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Wanless Park
Wanless Park is a neighbourhood and park in North Toronto. It is located just north of Lawrence Avenue, between Bayview Avenue and Yonge Street. It is desired by many families because of the quality of the local schools. The quiet streets and mature trees are perfect for raising children. The close proximity of Yonge Street and the TTC, as well as the DVP, make trips downtown – or out of town – a breeze.
Wanless Park’s solid brick detached houses were built mostly in the 1930′s and 1940′s. Most of the houses are two storey, however there is a sprinkling of bungalows in this neighbourhood as well. Many of these have been purchased and renovated to within an inch of their lives, now becoming large multi-storey homes.
Overall the property sizes in Wanless Park are excellent with most homes having at least a thirty foot frontage and either a mutual or private driveway. The majority of Wanless Park houses either face the park or back onto the Riverview Drive Ravine.
Central to the Wanless Park neighbourhood is a public park called Wanless Park. Wanless Park is a small neighbourhood park of approximately 5 acres, with numerous tennis courts, a basketball court, playground, a wading pool with a lifeguard, baseball diamond and grass fields.
In the winter a skating rink is installed (with lights for night time skating). During the summer, camps and Ultimate Frisbee tournaments occupy much of the grassy field area.
Wanless Park
In the centre of the park, there is a “club house” which houses the tennis club, the summer camp office and washrooms. Every April, an annual “Clean Up the Park Day” is organized. The people of Wanless Park help clean up garbage and other assorted matter. Coffee, tea and juice are made available for the volunteers.
On the annual May 24 Victoria Day long weekend, the people of Wanless Park neighbourhood organize a spectacular fireworks show.
Many of the trees planted in Wanless Park have been donated by the nearby residents, often in memory of loved ones. Donated trees typically have a plaque in front of them.
In 1912, Toronto Suburbs Ltd., guided by George Kappele and D.F. Crowagen registered a plan of subdivision for the old Waverley farm at Mount Pleasant Road and Lawrence Avenue. The developers named this new subdivision Waverley Park.
Like other Toronto neighbourhoods from this era, the actual building of homes in Waverley Park was stalled initially by the First World War and then by the depression.
In 1931 the City of Toronto expropriated the properties in the centre of Waverley Park for the creation of a public park. The Park was named Wanless Park, and eventually the entire neighbourhood adopted this name.
Wanless Park, and several like street names are named after John Wanless, a Toronto municipal alderman and educator.
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Teddington Park
Teddington Park is one of the smallest and most exclusive neighbourhoods in all of Toronto. Over the years many important and influential Torontonians have called this neighbourhood home.
Teddington Park is conveniently located right off the Yonge Street corridor. However, it is remarkably quiet thanks to its natural boundaries which include the Rosedale Golf Club and the Riverview Drive Ravine.
Most of Teddington Park’s houses were built between 1910 and 1935. The signature street in the neighbourhood is certainly Teddington Park Avenue – a wide tree-lined boulevard that contains large Tudor and Georgian style houses.
Teddington Park
Riverview Drive is a winding, countryfied road, lined by majestic maple trees. The properties on Riverview Drive are especially large as many of these homes back onto the Riverview Drive Ravine. Most of these exclusive mansions would look right at home on the Bridle Path!
Teddington Park’s development as a high-end residential district was inspired by the Rosedale Golf Club, which had moved from Rosedale to the Teddington Park area in 1909. Teddington Park formed the northern boundary of the old City of Toronto back in 1912. That same year, separate plans of subdivision were registered by two prominent Toronto businessmen – Nicholas Garland and Robert Dack. These plans led to the eventual building of the homes you now see in Teddington Park.
Teddington Park’s older houses on Riverview Drive were originally given descriptive names such as ‘Donnybrook’, ‘Silverwood’, and ‘Treetops’. These names were in leu of municipal addresses, which were not issued until some time after the houses were built. Some of these houses still display their historical names.
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