New Toronto Travel Forum

What/Where the heck is New Toronto?? I live in Ottawa and have never heard of this new area!

TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA :
New Toronto is a working-class neighbourhood near the southwest corner of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is roughly bounded by Lake Ontario to the south, Twenty-Third Street to the west, the Canadian National Railways mainline to the north, and Dwight Avenue to the east.
New Toronto was first established in 1890 as an industrial centre. It was later incorporated as a village in 1913, with a population of 500, and became a town in 1920. It was amalgamated in 1967 into the Borough (later City) of Etobicoke; this in turn was merged with five other municipalities and a regional government into the new City of Toronto in 1998.
The Town of New Toronto was a strong manufacturing community during most of the twentieth century. The area's largest employer was the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, which established a plant there in 1917. Other major industries included Campbell Soup Company, Anaconda American Brass, Continental Can Company of Canada, and Gilbey's distillers. Later Industries were attracted to New Toronto by the presence of the Grand Trunk Railway freight yards which opened in 1906, and were located in New Toronto (although named Mimico Yards). Growing freight traffic in the Toronto area necessitated the creation of an amalgamated facility and a by-pass of the congested Toronto Terminal. A modern hump yard in Maple first named Toronto Yard and the freight by-pass opened in 1965 at which time Mimico was downgraded considerably, resulting in the loss of much employment. At the same time the Toronto By Pass line allowed for the creation of GO Transit commuter train line between Oakville and Pickering. GO named its facility Willowbrook. Old CNR facilities in Mimico Yard were used for the startup of this trial train service. Its subsequent growth has resulted in new facilities being built for GO. The availability of the almost deserted railway yard was an opportunity to relocate VIA Rail passenger facilities from downtown Toronto to New Toronto. VIA calls its facilities: Toronto Maintenance Centre.
It is now a neighbourhood in transition as the industrial corridor located at the north end of the community is being redeveloped for more institutional use. Industry that gradually moved out of New Toronto over the years is now being re-established. New Toronto also has a high senior citizen population.
The Toronto Transit Commission's 501 Queen streetcar line, which runs along Lake Shore Boulevard, connects New Toronto to the downtown core. The Lakeshore Campus of Humber College, formerly Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital, is located at the foot of Kipling Avenue. The local high school, Lakeshore Collegiate Institute, was originally built and operated as New Toronto Secondary School. It is located on the northwest corner of Kipling Avenue and Birmingham Street.

Interesting fact...I live in Toronto for many years and never heard of this neighbourhood.

I had to admit to having never heard of that area either, until I joined VT. I've heard of "Thistletown", Weston, Cabbagetown, Little Italy, Little Portugal, Greektown, Hogg's Hollow, Willowdale, Rexdale, North Toronto, Riverdale, Lawrence Park, Moore Park, Bloor West Village, Regents Park, East York, North York, and The Annexe areas but never New Toronto.
Learn something all the time here in VT!

Well, we ARE walking Wikipedia!

HAHA, almost bought a house at Lakeshore/Royal York road last weekend. I'd heard of New Toronto but didn't know it was there. (by the way, we bought our first house Sept 1 - above Bluffers Park :D)

Congrats on becoming a home-owner. You know the definition of a house is a hole in the ground into which money is poured? As opposed to a condo - a hole in a tall building into which money is poured, or a computer - a hole in a desk in which money is poured or a boat - a hole in the water.... etc etc. There is a "hole theory" for anything and everything!

Thanks Jane. Better to be pouring money into our own hole than someone else's :P

Scarborough Bluffs here we come! yeeeehaaaa

i live in toronto too and i'm telling you there is no new toronto, they are mixed up when all the small cities and boroughs came together in 1998 they called it the "Greater Toronto Area" or the G.T.A. look on a map or even a transite map from Toronto and you will see the G.T.A. and not new Toronto

RALRUM if you go for a drive over to Lakeshore & Islington/Royal York area you will find New Toronto. Been there. Never knew about it until I drove into it and have been a resident of T.O. for 41 years.