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I beg to differ. My Irish-immigrant ancestors were well established in Toronto by 1860. Through The Queen’s Own Rifles, my great-grandfather became life-long friends with John Morison Gibson, a Member of the Legislature from 1879 to 1905. Gibson held the posts of Provincial Secretary...

Oh that’s rich: There was a lunatic asylum where the Legislative Assembly of Ontario now sits!

If Gibson’s Lane was about halfway between Davenport Rd and Aylmer Ave., it would have gone right through Fellowship Towers, I think. Some of the houses on the east side of Yonge north of Gibson’s Lane are still there.

The house at 152 Bloor St. W. was The Presbyterian Ladies College at one point. My grandmother attended after graduating from Deer Park P.S. around 1900. The school photo is probably from around 1902. I haven’t posted anything in a while so have no idea why the pic I attached wound up above the...

The Cleveland Arcade is stunning but... where are the people?

I wonder if John G. Howard also designed Lyndally, built sometime after 1835 on the east side of Yonge St. north of York Mills Rd. by Lt.-Col Duncan Cameron. The proportions and details are similar to other homes by Howard (with the verandah presumably filled in at some point). According to...

It's here: "A history of the church and the neighbourhoold can be found on: http://www.christchurchdeerpark.org/...ItAllBegan.pdf ."

The development of Deer Park between 1900 and 1923 is vivid in the early photos of idyllic Lawton Park and the later one showing the built-up area. And, the link to the history of Christ Church Deer Park has interesting detail. I hadn't known that there was a connection to St. John's York Mills.

Wonderful photos; so much interesting detail

I drove through that intersection today and noticed that the lovely stonework on the Dominion store has been covered by what looks like panels of fake stucco.

I wonder if it was really the actual tree. Maple trees in the city don't seem to last more than about 100 years and according to the legend, the tree was already around in 1867. Any arborists in the group?

What a lovely memory.

What a great surprise to read the article and see those aerials. Thank you so much for the link! You're right, the training part was on the north side, the breeding barns on the south. We used to watch the horses being taken around that track when we were supposed to be doing track and field...

Thanks for the images, Anna. My best friend and I used to visit the mares and foals at the breeding barns south of York Mills Rd. We would walk through the gates and up the long drive to see the horses in the fields, take pictures, memorize their names. No one ever objected or told us to leave...

That must have been taken in the '60s. I wish I could find a photo taken 10 years earlier, showing the stores in the plaza. Haha, my father used to pull into that gas station and buy $2 worth of gas.

I have no idea. I remember Joker's Hill only as a venue for other equestrian events (jumping, eventing).

Thanks, thecharioteer, for the link to that detailed and fascinating history. I hadn't realized that Koffler's was the first self-serve drugstore in Canada. Behind Murray Koffler's calm and courteous manner, a brilliant business brain. BTW, those "cows [that] grazed in a field across the street"...

I've been trying to remember all the stores in that plaza... I don't remember a Maynards. From east to west I recall the Royal Bank, Koffler's Drug Store, was the hardware next? Hunts, something, a women's clothing store, and something in the corner (dry cleaner?). My first bank account was at...

I remember Murray Koffler in the 1950s, standing tall behind the counter in his drug store (York Mills plaza, Bayview and York Mills), filling prescriptions.