Toronto's Lost Villages

Ron Brown

• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781459746572
• eBook ISBN: 9781459746596
• Edition: 2
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of the Lost
• Introduction
• 1 Along the Lakeshore
• 2 Early Pioneer Paths
• 3 Yonge Street
• 4 The Governor’s Road
• 5 The Lost Villages of the Pioneer Kingston Road
• 6 Vanished Farm Hamlets of Scarborough and the Northeast
• 7 Farm Hamlets of the Northwest
• 8 By the Old Mill Stream
• 9 The Railway Towns
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgements
• Appendix 1: The Street Railways
• Appendix 2: Toronto’s Lost Stations
• Further Reading
• Image Credits
• Back Cover