Seaton Vil­lage is a cen­trally located and fam­ily ori­ented Mid­town Toronto neigh­bour­hood. Remark­ably, this neigh­bour­hood has man­aged to main­tain the feel of a small town vil­lage, even though it is sit­u­ated in right a busy part of the city.

Seaton Vil­lage is bor­dered by Bloor Street to the south, the Cana­dian Pacific Rail­way tracks to the north, Christie Street to the west and Bathurst Street to the east. It is within the broader ‘The Annex’ neigh­bour­hood, as defined by the City of Toronto, thought not in most Annex res­i­dents’ minds!

Although the Kore­atown shop­ping dis­trict is at its south­ern bor­der, Seaton Vil­lage can some­times be referred to as the “West Annex”. While Seaton Vil­lage shares sev­eral char­ac­ter­is­tics with the area to the east (notably its archi­tec­ture and its pop­u­lar­ity with Uni­ver­sity of Toronto stu­dents), it is gen­er­ally qui­eter, more family-oriented – and with smaller, less expen­sive homes.

Seaton Vil­lage Map

The area con­sists of pri­mar­ily semi-detached sin­gle fam­ily homes dat­ing to the start of the 20^th cen­tury. Most are of solid brick con­struc­tion, while some have only a facade of brick. Most of the trees planted at the same time as the houses were built are still standing.

Ver­mont Square Park is almost right in the mid­dle of Seaton Vil­lage. The park has a play­ground, includ­ing a wad­ing pool. St. Albans Boys and Girls club (where I hung out after school) and the Bill Bolton hockey arena (where I played hockey as a kid) are also located in the park. Christie Pits is right on the west­ern edge of the area, pro­vid­ing a wealth of out­door activities.

There are sev­eral small busi­nesses located along Dupont Street, with a Loblaws super­mar­ket located on the north­east cor­ner of Christie and Dupont. The neigh­bour­hood is served by two sub­way sta­tions – Bathurst and Christie. Buses run north from both sta­tions, and buses run along Dupont. Many street­cars run out of Bathurst sta­tion, as far down as the lake and Exhi­bi­tion Place.

Seaton Vil­lage Real Estate

The Vil­lage of Seaton once existed as an actual vil­lage – north from Bloor to Ham­mond (now Dupont), between Bathurst and Hope (now Man­ning) Streets. Sit­u­ated just west of Yorkville, this area was annexed by the City of Toronto in 1887 as the city made its north­ward push into what was then the sub­urbs. The ori­gins of Seaton are an inter­est­ing tale involv­ing some of the ear­li­est res­i­dents of Toronto.

Seaton Vil­lage was orig­i­nally set­tled by Colonel David Shank and Cap­tain Samuel Smith. Both men were loy­al­ists who served under John Graves Sim­coe in the Queens Rangers. In the early 1800s, the Shank and Smith farm lots were acquired by George Crookshank.

The Crook­shank estate began at the foot of Bathurst Street where it over­looked the lake. A laneway from the Crook­shank house ran north to his coun­try farm, where Seaton Vil­lage is today. The Crook­shank laneway is now part of Bathurst Street.

Seaton Vil­lage is named after Lord Seaton, a for­mer Lieu­tenant Gov­er­nor of Canada. The Vil­lage was laid out on the old Crook­shank farm in the 1850s. How­ever, res­i­den­tial devel­op­ment of the present day neigh­bour­hood did not com­mence until around 1888, after Seaton Vil­lage was annexed into the greater city proper.

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Lau­rin & Natalie Jef­frey are Toronto Real­tors with Cen­tury 21 Regal Realty.
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who are inter­ested in Toronto real estate. They do not work for any builders.
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