Scarborough Junction

Scarborough Junction
Neighbourhood
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
City	Toronto
Community	Scarborough
Changed Municipality	1998 Toronto from Scarborough
Government
• MP	Bill Blair (Scarborough Southwest)
• MPP	Lorenzo Berardinetti (Scarborough Southwest)
• Councillor	Michelle Berardinetti (Ward 35 Scarborough Southwest)

Scarborough Junction (also known as Kennedy Park) is a neighbourhood in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bordered by Birchmount Road, Brimley Road, Eglinton Avenue, and St. Clair Avenue.

History

The first European settlement in the area was the town of Strangford established at what is today the intersection of Victoria Park and St. Clair in 1863. Another small town named Mortlake was established in 1865. The town's main building, the Halfway House Hotel, survives today at Black Creek Pioneer Village where it was moved in 1962. The small farming communities changed when the area became the meeting point of two major railways. The Grand Trunk Railway laid track through the area in 1856 and the Toronto and Nipissing Railway arrived in 1873. The business of the area changed from farming to supporting travellers and maintaining the railroads. The two towns, Strangford and Mortlake, merged into Scarborough Junction. By 1896 Scarborough Junction became the most populated of all the villages in the Township of Scarborough.

The post-World War II years saw Scarborough Junction become one of the first areas of Scarborough to be transformed into modern suburbs. Its major road and rail lines made for easy travel to the city, inspiring the epithet "Scarborough Junction."

Schools

• Corvette Junior Public School
• Danforth Gardens Public School
• General Brock Public School
• Glen Ravine Junior Public School
• J.G. Workman Public School
• Lord Roberts Junior Public School
• St. Maria Goretti Catholic School is a Catholic school as the largest Catholic school in Toronto. It opened in 1955 named after Maria Goretti and boasts a double gymnasium with a stage, closed circuit television in every classroom, an elevator and an assembly area named the "Ark'" which can be used for gatherings of up to 300 people.
• Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute, the neighborhood's first high school opened in 1962 and closed in 2000 with many modernist design features such as a circular cafeteria.
• Norman Cook Junior Public School
• Robert Service Senior Public School
• Walter Perry Junior Public School

References

• Scarborough Historical Society - Scarborough Junction (Strangford & Mortlake)

Further reading

• "Kennedy Park neighbourhood profile". City of Toronto. Retrieved 2007-12-27.