Explore the vestiges of the hamlets and villages that have been swallowed up by Toronto’s relentless growth.
Over the course of more than two centuries, Toronto has ballooned from a muddy collection of huts on a swampy waterfront to Canada’s largest and most diverse city. Amid (and sometimes underneath) this urban agglomeration are the remains of many small communities that once dotted the region now known as Toronto and the GTA. Before European settlers arrived, Indigenous Peoples established villages on the shore of Lake Ontario. With the arrival of the English, a host of farm hamlets, tollgate stopovers, mill towns, and, later, railway and cottage communities sprang up. Vestiges of some are still preserved, while others have disappeared forever. Some are remembered, though many have been forgotten. In
Toronto’s Lost Villages, all of their stories are brought back to life.
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LIST OF THE LOST
INTRODUCTION
1. ALONG THE LAKESHORE
Toronto’ First Vanished Villages
Teiaiagon and Ganatchakiagon
The Europeans Arrive, in Numbers
Old York
The Toronto Islands
New Town
The Villages on the Lake
Windermere
Humber Bay
Long Branch
Lorne Park
Rosebank
Fairport
2. EARLY PIONEER PATHS
Don Mills Road
Don Vale
Chester
Todmorden Village
Dawes Road
Coleman’s Corners
Little York
Moffat’s Corners
Davenport Road
Davenport
Carlton
Albion Road
Thistletown
Smithfield
Claireville
3. YONGE STREET
Yorkville
Drummondville
Davisville
“Eglington”
Bedford Park
York Mills
Lansing
Willowdale
Newtonbrook
Langstaff
4. THE GOVERNOR’S ROAD
Blue Bell Village
Brockton
Lambton Mills
Islington
Summerville
Dixie
Cooksville
Springfield
5. THE LOST VILLAGES OF THE PIONEER KINGSTON ROAD
Don Mount
Leslieville
Norway
Mortlake, and the Famous Halfway House
Scarborough Post Office
Highland Creek and West Hill
Rouge Hill
Dunbarton
Liverpool
Duffin’s Creek
6. VANISHED FARM HAMLETS OF SCARBOROUGH AND THE NORTHEAST
Danforth Post Office
Bell’s Corners
Bendale
Woburn
Wexford
O’Sullivan’s Corners
L’Amoreaux
Hillside
Hough’s Corners
Ellesmere
Milliken
Malvern
Armadale
Hagerman’s Corners
Brown’s Corners
Dollar
7. FARM HAMLETS OF THE NORTHWEST
The Vaughn Road
Fairbank
Dublin
Elia
Emery
Fisherville
Kaiserville
Downsview
Concrod
Edgeley
Airport Road
Woodhill
Grahamsville
Malton
Mount Charles
Derry West
Elmbank
Richview
Britannia
Hanlon
Burnhamthorpe
Highfield
8. BY THE OLD MILL STREAM
The Rouge River
Buttonville
Headford
The Don River
Todmorden Mills
Oriole
Flynntown
Don Mills
Gray Mills
Milneford Mills
German Mills
The Humber River
Milton Mills
Brownsville
Pine Gorve
Rowntree Mills
The Credit River
Barbertown
Churchville
Old Meadowvale
9. THE RAILWAY TOWNS
Mimico
New Toronto
West Toronto Junction
East Toronto
Scarborough Junction
Scarborough Village
Port Union
Leaside
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
APPENDIX 1: THE STREET RAILWAYS
APPENDIX 2: TORONTO’S LOST STATIONS
FURTHER READING
IMAGE CREDITS
INDEX
关于作者
Ron Brown, a geographer and travel writer, has authored more than twenty books, including Canada’s World Wonders and The Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. A past chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada and a current member of the East York Historical Society, he gives lectures and conducts tours along Ontario’s back roads. Ron lives in Toronto.
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