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Deer Park Zone Central Toronto
By w311y: 29/09/11
Centred on the animated junction of Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue, Deer Park is a high end neighbourhood that usually attracts professional families. It mixes upper-middle-class comfort with stunning natural beauty. The neighbourhood is not only one of Toronto’s most active shopping, entertainment, and business districts, but it is also abundant in luxurious foliage and surrounded by glorious trees. From phenomenal boutiques to other staple retailers, you'll find anything in the commercial center of Deer Park.
The boundaries of Deer Park are approximately outlined as the CP railway tracks to the south, the Belt Line trail to the north, Avenue Road and Oriole Parkway to the west, and the Rosedale Ravine to the east.
Established in the 1830s, Deer Park is one of Toronto’s older neighbourhoods. Before the zone on the northwest corner of Yonge and St. Clair was bought by the Heath family in 1837, it had been referred to by First Countries folks as “Mushquoteh,” meaning a meadow or opening in the wood where deer come to feed. Numerous deer were still wandering the Heaths ‘ property, so the family was moved to select Deer Park as a name for their land. Although the area still bears the same name, deer are significantly absent.
By the 1850s, the zone had grown vigorously. Country houses, a racetrack, a school, a shop, and a hotel had been built and scattered throughout the area. This was the time when one of Toronto’s oldest cemeteries, St. Michael’s Graveyard, was opened by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto.
Meanwhile, the Heath property was subdivided into 33 lots in 1846 and entirely sold off by 1874. A few years later , the huge electric streetcars of the Urban Train line started ascending the steep stretch of Yonge Street and the once tranquil Deer Park began its boom. The coming of new families led to the proliferation of buildings along St. Clair Avenue West. Deer Park was eventually annexed by the City of Toronto in 1908, and by the 1930s, it had become a prospering residential neighbourhood and a highly fascinating district
Jamie Sarner is Toronto real estate agent, specialized in luxury homes
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