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E-book
Author Brown, Ron

Title Toronto's Lost Villages
Edition 2nd ed
Published Toronto : Dundurn, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (252 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of the Lost -- Introduction -- 1 Along the Lakeshore -- Toronto's 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 Vaughan Road -- Fairbank -- Dublin -- Elia -- Emery -- Fisherville -- Kaiserville -- Downsview -- Concord -- 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 Grove -- 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 -- Back Cover
Summary Toronto's Lost Villagesleads 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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Historic sites -- Ontario -- Toronto Region
Historic sites
Ontario -- Toronto Region
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781459746589
1459746589