eglinton Avenue East was opened. The Village of Leaside as amalgamated
with neighboring Borough of East York in 1967.
In Scarborough, residential, industrial and commercial development rebounded like the
municipalities of Etobicoke and York immediately after W.W. II due to the demand of
returning war veterans for housing and jobs. As a result, the township experienced
tremendous population growth and development from the 1950s into the latter part of the
20th century. Prior to World War II, Eglinton Avenue Road east of Victoria Park Avenue
was open farmland. In the early 1940s, several wartime factories were built. After the
war, the Township of Scarborough bought the land for municipal use, selling the excess
land to private industry. The development of "The Golden Mile", patterned after the
Golden Mile in London, England, stretched from Victoria Park Avenue east to Warden
Avenue, and was the site of intensive industrial and commercial development in the
1950s and 1960s. It included the Eglinton Square Shopping Centre built at Victoria Park
Avenue and Pharmacy Avenue. By the late 1950s Eglinton Avenue East between
Pharmacy Avenue and Warden Avenue had been developed with numerous industrial
plants such as Canada Foils Ltd. Frigidaire Products of Canada Limited, Rootes Motors
(Canada) Ltd., and Canadian S. K. F. Co. Ltd. east of Sinnott Road. The Volkswagen
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Canada Ltd. building was built on the north side at No. 1940 Eglinton Avenue West at
Warden Avenue. The Victoria Paper Co. Ltd., Renault Automobiles Canada Ltd., and
Canadian Thermos Products Ltd. buildings were constructed on the north side of Eglinton
Avenue East west of Thermos Road and the Lucas-Rotox Ltd. Aircraft Equipment to the
east of Thermos Road. Ionview was developed on Eglinton Avenue East from east of
Birchmount Avenue to just past Kennedy Road as a post W.W. II housing development.
The Kennedy TTC Station opened in 1980.
The Cities of Etobicoke, York and Scarborough and the Borough of East York were
amalgamated into the new City of Toronto in 1998.
4.1.1 Former Hamlets and Villages
Richview
The original community of Richview in Etobicoke Township was established in 1852. In
1886, the post office was moved to the southwest corner of Concession 3, fronting on the
Humber and Richview Side Road. By the 1880s, defined boundaries for the community
had been established that corresponded with the School Section #4, Etobicoke. They
consisted of Dixon Road on the north, Renforth Drive on the west, Rathburn Road on the
south and Kipling on the east. The community consisted mainly of scattered farmsteads,
Richview Church, Richview Cemetery and a school. The hamlet of Richview disappeared
in the second half of the 20th century with urbanization and highway development.
Mount Dennis
Named after the Dennis family the community of Mount Dennis developed from an early
19th century sawmill and a woollen factory site to several brickyards, gravel pits, and
market gardens on the Eglinton Flats and a school, post office and some general stores on
Weston Road in the late 19th century. The Kodak Company was established on Eglinton
Avenue West, east of Mount Dennis, in 1916. During the 1950's Mount Dennis grew
from a rural community to an urban neighbourhood.
Fairbanks
The community of Fairbanks centred at Eglinton Avenue West and Dufferin Street and
stretching eastward on Eglinton Avenue West to Vaughan Road was established in the
19th century, and developed more rapidly in the early 20th century.
Forest Hill
Forest Hill, named after the summer residence of John Wickson built on a hill at the
junction of Eglinton Avenue West and Old Forest Hill Road in 1860, was incorporated as
a village in 1923. Forest Hill's building codes and bylaws in the 1920's and 1930’s
required an architect to design the village houses, thus creating a unique residential area.
Lower Forest Hill south of Eglinton was developed by the 1930's. The Forest Hill Fire
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Station located at No. 641 Eglinton Avenue West on the south side of Eglinton was built
in 1932. North of Eglinton Avenue West, Upper Forest Hill did not really develop until
the 1950s and 1960s due to the presence of the Belt Line railway and industry. Spadina
Road meets Eglinton Avenue West in the valley where the old Belt Line Railroad once
ran. Forest Hill Collegiate built in 1948, and the Forest Hill Public Library built in 1963
west located on the north side of Eglinton to the west of Chaplin Crescent.
Eglinton/North Toronto
The hamlet of Eglinton was established at the intersection of Eglinton Avenue and Yonge
Street in the 19th century. It became part of the town of North Toronto in 1890, a
primarily agricultural farming community with large parcels of subdivided land held by
speculators. Housing construction began in the 1890s when North Toronto became the
northernmost stop on the Metropolitan Street Railway. The community was annexed by
the City of Toronto in 1912. Development accelerated after annexation and the area was
completely developed by the 1940's.
Leaside
The former 19th century railway station stop named Leaside developed in the early 20th
century as a planned residential community–a model town to be the new upper class
residential area of Toronto (the new Rosedale). Frederick Todd prepared village plans
separating the residential and industrial areas, and the Town of Leaside was incorporated
in 1913. In the same year, Canada Wire and Cable became Leaside's first industry. The
Leaside Munitions Factory and a airfield were established during World War I. As
industry prospered, workers’ houses were built. Although the Leaside Housing Company
received a provincial loan to build working class houses in 1919, the work did not
proceed due to transportation problems. The Leaside Viaduct was built across the Don
Valley in 1927 and a high level bridge and an underpass was built below the railway line.
Residential construction began in the 1930s and continued into the 1950s. The Town of
Leaside was incorporated in 1925 and became part of the Borough of East York in 1967.
4.2
Township of Toronto Gore and Toronto, County of Peel
The land survey of Toronto Gore Township was completed in 1819. The Gore Road was
opened in 1822 to facilitate the movement of settlers to Toronto Gore and Albion
Townships. The initial Euro-Canadian development stage of survey, settlement and land
clearing took place between 1818-1840. Early settlers built log dwellings and cleared
patches of land for subsistence crops, and were responsible for clearing the survey road
allowance along his or her property boundary. Land clearance in the township accelerated in
the 1830s, and settlers had taken up all lots by 1840, with a large number of the settlers in
Toronto Gore being of Irish background. Some of the concession and sideroads were cleared
and maintained by the statue labour for land transportation. Early settlers along The Gore
Road included Elisha Lawrence, who located on Lot 2, Concession 9 ND in 1822 a year
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before the Crown Patent,12 and John McVean, who settled on Lot 3, Concession 9 ND about
the same time. Both received their land as payment for their work on the building of The
Gore Road.
The second development stage of land clearance and the creation of the agricultural
landscape in Toronto Gore generally occurred between 1840-1875. The township
developed from subsistence farming in the early 1800s to a wheat growing area in the
mid-1800s. As the settlement of the land began to take place, small hamlets were
established at strategic places within the developing agricultural landscape to provide
services to the local population.
Smith’s Canadian Gazetteer (1846) describes Toronto Gore Township as being,
…a wedge-shaped township, of small size, with its base towards the township of
Albion. It is watered by the branches of the River Humber, and contains some
good land. It is well-settled, principally by Irish and Scotch, with a few Canadians;
and a large portion of the township is under cultivation. There is one gristmill in the
township. Population in 1842, 1,145.
In 1848, Toronto Gore Township had a population of 1683 people, 309 occupied homes, 2
schools, 3 inns and 213 farmers, 9 wagon makers, 7 blacksmiths, 6 innkeepers as well as
other occupations.13 As the township was settled the local road network improved. In 1845,
a group of men promoted the extension of the plank road from Weston to Claireville.
Tremaine’s map (1859) depicts a settled landscape with the farmsteads generally
established on the north-south concession roads. The settlements in the southern tip of the
Gore in the late 1850s included Grahamsville, Claireville and Malton, which was on the
border with Toronto Township. Wheat was the principal agricultural crop grown in the
township prior to 1870. From the 1850s to the 1890s there was a consistent increase in the
acreage of cultivated township land. Ontario farmers began to turn to higher cost cash
crops and animal husbandry in the 1870s. The third development stage of the landscape
extended from the mid 1870s into the mid 20th century and comprised the settlement into a
pattern of established farm complexes and field patterns, and the mechanization of the
farms. The Illustrated Historical Atlas (1877) indicates Gore Township contained
prosperous farmsteads with orchards, farmhouses and barns.
Toronto Township was formed on August 2, 1805, when officials from York purchased
land, an area extending from Burlington Bay to the Etobicoke Creek, from the
Mississaugas. With this "First Purchase", the Mississaugas retained some fishing rights
and one mile of land on either side of the Credit River. This area became known as the
Old Survey. Samuel Wilmot completed the survey of the southern half or the Old Survey
12
13
Geo. Tavender, From This Year Hence (rpt. 1967; 1984) 28.
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of Toronto Township in 1806, and the area was opened up for Euro-Canadian settlement,
principally United Empire Loyalists who had emigrated from the United States after the
American War of Independence and received land grants from the British Government
for their service and loyalty. The northern area or New Survey of Toronto Township was
acquired by the British government in 1818 and surveyed in 1819. Administratively
Toronto Township was located in the Home District during the early 19th century.
The principal transportation roads in Toronto Township were opened in the first part of
the 19th century. Dundas Street, also known as the Governor’s Road, was opened in the
early 19th century as a principal military route between York and London. Lakeshore
Road, also opened in the early 19th century, was a principal transportation route along the
northern shore of Lake Ontario and provided a link between York (Toronto) and
settlements to its west. Hurontario Street, which divided the township into east and west
parts, was opened soon after the township survey. As settlement progressed in Toronto
Township, other roads were opened in the first half of the 19th century including Eglinton
Avenue, known as the Base Line because it was the boundary line between the old and
new surveys.
In the early settlement years, small crossroad settlements, hamlets and villages were
established within the developing agricultural landscape including Elmbank and Malton.
Elmbank was located at the intersection of Britannia Road and Fifth Line in the mid
1820s, and the village of Malton was established in the north corner of Toronto Township
at the same time.
Smith’s Canadian Gazetteer (1846) describes Toronto Township as follows:
This is one of the best settled townships in the Home District: it contains a large
portion of very excellent land, and a number of well cultivated farms. For from two to
three miles from the lake the land is light and sandy, and the timber principally pine;
afterwards, it becomes rolling, and the timber the best kinds of hardwood. The
Rivers, Credit and Etobicoke both run through the township….There are four grist
and twenty-one saw mills in the township. Population in 1842: 5,377.14
Tremaine’s map (1859) shows the communities of Malton and Grahamsville in the New
Survey on the eastern boundary line with York County. The Grand Trunk Railway ran
through the northeast corner of the Township, passing through Malton. The township had
developed into an agricultural landscape from the shoreline of Lake Ontario to the
northern township boundary. The Toronto Township map contained in the Illustrated
Historical Atlas (1877) shows a well-developed agricultural landscape with numerous
farmsteads, a local road system and hamlets and villages.
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Although the wheat economy of Peel County had ended by the 1880s, agriculture in
Toronto Gore Township adapted and it continued to prosper throughout the remainder of
the nineteenth century, despite a population loss in Peel County in the second half of the
19th century. Family farms were retained and worked with increasing mechanization.
Second and third generation farm improvements included drainage, wind breaks, fence
lines, hedgerows and maintained road allowances. Buildings were improved with new
and larger barns and farmhouses.
Twentieth century topographical maps show Toronto Gore Township and Toronto
Township north of the lakeshore remained, for the most part, rural in use and character
into the latter part of the 20th century. Landscape changes as a result of the urban
transformation of the land in Toronto Gore began in the 1960s and accelerated in the
1970s. Change has continued to the present with the introduction of non-agricultural land
uses, including residential suburban development of the landscape and modern
improvements to roads and bridges. In Toronto Township, there was steady progress of
development northward from the lakefront in the 20th century.
Malton Airport was opened in 1939 at Derry Road and Airport Road on the boundary line
with Etobicoke Township in York County. The hamlet of Elmbank began to disappear in
the 1930s and 1950s with the expropriation of rural land for the Malton Airport. The
Elmbank Catholic Cemetery was located on the tarmac alongside a runway for many
years and was relocated to Assumption Cemetery in Mississauga in 2001.15 The village of
Malton became the site of an airport, now Toronto Pearson International Airport. Post
World War II development accelerated in the 1950s. The 400-series Highway 401 was
introduced into the landscape in the early 1960s the south; while the Mississauga section
of Highway 403 was opened in 1982.
The Township of Toronto Gore was amalgamated into the new City of Brampton and
Toronto Township became part of the City of Mississauga on January 1, 1974 when the
Regional Municipality of Peel was created.
4.2.1 Former Hamlets and Village
Elmbank
The intersection of Britannia Road and Fifth Line was developed as the crossroad hamlet
of Elmbank in the mid 1820s. It comprised a corner store and post office, a blacksmith, a
carriage maker and a cheese factory. The post office operated from April 1, 1873. to July
1, 1915. Elmbank was the site of the Catholic Mission and Cemetery with a church and
cemetery (1833) and a rectory located just north of the Britannia Road and Fifth Line
intersection. This original log church was replaced in 1885 by a red brick church, which
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was demolished in 1932. The hamlet also contained a blacksmith shop, a store and a
carriage factory on the southwest corner of the intersection, an inn on the northeast
corner, and a schoolhouse on the northwest side. A short distance south on Fifth Line was
the Bethany Wesleyan Methodist Church and Cemetery, while a little to the west on
Britannia Road there was a cheese factory. The Bethany Church, originally built as
Shell’s Chapel in 1831, was replaced with a brick structure around 1862. Elmbank began
to disappear in the 1930s and 1950s with the expropriation of rural land and the
expansion of the Malton Airport.16
Malton
IN the 1820s, the village of Malton was established on Lot 11, Concession 6 NDS,
Toronto Township, on the border with Toronto Gore Township. In the 1840s, local
blacksmith and innkeeper Richard Halliday named the settlement Malton, after his home
in England. The introduction of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1854, provided better access
to Toronto markets for local farmers. The village was subdivided in 1855 and it became
the county seat in 1859 for a year. In the late 1860s, its economic prosperity was not
sustainable and Malton became a small population centre in the township. It remained as
such until 1937 when there was a major shift from agricultural to an industrial economy
as a result of the area being selected as the site of an airport. The airport provided
wartime prosperity during the 1940s and continued to be an integral part of the economy
in the post-war years. The town experienced a populating growth after W.W. II through
to the 1960s. Malton was incorporated into the town 1967, and then in to the City of
Mississauga in 1974.
4.3
Lester B. Pearson International Airport
Malton Airport was created on farmland purchased by the Toronto Harbour Commission
in 1937. Opened in 1939 and named for its location near the small village of Malton, the
airport site was bounded by Derry Road to the north and Airport Road (6th Line) to the
east, Elmbank Side Road to the south and Torbram Road (5th Line) to the west. The first
terminal building was built in 1938, The City of Toronto bought Malton Airport in 1940
and it was used as a military training airport. An air traffic control centre was built in
1942; the airport served as a British Commonwealth Air Training Plan facility during
W.W. II.
A second terminal was built along Airport Road in 1949 to replace the first terminal.
Land to the south of Elmbank Side Road and westwards past Torbram to Dixie Road was
expropriated for expansion. It eventually subsumed the village of Elmbank. Transport
Canada obtained control of Malton Airport in 1958, and the airport was renamed Toronto
International Airport in 1960. Terminal 1 designed by John Parkin was built between
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1957 and 1964. The second terminal was demolished in the late 1960s to make way for
the Terminal 1 building. Terminal 2, originally intended as a freight terminal, was opened
in 1972. A passenger tunnel with moving sidewalks connected Terminal 2 connected to
Terminal 1.The airport was renamed the Toronto Pearson International Airport in 1984,
in honour of former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. Terminal 3 opened in 1991.
Management responsibilities of the Toronto Pearson Airport were transferred from
Transport Canada to the Greater Toronto Airports Authority in 1996. Work began to
replace Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 with a new Terminal 1, which along with a Terminal
3 would become the two passenger terminal facilities at Toronto Pearson. To ensure the
ability of Toronto Pearson to accommodate its growing aircraft volume, substantial
redevelopment of the airside and infield systems took place. Terminal 2 closed on
January 29, 2007 and airlines moved to the newly completed Pier F at Terminal 1.
Demolition of Terminal 2 began in April 2007.
5.0
IDENTIFICATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES
AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES
5.1
Introduction
For the purposes of built heritage and cultural heritage landscape identification, this
section provides a brief description of the existing environment of the study corridor for
the Lester B. Pearson International Airport Extension and the study corridor for the
Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) Martin Grove Road to Kennedy TTC
Station.
5.2
Description of Existing Environment
Eglinton Avenue is a principal east-west arterial road that crosses Toronto uninterrupted
in a more or less straight line across the entire city passing through residential
neighbourhoods with commercial strips, urban parks and major commercial areas as well
as some green spaces associated with the Humber River system and the Don River
system. Eglinton Avenue West also extends into the City of Mississauga at the western
end of the study corridor.
5.2.1 Lester B. Pearson International Airport Extension
The Airport Extension study area comprises urban commercial and light industrial use
and road infrastructure associated with Highways 401 and 427. Eglinton Avenue West
runs east to west under the intersection of Highways 401 and 427. Highway 27, formerly
the King's Highway No. 27, once extended from Highway 2 in Long Branch to
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Penetanguishene on Georgian Bay in Ontario. In the 1950s, the section of the Highway
27 between the present Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) and Highway 401 was upgraded to
a four-lane freeway. In 1964, the province opened the nearby Airport Expressway to
connect to Lester B. Pearson International Airport, which is identified by the City of
Mississauga as a cultural heritage landscape. The freeway section of Highway 27
between the QEW and Highway 401 was widened to a collector-express system in the
late 1960s. In 1970, a connection to the planned Richview Expressway was built; it is
used presently to provide access to Eglinton Avenue from Highway 427. Highway 27
was re-designated Highway 427 upon completion in 1972. The section of Highway 27
north of Highway 401 remained and the collectors of Highway 427 default onto this
remnant. The freeway portions of Highway 27 and the Airport Expressway, located
between Highway 401 and Highway 409 prior to 1972, were combined to create the
present route of Highway 427, north of Eglinton Avenue West.
Generally in Etobicoke Township, Eglinton Avenue crossed through rural land until post
W. W. II. Metro Toronto planned to use Eglinton Avenue West as part of never-realized
Toronto-Hamilton Expressway, also known as the Richview Expressway. In the 1960s
and 1970s the land located between Martin Grove Road and Renforth Avenue was used
principally to accommodate road infrastructure associated with the 400-series highways
of 401 and 427 and the connection to the proposed Richview Expressway on Eglinton
Avenue West. Eglinton Avenue West was realigned slightly from the original survey
road allowance to pass under the new highway interchange. By the 1970s, residential
development was backlotted onto Eglinton Avenue West on the south side west of
Highway 427.
North of Highway 401, lands associated with the Lester B. Pearson International Airport
located in the northwest quadrant of Highway 427 and Highway 401, include the airport
structures and associated businesses on Convair Drive and Silver Dart Drive. Airport
development began in 1939 as the Malton Airport. It expanded to become became the
Toronto International (1960-1984) and the Toronto Lester B. Pearson International
Airport (1984-present). Secondary roads such as Renforth Drive, International Boulevard,
Carlingview Drive, Skyway Avenue and Galaxy Boulevard were built in the 1960s and
1970s to provide access to industrial development lands between Highway 27 and the
airport lands. The Royal Woodbine Golf Course and Club along the Mimico Creek west
of Skyway Avenue opened in 1990. Silver Dart Road was built to provide airport access
for services. Commercial development occurred along Dixon Road. Lands west of
Renforth Drive and north and south of Highway 401 have been developed into low-rise
office and light industrial areas in the latter part of the 20th century.
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Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) Martin Grove Road to
Kennedy TTC Station
The study area for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT project runs along Eglinton Avenue
across the City of Toronto west to east from Martin Grove Road to Kennedy TTC
Station. Eglinton Avenue is one of the few east-west routes north of Bloor Street that runs
across the entire City of Toronto in an uninterrupted, and generally straight line. It runs
through many city neighbourhoods, generally low-rise residential with commercial use
from Martin Grove Road to Allen Road, principally commercial with areas of medium to
high rise apartment buildings from Allen Road to Don Mills Road and then east to
Kennedy Road. Eglinton Avenue passes through all six former municipalities that made
up Metropolitan Toronto, namely, Etobicoke, York, Toronto, North York, East York and
Scarborough. It also passes through the former incorporated villages of Forest Hill and
Leaside.
The following description of the existing environment is oriented from west to east.
Martin Grove Road to Jane Street
The area is presently characterized by the interchange of Eglinton Avenue West,
Highway 427 and Highway 401. The Richview Cemetery is located in the interchange.
The north side of Eglinton Avenue West comprises a wide green space running parallel to
the road, with the exception of three earlier buildings, namely, Nos. 4480, 4400 and 4200
Eglinton Avenue West. This green space is a result of land acquisition by the Metro
Toronto government for the unrealized Toronto-Hamilton Expressway or Richview
Expressway. Presently a bicycle path and sidewalk corridor is located on the south side of
the Eglinton Avenue West from west of Martingrove Road eastward to Scarlett Road
where it connects with the Humber River trail system. Martingrove Collegiate located at
Eglinton Venue West and Martingrove Road was built in the mid 1960s in a park setting.
The Richview Reservoir and Park is located in the northeast corner of the intersection.
High-rise apartment towers are set back in the green belt found on the north side of
Eglinton Avenue West to the west Kipling Avenue. A wood lot is located in the
northwest quadrant of Eglinton and Kipling Avenue. Richview Plaza, developed in the
late 1960s and set back a distance from Eglinton Avenue West, is located east of Kipling
Avenue.
Richview Collegiate (1958) is located on the southwest corner of Eglinton Avenue West
and Islington Avenue. New apartment buildings and townhouses have replaced earlier
1960s subsidized housing the south side of the road, while a nursery business and highrise apartment towers set back from the road on a rise of land are situated on the north
side of Eglinton Avenue West between Islington Avenue and Scarlett Road. An entrance
to Scarlett Woods Park, part of the Humber Valley trail system, is situated on the
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southeast corner of Eglinton Avenue West and Scarlett Road. Eglinton Avenue West
crosses the Humber River east of Scarlett Road to the Eglinton Flats, with the Scarlet
Woods Golf Course and other recreational spaces on the west side Jane Street.
The Humber River system, a Canadian Heritage River (1999), which includes the
Etobicoke Creek and Mimico Creek, drains into Lake Ontario. The First Nations trail
known as the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail followed the Humber River from Lake
Ontario to the upper Great Lakes and the north and became a convenient shortcut to the
upper Great Lakes for traders, explorers, and missionaries. The Toronto Carrying-Place
Trail has been designated as nationally significant by the Federal Historic Sites and
Monuments Board. The Humber River once formed the eastern boundary of the former
Township of Etobicoke and the western boundary of the Township of York.
Jane Street to Bathurst Street
Until post World War II the north side of Eglinton Avenue West from Jane Street to
Dufferin was generally undeveloped and rural in character with the exception of the small
communities or development at Mount Dennis, Keele Street and Fairbanks at Dufferin
Street. Presently the Humber River Valley east of Jane Street is open public parkland in
the Eglinton Flats area. Eglinton Avenue West then rises out of the valley to the
community of Mount Dennis at Weston Road. To the west of the intersection at Weston
Road and Eglinton Avenue West the area is characterized by a mixed residential buildings
including apartment buildings, single residential houses and townhouses. At Weston Road
the streetscape includes commercial development north of Eglinton Avenue West with a
c1950s Bank of Nova Scotia building on the northeast corner intersection. To the south of
Eglinton Avenue West, the Good Shepherd Church forms a landmark at the intersection
with Weston Road. To the north of this intersection, Locust Street consists of early 20th
century housing built for local industry workers and Hollis Street consists of early 20th
century streetscape of workers housing with gambrel roofs and some post W.W.II
bungalows. On Eglinton Avenue to the east of Weston Road, the only remaining structure
of the former Kodak industrial site is the administrative office. The City has applied to list
this property on the City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties (2006) and to
designate it under the Ontario Heritage Act.
An 1960s CN rail overhead structure, overhead road bridge providing access the Kodak
plant retaining walls on for the underpass on Eglinton Avenue West are located to the
west of Mount Dennis. A 1966 road bridge rehabilitated in 2005 is located to east of
Black Creek Drive over Black Creek. Recreational parkland associated with Keelesdale
Park and Coronation Park are located immediately east side of Black Creek Drive. At the
top of the hill to the east of the intersection of Keele Street and Eglinton Avenue West
and on the north side of the road, the former York Municipal Offices at 2700 Eglinton
Avenue West, the York Township Cenotaph (1958), the Centennial Museum building
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(1967) at 2694 Eglinton Avenue West and York Memorial Collegiate Institute (1929) at
2690 Eglinton Avenue West dominate the streetscape. The former York Municipal Office
is listed on the City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties and York Memorial
Collegiate is municipally designated under the Ontario Heritage Act. Other commercial
buildings including a bank building on the southwest corner contribute to the streetscape
on the south side of Eglinton Avenue West.
Eglinton Avenue West from Keele Street east to the Allan Road is principally comprised
of a streetscape of circa mid 20th commercial and residential development. The north
entrance to Prospect Cemetery (1890) is located on the south side of Eglinton Avenue
West between McRoberts Avenue and Harvie Avenue. A small parkette on the south side
of Eglinton Avenue West, west of Gilbert Avenue, is all that remains of the Oakwood
streetcar loop of the Oakwood Street Railway, which is part of the Township of York
Railway Company. The CN Railway line to the west of Caledonia Road was built as the
Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railroad (1853). Remains of the 1890s Belt Line Railway are
also visible in the landscape.
The community of Fairbanks is centred at Eglinton Avenue West and Dufferin Street and
stretches eastward on Eglinton Avenue West to Vaughan Road. The Beth Sholom
synagogue (1947) is located just east of Marlee Street. The Allen Road, formerly the
Spadina Expressway, runs southward from Highway 401 and ends at Eglinton Avenue
West. The Eglinton West TTC Station stands on Eglinton Avenue West at Allen Road. A
1950s commercial district on Eglinton Avenue West between Allen Road and Bathurst
Street, referred to as "Eglinton West Village", presents a commercial streetscape with
some low-rise apartment buildings.
Bathurst Street to Bayview Avenue
Eglinton Avenue West from Bathurst Street eastward to Yonge Street, and Eglinton
Avenue East eastward from Yonge Street to Bayview Avenue was located in the City of
Toronto prior to amalgamation. From Bathurst Street east to Spadina Road and Oriole
Parkway the streetscape of the avenue is characterized by 1930s to 1950s low-rise
apartment buildings such as “Forest Hill Manor”, “Chalfonte Court” and “Drayton
Court”, “Shenstone Court” and the “Village Manor’, commercial buildings and some
residential buildings, generally converted to commercial use. The “Forest Hill Manor” at
790 Eglinton Avenue West is listed on the City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage
Properties. The former Forest Hill Village once stretched along Eglinton Avenue West
from Avon Avenue on the north to Bathurst Street, from Bathurst Street to just past
Spadina Road on both sides of Eglinton Avenue West and on the south side of the road
eastward to Elmsthorpe Avenue. Forest Hill Collegiate (`948), the Cenotaph and Forest
Hill Library (1963-63) are located on the north side of Eglinton Avenue West to the west
of Chaplin Crescent. The Forest Hill Fire Station (1922), which is listed on the City of
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Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties, is located at No. 641 Eglinton Avenue West on
the south side of Eglinton. Spadina Road meets Eglinton Avenue West in the valley at the
right-of-way for the former Belt Line Railroad, which is now a trail system that passes
under the avenue. The road bridge over the trail was recently rehabilitated by the City of
Toronto.
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buildings, once part of a grouping of seven identical buildings. East of Laird Drive there
is a streetscape on the north side of the avenue of post World War II low-rise apartment
buildings named “Laird Manor”, “Lynn Laird Manor”, “Andrew Manor”, “Glen Avon
Manor” and “Don Avon Manor”.
Leslie Street to Victoria Park Avenue
From Chaplin Crescent to Yonge Street earlier 20th residential development has given
way, for the most part, to mid to late 20th century commercial development. The Art
Deco style Eglinton Theatre (1934), a municipally designated property, is located at 400
Eglinton Avenue West. Eglinton Park is located on the north side of Eglinton Avenue
West between Oriole Parkway and Edith Drive.
Generally, the area west and east of Eglinton Avenue and Yonge Street intersection has
undergone much redevelopment from the 1960s onwards. A City of Toronto HydroElectric building is located at 60 Eglinton Avenue West. The TTC established the
Eglinton Subway Station, a large, multi-platform bus terminal and the Eglinton carhouse
later converted to a garage on the southwest corner of the intersection in the mid 1950s.
Presently the old TTC Eglinton garage and the bus terminal are vacant. Canada Square,
(1963) and the Yonge-Eglinton Centre (1974-75) dominate the intersection on the west
side of the intersection.
Eglinton Avenue East from Leslie Street east to Victoria Park Avenue was part of City of
North York before the amalgamation of the present City of Toronto in 1998.
The IBM plant (1950), now Celestica, is located on the west side of Don Mills Road just
north of Eglinton Avenue East. The Imperial Oil Building (1963) is located at the corner
of Eglinton and Don Mills Road. The Ontario Science Centre (1967), a municipally
designated property, is situated on the southwest corner of the intersection overlooking
the West Don River. The Don Valley Parkway (DVP) has an interchange at Eglinton
Avenue East. To the east of the DVP, Eglinton Avenue East crosses over another
tributary of the West Don River set in parkland, before it curves slightly southward as a
six-lane arterial road to meet Victoria Park Road, the eastern boundary of the former City
of North York before entering the former City of Scarborough.
Victoria Park Road to Kennedy Road
East of the intersection at Yonge Street, Eglinton Avenue East to Mount Pleasant
Avenue and Bayview Avenue is characterized a mixture high-rise apartment development
such as the “Royal” at 300 Eglinton Avenue East by Uno Prii (1964), “Erica Court
Apartments” (c1965), 411 Eglinton Avenue East (c1966), “Richard Victor Apartments”
(c1966), and “Hampton House” (c1969), high-rise office towers, and some single 20 the
century residential and commercial buildings. The “Royal” by Uno Prii is listed on the
City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties.
Bayview Avenue to Leslie Street
Eglinton Avenue East from Bayview Avenue east to Leslie Street was located in the
village of Leaside from the early 20th century to 1967 when it became part of the former
Borough of East York. Sunnybrook Shopping Centre, Ontario’s first planned community
shopping centre, is situated on the northeast corner of Eglinton Avenue East and Bayview
Avenue. Leaside High School (1948) is located on the south side of Eglinton Avenue
East just east of Bayview Avenue. The Leaside Presbyterian Church (1945) sits at the
intersection of Eglinton Avenue East and Hanna Road. Laird Avenue south of Eglinton
Avenue East was the dividing line between industrial lands to the east and residential
lands to the west in Leaside. Today the north side of Eglinton Avenue East to the west of
Laird Drive comprises a streetscape of older retail stores. The south side has newer, bigbox retailers that replaced earlier factories and light industries and two low-rise apartment
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Scarborough before the amalgamation of the present City of Toronto in 1998.
The streetscape of Eglinton Avenue East from Victoria Park Avenue to Kennedy Avenue
is characterized by urban development with parking lots in front of light industrial and
commercial buildings, some of which date from the 1950s and 1960s but substantially
altered. The parking lot for the Eglinton Square Shopping Centre dominates the south
side of Eglinton Avenue East between Victoria Park Avenue and Pharmacy Avenue,
while a parking lot once associated with the Golden Mile Plaza, now demolished,
dominates the north side of the road. Eglinton Avenue East between Pharmacy Avenue
and Warden Avenue contains the Rootes Motors building at No. 1921 Eglinton Avenue
East in a strip mall. The Volkswagen Canada Ltd. building, a municipally listed building,
stands on the north side at No. 1940 Eglinton Avenue West at Warden Avenue. The
Victoria Paper Co. Ltd., Renault Automobiles Canada Ltd., and Canadian Thermos
Products Ltd. buildings on the north side of Eglinton Avenue East west of Thermos Road
and the Lucas-Rotox Ltd. Aircraft Equipment east of Thermos Road are still extant, but
altered. The Ionview neighbourhood stretched along Eglinton Avenue East from east of
Birchmont Avenue to just past Kennedy Road. The Taylor-Massey Creek, an eastern
tributary of the Don River, flows through the Eglinton Ravine between Birchmont
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Avenue and Kennedy Road. The Kennedy TTC Station (1980) is located at 2455
Eglinton Avenue East at the intersection at Kennedy Road.
5.3
Description of Identified Cultural Heritage Resources
This section describes the identified built heritage resources and cultural heritage
landscapes found within or adjacent to the Lester B. Pearson International Airport
Extension study corridor and the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) Martin
Grove Road to Kennedy TTC Station study corridor. The identified built heritage
resources and cultural heritage landscapes with a brief description and a photograph or
aerial views are listed in Tables 1 and 2.
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TABLE 1: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) LESTER B. PEARSON AIRPORT EXTENSION:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
5.3.1 Lester B. Pearson International Airport Extension
Site #
Resource
Type
Category
Location
Description
Heritage Status
Eight (8) alternative routes were surveyed for the Airport Extension. They include:
o Highway. 27-1;
o Highway 27-2;
o Highway 27with Spur Line; and,
o R1, R2, R3, R3 and R5.
1.
CHL
Funerary:
Cemetery
Eglinton Avenue
West, City of
Toronto
Richview Cemetery:
Located on the south side of
Eglinton Avenue between the
lanes of Highway 427 and ramps
of Highway 401 and Highway 27,
accessible from an unmarked road
on the south side of Eglinton
Avenue. The cemetery was
opened in 1853, extended in 1886
and amalgamated with two other
pioneer cemeteries in the 1970s.
The last burial was in 2005. It is
the gravesite of many of
Etobicoke’s settlement families.
Included on the City
of Toronto Inventory
of Heritage
Properties.
The Pearson International Airport in the City of Mississauga is a listed cultural heritage
landscape and all eight (8) route alternatives terminate within the Airport lands. As well,
Alternatives R2 and R3 on Silver Dart Drive are adjacent to the Airport lands.
One (1) cultural heritage landscape, namely the Richview Cemetery, is located within the
City of Toronto adjacent to alternatives R1, R2, R3 and R4, which follow Eglinton
Avenue West. The cemetery is situated the south side of Eglinton Avenue West between
the lanes of Highway 427. It is accessible from an unmarked service road on the south
side of Eglinton Avenue. The site is closed to the public by a chain link fence and the
cemetery is fenced. Opened in 1853, extended in 1886 and amalgamated with two other
pioneer cemeteries in the 1970s, the last burial was in 2005. The cemetery has two
plaques within the fenced burial ground commemorating the Willow Grove Burying
Ground and the Richview Cemetery. Richview Cemetery is municipally designated under
the Ontario Heritage Act.
No built heritage resources or cultural heritage landscapes 40 years and older were
identified within or adjacent to alternatives Highway 27-1 and Highway 27-2, Highway
27 with Spur Line and R5. The identified built heritage resources and cultural heritage
landscapes are listed in Table 1.
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There are two (2)
commemorative
plaques within the
fenced burial ground
for the Willow Grove
Burying Ground and
the Richview
Cemetery.
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View of Richview Cemetery.
Aerial of Richview Cemetery location
south of Eglinton Avenue West
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TABLE 1: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) LESTER B. PEARSON AIRPORT EXTENSION:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site #
Resource
Type
Category
Location
Description
Heritage Status
2.
CHL
Transportation:
Air
City of
Mississauga
Lester B. Pearson International
Airport includes the current airport
and the light industrial lands which
surround it.
Pearson International
Airport (F-TC-1) is
included on the City
of Mississauga
Cultural Landscape
Inventory (January
2005) as an identified
cultural heritage
landscape.
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Given the length of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT study corridor from Martin Grove Road
to Kennedy Station many cultural heritage landscapes and built heritage resources of 40
years and older associated with the historical development of the six pre-amalgamation
municipalities of Etobicoke, York Toronto, East York, North York and Scarborough were
identified. Historically Eglinton Avenue was the dividing line between the north and
south parts of original survey of York Township. The entirety of the length of Eglinton
Avenue from Martin Grove Road in Etobicoke to Kennedy Road in Scarborough is
considered to be one continuous “evolving” streetscape or cultural heritage landscape.
This long and linear streetscape that runs across the width of the City of Toronto can be
divided into many smaller, more discrete streetscapes, and individual built heritage
resources.
For the purposes of identifying the cultural heritage resources Eglinton Avenue has been
divided into sections that relate to the development history of the six pre-amalgamation
municipalities that existed along its length prior to 1998. Most of the built heritage
resources and cultural heritage landscapes are 20th century in age, with the post World
War II period the most predominant.
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For the purposes of the survey, particular attention was paid to the identification of built
heritage resources and cultural heritage landscapes in the areas noted as proposed
underground locations, portal and fire vent locations and bus terminal spaces. Since the
sections of Eglinton Avenue where the LRT will operate at surface (Martin Grove to Jane
and Leslie to Kennedy Station) have enough space within the existing road allowance to
accommodate two lanes of traffic in each direction and dedicated LRT transit lanes and
surface stop platforms in the centre of the road, the cultural heritage resources identified
in these areas are, for the most part, adjacent to the two sections of the study corridor. In
the area of the proposed 13 kilometre underground section between Keele Street and
Leslie Street, it is proposed the underground stations will be located about 850 metres
apart, typically at intersections where existing north-south bus routes or the Yonge and
Spadina Subway lines cross Eglinton Avenue. Therefore, built heritage resources and
discrete cultural heritage landscapes identified at these intersections and located within
the station areas and infrastructure areas are considered to be within the study area.
All municipally designated and listed cultural heritage resources located within or
adjacent to the Eglinton Avenue study corridor are listed in Table 2. Table 2 is not
inclusive of every building and structure 40 years and older found along the Eglinton
Avenue study corridor, but contains selected resources in the key development areas on
Eglinton Avenue from Martin Grove Road in the west to Kennedy Road in the east.
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TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site # Resource
Type
Category
Location
Description
Heritage Status
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TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site # Resource
Type
3.
BHR
Category
Location
Description
Religious
4480 Eglinton
Avenue West,
north side, north
side.
Church of Christian Science built
mid 20th century; 2 storey, multigable roof, building designed in
Tudor Revival style of the Home
Smith Kingsway development to
south using Humberstone exterior
cladding.
4.
BHR
Residential
4400 Eglinton
Avenue West,
north side, north
side.
1 storey residence with stone
exterior, gable dormer, mid 20th
century, garage.
5.
BHR
Residential
4200 Eglinton
Avenue West,
north side, north
side.
Mary Reid House, 2 storey, brick
Included on the City of
residence with Tudor influences built Toronto Inventory of
Heritage Properties.
1939; dry stone fence along road.
MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO JANE STREET (FORMERLY ETOBICOKE)
1.
2.
BHR
BHR
Institutional
Institutional
50 Winterton Drive,
southeast corner of
Eglinton Avenue
West at Martin
Grove Road, south
side.
1738 Islington Ave
at Eglinton Avenue
West, south side.
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Martingrove Collegiate Institute
(MCI) is located at the intersection
of Eglinton Avenue West and Martin
Grove Road. The school opened its
doors on May 27, 1966. Style is
typical of school design of the time.
Richview Collegiate Institute is a
TDSB secondary school in
Etobicoke built in 1958. Style is
typical of school design of the time.
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TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
Resource
Type
Category
6.
CHL
Waterscape
Location
Description
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
JANE STREET TO BATHURST STREET (FORMERLY CITY OF YORK)
Humber River
and valley at
Eglinton Avenue
West.
Eglinton Flats, open flats in river
valley and Humber River.
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IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
7.
Resource
Type
CHL
Category
Location
Description
Historical
Community
(continued)
Eglinton Avenue
West at Weston
Road
Hollis Street consists of early 20th
century streetscape of workers
housing with gambrel roofs and
some post W.W.II bungalows.
Humber River is
designated as a
Canadian Heritage
River.
4 Hollis Street is a former fire hall,
now Mount Dennis Community
Hall. Date stone on community
centre indicates cornerstone laid by
Home Smith in 1921. The site also
has a commemorative plaque from
City of York to the fire fighters.
Aerial view of Humber River at
Eglinton Avenue West [Microsoft
2009].
7.
CHL
Historical
Community
Eglinton Avenue
West at Weston
Road.
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Mount Dennis, former hamlet in
York Township, developed in the
late 19th century and early 20th
century. It contains numerous
residences dating from the 19th and
20th century on both sides of the
Eglinton Avenue West, Weston
Road and Locust and Holly Street
in the study area.
Locust Street consists of early 20th
century housing built for local
industry workers.
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3558 Eglinton Avenue West
At Weston Road, Eglinton Avenue
West comprises some commercial
development including a c1950s
Bank of Nova Scotia building on
the northeast corner of the
intersection.
On the south side of Eglinton
Avenue West at Weston Road, the
early 20th century Good Shepherd
Church with its gable and side
tower forms a landmark at the
corner. The church hall on Weston
Road has a date stone of 1953.
3560 Eglinton Avenue West
3556 Eglinton Avenue West
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TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
7.
Site
#
7.
Resource
Type
CHL
Category
Location
Historical
Community
(continued)
Eglinton Avenue
West at Weston
Road
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Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
Resource
Type
CHL
Category
Location
Historical
Community
(continued)
Eglinton Avenue
West at Weston
Road
Description
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
3562 Eglinton Avenue West
3566 Eglinton Avenue West
3564 Eglinton Avenue West
3576 Eglinton Avenue West
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TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
7.
Site
#
7.
Resource
Type
CHL
Category
Location
Historical
Community
(continued)
Eglinton Avenue
West at Weston
Road
Description
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
Resource
Type
CHL
Category
Location
Historical
Community
(continued)
Eglinton Avenue
West at Weston
Road
Description
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
3588 Eglinton Avenue West
3578 Eglinton Avenue West
Locust Street, Mount Dennis.
3586 Eglinton Avenue West
View of Hollis Street
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TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
7.
Site
#
7.
Resource
Type
CHL
Category
Location
Historical
Community
(continued)
Eglinton Avenue
West at Weston
Road
Description
Heritage Status
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Resource
Type
CHL
Category
Location
Historical
Community
(continued)
Eglinton Avenue
West at Weston
Road
Description
Heritage Status
4 Hollis Street, Mount Dennis
Community Centre (Former Fire
Hall) built in 1921. There is a
commemorative plaque from City of
York to fire fighters on-site.
11-9 Weston Road, Good Shepherd
Church.
8.
BHR
Industrial
3500 Eglinton
Avenue West,
north side.
1151 Weston Road, Scotiabank
building in Modern design with a
distinctive and corporate “Bluenose’
carving on front elevation.
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Employees’ Building of the former
Canadian Kodak Company site,
built in 1939, opened 1940. Kodak
Canada moved its factory to a site
along the rail line running next to
Weston Road during World War I.
Former industrial complex, known
as "Kodak Heights," was a major
employer for Mount Dennis'
residents until in 2005. Only
building left on-site from the large
industrial complex.
Municipal intention to
list on City of Toronto
Inventory of Heritage
Properties (2006) and
designate under the
Ontario Heritage Act.
(information current as
of December 2009).
Former administration building for
Kodak.
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IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
9.
Site
#
10.
Resource
Type
CHL
11.
CHL
Resource
Type
BHR
Category
Location
Transportation Eglinton Avenue
West at CN
Railroad line
crossing of
Eglinton Avenue
West between
Weston Road and
Black Creek
Drive.
Description
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
Concrete retaining wall, plaque
notes built by Metropolitan Toronto
in 1966. Road improvements
carried out as part of a never
realized expressway plan.
Category
Location
Description
Heritage Status
Transportation Railway overhead
Rail
structure on
Eglinton Avenue
West between
Weston Road and
Black Creek
Drive.
Built as steel girder railway
overhead c1965 when Metropolitan
Toronto government reconstructed
Eglinton Avenue West under
railway tracks.
.
Transportation Road bridge on
Road
Eglinton Avenue
West between
Weston Road and
Black Creek
Drive.
Plaque on road bridge with 1965
construction date. Built as access
road to Kodak site when Metro
Toronto government reconstructed
Eglinton Avenue West under
railway tracks as part of proposed
expressway plan.
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Retaining wall and railway overhead.
Metro Toronto Plaque on north wall
of retaining walls.
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TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
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IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
12.
Resource
Type
CHL
Category
Location
Description
Waterscape
Black Creek at
Eglinton Avenue
West, east of
Black Creek
Drive.
Black Creek Bridge built in 1966 by
Metro Toronto and rehabilitated in
2005 by City of Toronto, new
superstructure, and abutments
original.
Site
#
14.
13.
CHL
Recreational
2801 Eglinton
Avenue West,
south side.
Keelesdale Park, established on
south side and Coronation Park on
the north side of Eglinton Avenue
West established c1950s. .
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
Resource
Type
BHR
Category
Location
Description
Heritage Status
Public
2700 Eglinton
Avenue West,
north side.
Former York Municipal Offices,
officially opened in 1950, architect
Shore & Moffat; additions to the
complex in 1960, 1962 and 1974.
To the east of the complex, an open
space with the York Township
Cenotaph (unveiled in 1950).
Included on the City of
Toronto Inventory of
Heritage Properties.
View to south elevation of bridge.
View northwest to former City of
York Municipal Building.
15.
BHR
Public
2694 Eglinton
Avenue West,
north side.
View eastward from entrance drive
to parkland south of Eglinton
Avenue West in Keelesdale Park.
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Canada Centennial Building, York
Museum, built in late 1960s.
Main elevation of the Canada
Centennial building.
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IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
16.
Site
#
17.
Resource
Type
BHR
Category
Location
Description
Heritage Status
Institutional
2690 Eglinton
Avenue West,
north side.
York Memorial Collegiate,
established in 1929 in a rural
setting. Named in memoriam for
W.W. I soldiers.
Municipally designated
under the Ontario
Heritage Act and
included on the City of
Toronto Inventory of
Heritage Properties.
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Resource
Type
BHR
Category
Location
Description
Heritage Status
Commercial
2623 Eglinton
Avenue West,
south side.
TD Canada Trust building, former
Toronto Dominion Bank built
c1950s.
.
South elevation of York Memorial
Collegiate.
Southeast corner of York Memorial
Collegiate.
Digital Photograph/Aerial
View to northwest corner of bank
building on corner.
18.
BHF
Residential
2614 Eglinton
Avenue West,
north side.
19.
CHL
Transportation Venn Crescent,
Road
south side.
Brick, 1 storey, front gable
residence, built circa 1900.
Former alignment of Eglinton
Avenue West on south side between
Kane Avenue and Blackheath
Avenue.
Aerial view of Venn Crescent
[Microsoft Corporation 2009].
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IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
20.
Site
#
22.
Resource
Type
CHL
Category
Location
Transportation Eglinton Avenue
West between
Blackthorn Ave.
and Gilbert Ave.
Description
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
CN Railway on right of way of
former suburban Belt Line Railway
built in 1890s. CN Railway
overhead structure with date plaque
of 1930 and rehabilitation 1991.
Resource
Type
CHL
Category
Location
Description
Heritage Status
Funerary:
Cemetery
Eglinton Avenue
West between
Harvie Avenue
and McRoberts
Avenue, south
side.
Prospect Cemetery, north entrance
gate. Cemetery established 1890.
.
Aerial view Eglinton Avenue West at
CN Rail [Microsoft 2009].
21.
BHR
Commercial
600 Caledonia
Road, northwest
corner of
Eglinton Avenue
West, north side.
Post World War II commercial
building, built to fit triangular lot at
corner.
.
Entrance gates to Prospect Cemetery
south side of Eglinton Avenue West.
23.
BHR
Religious
1828 Eglinton
Avenue West at
Dufferin Street,
north side.
View northwest to 600 Caledonia
Road.
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Christ Church Methodist Episcopal
Church, St. James, formerly St.
Cuthbert’s United Church, building
form still evident but exterior
altered.
View northwest to building.
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AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
24.
Resource
Type
BHR
Category
Location
Description
Location
Description
1804-1808
Eglinton Avenue
West, north side.
Built in 1947, 2 storey, commercial
block with multi-coloured brick
walls, three storefronts of which
two are original, symmetrically
upper window openings with
original sash, decorative band of
soldier brick above upper windows
and date stone of 1947 in centre
upper floor.
Resource
Type
BHR
Category
Commercial
Site
#
26.
Religious
640 Glenholme
Avenue at
Eglinton Avenue
West, south side.
St. Thomas Aquinas Church, mid
20th century. Main entrance faces
onto Glenholme Avenue.
25.
BHR
Commercial
1850-1854
Eglinton Avenue
West, north side
Built in 1947, 2 storey brick veneer
commercial building with altered
commercial windows ground floor
and side entrance to upper
apartments. Date stone of ‘A. B.
Law 1947’ on upper wall. Building
is located in a grouping of four
building probably dating from the
same period,
27.
BHR
Commercial
1606 Eglinton
Avenue West,
north side
Mid 20th century, 1 storey
commercial building, much altered.
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
Eglinton Avenue West elevation..
1850-1854 Eglinton Avenue West in
middle; date stone between upper
floor window openings.
1606 Eglinton Avenue West, middle
building.
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IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
28.
Resource
Type
BHR
Category
Location
Description
Location
Description
1601 Eglinton
Avenue West at
Oakwood
Avenue, south
side.
Pizza Pizza store, formerly Imperial
Bank and CIBC, built c1950.
Resource
Type
BHR
Category
Commercial
Site
#
31.
Commercial
1574-1576
Eglinton Avenue
West, north side
Mid 20th century, 2 storey
commercial building with painted
brick elevation; commercial area on
ground floor.
29.
BHR
Commercial
1557 Eglinton
Avenue West,
south side.
Mid 20th century, 2 storey
commercial building, much altered.
32.
BHR
Religious
1445 Eglinton
Avenue West.
South side.
Beth Sholom Synagogue built in
1947.
30.
BHR
Commercial
1573-75 Eglinton
Avenue West at
Oakwood
Avenue,
southeast corner.
Mid 20th century, 2 storey
commercial building with buff brick
walls and decorative wall elements
such as quoins, and horizontal
bands along upper floor window
openings. Ground floor commercial
area is much altered. Building is
located on a corner and addresses
the corner with an angled wall,
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
1557 Eglinton Avenue West on right.
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AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
33.
Site
#
35.
Resource
Type
BHR
Category
Location
Description
Residential
130 Old Forest
Hill Road at
Eglinton Avenue
West, south side.
Built in 1950s, 5 storey apartment
block with a curvilinear form.
36.
BHR
Institutional
730 Eglinton
Avenue West,
north side.
Forest Hill Collegiate built in 1948
with War Memorial at front
entrance.
Resource
Type
BHR
Category
Location
Description
Commercial
1150 Eglinton
Avenue West at
Glenarden, north
side.
Built c1950, 1 storey CIBC bank
building, former Imperial Bank of
Canada, with buff brick walls on a
corner lot.
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
Heritage Status
View northeast to bank building.
Digital Photograph/Aerial
East elevation.
.
BATHURST STREET TO BAYVIEW AVENUE (CITY OF TORONTO)
34.
BHR
Residential
790 Eglinton
Avenue West,
north side east of
Bathurst Street.
Forest Hill Manor, 4 storey, buff
brick apartment building, designed
by Forsey Page and Steele and
John B. Parkin in the International
style, built 1940.
Included on the City of
Toronto Inventory of
Heritage Properties.
View north to Forest Hill Collegiate
with war memorial in foreground.
Streetscape to northwest with 790
Eglinton Avenue West.
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AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
37.
Site
#
39.
Resource
Type
BHR
Category
Location
Description
Heritage Status
Public
700 Eglinton
Avenue West,
north side.
Forest Hill Library, built 1962-63,
designed by Marani, Morris &
Allan Architects.
.
Digital Photograph/Aerial
View northeast to Forest Hill
Library.
38.
BHR
Residential
697-701 Eglinton
Avenue West,
south side.
“Village Manor”, large, 5 storey
low-rise apartment building built
into rise of land, circa mid 20th
century.
Resource
Type
CHL
Category
Location
Description
Transportation
Rail
Belt Line Trail at
Eglinton Avenue
West, west of
Chaplin Crescent.
Former right-of-way of suburban
Belt Line Railway and CN Railway,
now a trail, and associated bridge
with decorative features.
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
Aerial view of Belt Line trail at
Eglinton Avenue West [Microsoft
2009].
40.
BHR
Public
641 Eglinton
Avenue West,
south side.
Built in 1932, Fire Hall No. 29 and
United Way, formerly Forest Hill
Fire Hall and Police Station,
designed G. A. Bachman and A.
Wilson; additions 1937 and 1971.
Included on the City of
Toronto Inventory of
Heritage Properties.
View southwest to north elevation.
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AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
41.
Site
#
43.
Resource
Type
BHR
Category
Location
Description
Residential
540 Russell Hill
Road at Eglinton
Avenue West,
south side.
“Drayton Manor”, low rise, 4
storey apartment buildings built
c1950s, companion to “The
Shenstone Court” across Russell
Hill Road.
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
Resource
Type
BHR
Category
Location
Description
Heritage Status
Commercial
400 Eglinton
Avenue West,
north side.
Eglinton Theatre designed in a
blended Art Deco and Art Modern
style by Toronto architects Kaplan
and Sprachman, completed in
1934. Entrance pylon has
“Eglinton” spelt in vertical letters.
Includes commercial storefront
from 400 to 412 on the north side
of street in front of the Eglinton
Theatre.
Municipally designated
under the Ontario
Heritage Act and
included on City of
Toronto Inventory of
Heritage Properties.
View to Eglinton Avenue West
elevation.
42.
BHR
Residential
555 Russell Hill
Road at Eglinton
Avenue West,
south side.
“The Shenstone Court”, low-rise, 4
storey apartment building built
c1950s, companion to Drayton
Manor across Russell Hill Road
Digital Photograph/Aerial
Main marquee of theatre.
Eglinton Avenue West view.
Storefronts associated with theatre
building.
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AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
44.
Site
#
46.
Resource
Type
BHR
47.
48.
45.
Resource
Type
BHR
BHR
Category
Location
Description
Commercial
270-272 Eglinton
Avenue West,
west of Oriole
Parkway, north
side.
Brick, 3 storey brick commercial
building with 2 storefronts, 4 bays
upper elevation with cornice.
Religious
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
Category
Location
Description
Commercial
159 Eglinton
Avenue West at
Lascelles
Boulevard, south
side.
Bedford Funeral Home, former
residence, 2 storey brick, built
c1920s.
BHR
Industrial
Utility
60 Eglinton
Avenue West at
Duplex Avenue,
northwest corner
20th century, Toronto Hydro
substation, formerly North Toronto
Hydro-Electric Substation, 2 storey
brick building with decorative
elements, large entrance door and
stone cornice.
CHL
Transportation South side of
Transit
Eglinton Street
East, east of
Duplex Avenue.
Unity Church of Truth, designed
173 Eglinton
Avenue West east by Architect John B. Parkin,
completed in 1954.
of Eastbourne
Avenue, south
side.
Birdseye aerial view of Unity Church
of Truth [Microsoft 2009].
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
TTC bus terminal, now vacant,
built early 1950s on former TTC
car barn site.
View south of former TTC site.
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AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
TABLE 2: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD:
IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
49.
Site
#
52.
Resource
Type
BHR
Category
Location
Description
Commercial
794 Mount
Pleasant Road at
Eglinton Avenue
East, north side
Former Imperial Bank of Canada
building, mid 20th century with
decorative stone cornice, stone
clad ground floor and upper brick
wall, paired 2nd floor window
openings and decorative Classical
style entrance that addresses both
Mount Pleasant Road and Eglinton
Avenue East.
53.
BHR
Residential
300 Eglinton
Avenue East,
north side.
The “Royal”, high rise apartment,
14 floors, designed by Uno Prii in
Modern style with curved
balconies and built 1964.
50.
51.
Resource
Type
BHR
BHR
BHR
Category
Location
Description
Commercial
50 Eglinton
Avenue East,
north side.
Built c1960s, 10-storey curtain
wall office building.
Commercial
Commercial
72 Eglinton
Avenue East.
North side.
170, 174 and 180
Eglinton Avenue
East, north side.
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Bell Canada, built c1950 as Bell
Telephone Co. of Canada office
and exchange, 4 storey brick
structure.
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
East elevation.
Included on the City of
Toronto Inventory of
Heritage Properties.
.
Low-rise, 2 storey commercial row
of three buildings, 174 and 180
built as a unit c1940, 170 built
c1960 replacing a residence.
South elevation.
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IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES (BHR) WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE STUDY CORRIDOR
Site
#
54.
55.
Resource
Type
BHR
BHR
Category
Location
Description
Industrial
Utility
386 Eglinton
Avenue East,
north side.
Toronto Hydro transformer station,
residential style of 1960s.
Commercial
379-383 Eglinton
Avenue East,
south side.
Early 20th century 2-storey brick
commercial block,
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RESOURCES (BHR)
Site # Resource
Type
Category
Location
Description
57.
CHL
Commercial
600 Eglinton
Avenue East at
Bayview Avenue.
north side.
Sunnybrook Plaza, opened as
Sunnybrook Shopping Centre, in
May 1952, occupied two city blocks
with 17 stores, along Eglinton
Avenue East. When built it was
Ontario’s first planned community
shopping centre.
58.
BHR
Institutional
200 Hanna at
Eglinton Avenue
East, south side.
Leaside High School, at the corner
of Eglinton and Bayview Avenues,
established in 1945, opened
September 1948.
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
BAYVIEW AVENUE TO LESLIE STREET (FORMER EAST YORK)
.
View to east of plaza storefronts.
56.
BHR
Religious
503 Eglinton
Avenue East,
south side.
.
Eglinton Avenue Gospel Hall, mid
20th century, front gable roof.
View to southeast of Leaside
Collegiate.
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RESOURCES (BHR)
TABLE 2: MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT):
EXISTING CONDITIONS: IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE
RESOURCES (BHR)
Site # Resource
Type
59.
BHR
Site # Resource
Type
61.
CHL
Category
Location
Description
Religious
Leaside Presbyterian Church,
670 Eglinton
Avenue East, north opened April 1, 1945.
side.
Heritage Status
Digital Photograph/Aerial
.
Category
Location
Description
Commercial
Eglinton Avenue
East between
Sutherland and
Laird Drive, north
side.
Commercial streetscape associated
with Leaside Village, row of 20th
century commercial buildings
anchored by TD bank building
(878) at Laird Drive.
BHR
Residential
801 and 803
Eglinton Avenue
East, south side.
Two, 2-storey brick, low rise
apartment blocks c1950s, only
remaining two of seven identical
apartment blocks.
62.
BHR
Commercial
880 Eglinton
Avenue East
Bank of Nova Scotia building
c1950s associated with Leaside
Village commercial area.
View northeast to bank building on
corner.
North elevations.
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View westward from Laird Drive on
north side of Eglinton Avenue East.
View northwest to church.
60.
Heritage Status
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RESOURCES (BHR)
Site # Resource
Type
Category
Location
Description
Heritage Status
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EXISTING CONDITIONS: IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE
RESOURCES (BHR)
Site # Resource
Type
65.
CHL
Category
Location
Description
Heritage Status
Industrial
1150 Eglinton
Avenue East and
844 Don Mills
Road.
Celestica, formerly IBM complex
with head office and manufacturing
plant (1951) designed by David
Sheppard and Powell .as head
office and software research lab
(1967).
Included on the City
Toronto Heritage
Properties Inventory.
LESLIE STREET TO VICTORIA PARK ROAD (FORMER NORTH YORK)
63.
CHL
Streetscape
Residential
888 to 904
Eglinton Avenue
East, north side
from Laird Drive
to east of Glen
Avon.
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Low-rise, c1950s apartment
blocks—originally named Laird
Manor, Lynn Laird Manor,
Andrews Manor, Glen Avon Court,
and Don Avon Manor.
Digital Photograph/Aerial
.
East elevation of 844 Don Mills Road.
View eastward to north side of
Eglinton Avenue East to apartment
blocks.
64.
BHR
Transportation Eglinton Avenue
Rail
East at Leslie
Street.
66.
CHL
Waterscape
West Don River at
Eglinton Avenue
East.
CP Railway overhead structure,
date unknown, follows alignment
of former Ontario Quebec Railway
(1882).
West Don River crossing at
Eglinton Avenue East, site mid 19th
century sawmills owned by Taylor
Bros.
West Don River at Eglinton Avenue
East [Microsoft 2009].
View westward to overhead across
Eglinton Avenue East.
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TABLE 2: MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT):
EXISTING CONDITIONS: IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE
RESOURCES (BHR)
TABLE 2: MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY ROAD: EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT):
EXISTING CONDITIONS: IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES (CHL) AND BUILT HERITAGE
RESOURCES (BHR)
Site # Resource
Type
67.
CHL
Site # Resource
Type
69.
CHL
Category
Location
Description
Heritage Status
Public/
Educational
770 Don Mills
Road at Eglinton
Avenue East,
southwest corner.
Ontario Science Centre, designed by Municipally
Raymond Moriyama, built 1967.
designated under the
OHA and included on
the City of Toronto
Inventory of Heritage
Properties
Digital Photograph/Aerial
Category
Location
Description
Heritage Status
Waterscape/
Railscape
East Don River at
Eglinton Avenue
East.
East Don River crossing of Eglinton .
Avenue East, alignment of former
Canadian Northern Railway built
between Leslie Street and Woodbine
on west side of Don River in 1905.
Digital Photograph/Aerial
Aerial view of Ontario Science
Centre [Microsoft 2009].
68.
CHL
Transportation Don Valley
Road
Parkway at
Eglinton Avenue
East.
The Don Valley Parkway was part
of a large scheme initiated by
Metro Chair F.G. Gardiner to
crisscross the city with
expressways. It was built where
Woodbine Avenue existed between
Danforth Avenue and Highway
401. Construction of the DVP was
completed in 1966.
Aerial view of East Don River
crossing of Eglinton Avenue East
[Microsoft 2009].
VICTORIA PARK AVENUE TO KENNEDY ROAD (FORMER CITY OF SCARBOROUGH)
70.
BHR
Commercial
Former Volkswagen Building, 5
1940 Eglinton
Avenue East, north storey office building with
curvilinear lines.
side.
Included on the City of
Toronto Inventory of
Heritage Properties.
Aerial view of Don Valley
Interchange at Eglinton Avenue East
[Microsoft 2009].
View to northeast.
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6.3
6.0
POTENTIAL IMPACTS MITIGATION RECOMMENDATIONS
6.1
Introduction
This section provides an assessment of the potential adverse effects of the improvements
for Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) Martin Grove Road to Kennedy TTC
Station and the Lester B. Pearson International Airport Extension Preliminary Planning
for a Transit Project Assessment Study, City of Toronto based on November 2009 design
drawings provided by LGL Limited. The conservation of cultural heritage resources in
planning is considered to be a matter of public interest.
Generally changes due to transit infrastructure projects have the potential to adversely
affect cultural heritage landscapes and built heritage resources by displacement and/or
disruption during and after construction. Built heritage and/or cultural heritage
landscapes may experience displacement or direct impacts, i.e., removal, if they are
located within the rights-of-way of the undertaking. There may also be potential for
disruption or indirect impacts to cultural heritage resources by the introduction of
physical, visual, audible or atmospheric elements that are not in keeping with their
character and, or setting.
Transit improvements should be managed in such a way that its impact is sympathetic
with the value of the resources. When the nature of the undertaking is such that adverse
impacts are unavoidable it may be necessary to implement management or mitigation
strategies that alleviate the deleterious effects to cultural heritage resource. Mitigation is
the process of causing lessening or negating anticipated adverse impacts to cultural
heritage resources, It may include such actions as avoidance, monitoring, protection,
relocation, documentation, salvage, remedial landscaping, etc., and may be a temporary
or permanent action.
6.2
Lester B. Pearson International Airport Extension
There are no anticipated direct impacts to built heritage resources and cultural heritage
landscapes as a result of this transit undertaking. Therefore there are no mitigation
recommendations for this section of the study corridor.
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Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) Martin Grove Road to
Kennedy TTC
The Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) Martin Grove Road to Kennedy TTC
study corridor includes the examination of a number of alternatives, including but not
limited to, the potential station stops, intersection improvements and consideration of
transportation demand management options. The preliminary preferred alternative was
provided by LGL Limited.
We have reviewed the mapping provided for the tunnel section of the proposed Eglinton
LRT with the intent of identifying potential impacts and mitigation. We had previously
identified built heritage resources and cultural heritage landscapes in the Existing
Conditions Report. Both direct and indirect effects will occur as a result of the proposed
infrastructure development. Displacement will most often result in the loss of a cultural
heritage resource. Disruption will occur where a change in the physical and visual context
will result from the proposed undertaking
Table 3 is a list of cultural heritage resources that may be affected by the placement of
LRT station location and associated facilities. The LRT stations not identified in Table 3
will not be affected based on the review of the most recent information received from
LGL Limited.
In the area of Prospect Cemetery on Eglinton Avenue West construction activities should
be sensitive to the close proximity of the cemetery, especially the entrance gates.
6.4
Future Mitigation Commitments
The Lester B. Pearson International Airport Extension will not result in displacement and
disruption impacts.
The Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) Martin Grove Road to Kennedy TTC
Station project will result in displacement and disruption impacts to identified cultural
heritage resources along study corridor. The City of Toronto may require a Heritage
Impact Assessment (HIA) to measure the degree of impact to these resources to be
affected.
The Richview Cemetery located in the interchange for Highway 401 and 427 and south
of Eglinton Avenue is adjacent to the LRT line and no construction related activities
should occur in this area.
The City of Toronto’s Inventory of Heritage Properties includes both municipally listed
and municipally designated properties. The City of Toronto’s Heritage Preservation
Services has developed new HIA Guidelines to evaluate the impacts of proposed
development or site development for properties included on the City of Toronto’s
Inventory of Heritage Properties as well as any yet unidentified cultural heritage
resource(s) found as part of the site assessment.
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TABLE 3: POTENTIAL IMPACTS TO CULTURAL HERITAGE RESOURCES DUE TO STATION SITES,
PLATFORMS AND TRANSIT RELATED INFRASTRUCTURE ON EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT
(LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY TTC STUDY CORRIDOR
Station Site/ Platform Location
Potential Impact/Location
Mitigation Recommendations
Weston Road
Displacement: Widening of Eglinton Avenue West
will result in the removal of a row of 19th and 20th
century residences on the north side of Eglinton
Avenue West, namely 3556 to 3588 (CHL 7).
Displacement: City of Toronto Heritage Preservation
Services may require a Heritage Impact Statement (HIA)
for the residences to be removed after screening.
Disruption: Widening and intersection
improvements at Eglinton Avenue West and Weston
Road will result in changes to the site context of
Bank of Nova Scotia at 1151 Weston Road (CHL 7).
Disruption: Prepare a sympathetic design that recognizes
the importance of the viewscape in front of the building. A
Heritage Impact Statement (HIA) will be required for this
site by City of Toronto Heritage Preservation Services.
Dufferin Street
Displacement: Placement of a fire vent will result in
the removal of 1850-1854 Eglinton Avenue West
(BHR 25), a 1947 commercial building.
Displacement: Document the change in the streetscape with
photographs and historical mapping and prepare a brief
history of the area and building prior to the removal of the
building. Consult with Heritage Preservation Services
regarding report content prior to commencement.
Oakwood Avenue
Displacement: Placement of a station/exit will result
in the removal of several 1950s commercial
buildings, namely, 1557 (BHR 29), 1573-75 (BHR
30), 1574-76 (BHF 31) and 1606 (BHR 27).
Displacement: Document the change in the streetscape with
photographs and historical mapping and prepare a brief
history of the area and building prior to the removal of the
building. Consult with Heritage Preservation Services
regarding report content prior to commencement.
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TABLE 3: POTENTIAL IMPACTS TO CULTURAL HERITAGE RESOURCES DUE TO STATION SITES,
PLATFORMS AND TRANSIT RELATED INFRASTRUCTURE ON EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT
(LRT) MARTIN GROVE ROAD TO KENNEDY TTC STUDY CORRIDOR
Station Site/ Platform Location
Potential Impact/Location
Mitigation Recommendations
Mount Pleasant Road
Displacement: Station development and fire vent
will result in the removal of 794 Mt. Pleasant Road
(BHR 52), 20th century commercial building.
Displacement: City of Toronto Heritage Preservation
Services will require a Heritage Impact Statement (HIA).
Adaptive reuse of the building can be considered as a
station entrance. Photo document the building and site prior
to removal if this is the preferred option.
Disruption: Station development will result in a
change in the context of the site of the Uno Prii
apartment building, 300 Eglinton Avenue East (BHR
53), a municipally listed property on the City of
Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties.
Disruption:
City of Toronto Heritage Preservation Services will require
a Heritage Impact Statement (HIA) for the site.
Disruption: Change in context due to new secondary
entrance at Sunnybrook Plaza, located at 600
Eglinton Avenue East (CHL 57). The site is listed
property on the City of Toronto Modernist Inventory.
Disruption: City of Toronto Heritage Preservation Services
may require a Heritage Impact Statement (HIA) for the site
after screening.
Disruption: Document the change to the site with
photographs and historical mapping prior to intersection
improvements and prepare a brief area history. Consult with
Heritage Preservation Services regarding report content
prior to commencement.
Disruption: Road widening on the west side of
Keele Street and the placement of an emergency exit
on Eglinton Avenue West in front of York Memorial
Collegiate (BHR 16), a municipally designated
property under the Ontario Heritage Act.
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In consultation with Heritage Preservation Services, City of Toronto, it was agreed those
properties considered to be of local heritage interest will be screened by a site review
followed by the preparation of report containing a brief description of the resource and a
professional opinion of a qualified built heritage consultant as to whether or not a formal
HIA report needs to be completed to assess the degree of impact of the project and to
provide mitigation recommendations. Mitigation recommendations may include, but not
limited to, a summary documentation report including photographs for properties of local
interest that do not merit an HIA. An HIA report will be required for all properties
presently included on the City of Toronto’s Inventory of Heritage Properties as
municipally listed properties or designated properties under Part IV of the Ontario
Heritage Act.
An HIA report for the City of Toronto will be based on a understanding of the
significance and heritage attributes of the cultural heritage resource(s), identification of
any impact the proposed development or site alteration will have on the resource(s),
consider mitigation options, and recommend a conservation strategy that best conserves
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Left:
Township of Toronto map
[Illustrated Historical Atlas
of the County of Peel,
1877].
Right: Township of Toronto
Gore map. [Illustrated Historical
Atlas of the County of Peel,
1877].
Etobicoke Township York Township and Scarborough
Township [Tremaine’s Map of the County of York,
Canada West, 186]0.
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Township of Etobicoke [Illustrated Historical
Atlas of the County of York, 1878].
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Township of Scarborough [Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County
of York. Toronto, 1878].
Peel County and Eglinton Avenue in Etobickoe Township, York County east to Humber River [National Topographic Series: Brampton 30 M/12: 1922].
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Eglinton Avenue from Humber River in west to
Kennedy Road in the east [National Topographic
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