Toronto's Lost Villages leads the reader and the day-tripper to the many historic sites and streetscapes that mark long lost stage stops, mill villages, and railway communities, now engulfed by a surging city.
Toronto's Lost Villages leads the reader and the day-tripper to the many historic sites and streetscapes that mark long lost stage stops, mill villages, and railway communities, now engulfed by a surging city.
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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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
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
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