Heritage Resources

Heritage Sites

Ron MacLean visits Balmy Beach Club (video)

Heritage Buildings (designated by Toronto City Council under the Ontario Heritage Act, Part IV)

• Alfresco Lawn, no. 5. Leuty Lifesaving Station, 1920. Designation Bylaw 414-93, 19 July 1993
• Balsam Avenue, no. 93. William J. Gardiner House, 1899. Designation Bylaw 798-98, 30 October 1998
• Benlamond Drive, no 6. Part of the property at 57 Benlamond Avenue. Designation Bylaw 633-89, 5 October 1989
• Benlamond Avenue, no. 47. Alexander McLeod House, 1909. Designation Bylaw 345-90, 28 May 1990
• Benlamond Avenue, no. 57. Rev. William Darling House, 1873- 1876. Designation Bylaw 633-89, 5 October 1989
• Bracken Avenue, no. 28.Heritage Report. Designation Bylaw 1634-2019. 27 November 2019
• Hubbard Boulevard, no. 1. Hubbard Fourplex. Designation Bylaw 1003-2017, 4 October 2017
• Hubbard Boulevard, no. 3. Hubbard Fourplex. Designation Bylaw 1005-2017, 4 October 2017
• Hubbard Boulevard, no. 5 and no. 7. Hubbard Fourplexes. Designation Bylaw 47-2015, 11 December 2014
• Hubbard Boulevard, no. 9. Hubbard Fourplex. Designation Bylaw 1010-2017, 4 October 2017
• Hubbard Boulevard, no. 11. Hubbard Fourplex. Designation Bylaw 1012-2017, 4 October 2017
• Kenilworth Avenue, no. 109. Kenilworth Avenue Baptist Church; 1895; later a community centre known as Kenilworth Hall; c.1920 the Beach Hebrew Institute, known familiarly as the Beth Jacob Synagogue. Designation Bylaw 37-86, 17 January 1986
• Kimberley Avenue, no. 16. William Brown House, 1889. Designation Bylaw 207-2006, 30 March 2006
• Kingswood Road, no. 40. George Davis House, 1919. Designation Bylaw 750-2004, 30 September 2004.
• Lee Avenue, no. 30/Queen Street East, no. 2075. Kew Gardens. W. D. Young Memorial Drinking Fountain, 1919, Maurice Klein. Designation Bylaw 12-77, 17 January 1977.
• Main Street, no. 292. Heritage Reports. Designation Bylaw 935-2020, 30 October 2020. Amended to correct technical error Bylaw 1146-2020, 18 December 2020.
• Queen Street East, no. 1975, no. 1975a. John Wright House, c.1903; store added. Designation Bylaw 599-89, 7 September 1989.
• Queen Street East, no. 2205. Charles E. Scadding Confectionery, 1906, William Johnston, bldr. to design of Edwin R. Babington. Designation Bylaw 476-90, 10 September 1990.
• Queen St. East, no. 2236/Beech Avenue, no. 83a. The Prince Edward Theatre and Apartments, 1913, Designation Bylaw 440-89, 29 June 1989.
• Swanwick Avenue, no. 21. Emmanuel Presbyterian Church; 1893; addition in 1914. Designation Bylaw 383-2007, 24 April 2007.
• Wineva Avenue, no. 2 and no. 4. Wineva Fourplex. Designation Bylaw 45-2015, 11 December 2014.
• Wineva Avenue, no. 6. Wineva Fourplex. Designation Bylaw 1007-2017, 4 October 2017.
• Wineva Avenue, no. 8. Wineva Fourplex. Designation Bylaw 1008-2017, 4 October 2017.

Heritage Conservation Districts (designated under Ontario Heritage Act, Part V)

• Kingswood Road South
• Lyall Avenue

Heritage Toronto - Plaques program

Heritage Toronto - Historical plaques APP

Historic Glenfern

"Men who built the Beach: the Price Brothers Homes and other stories" (PDF 28 MG)

Research the History of Your House - a Guide by Barb Myrvold

Toronto Neighbourhoods "The Beach with John Sewell" - CBC TV - 1984 (video)

ToBuilt Database of images and information about buildings and structures In Toronto, sponsored by the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, Toronto Branch. The database includes these neighbourhoods within the TBETHS catchment area

• Danforth
  
• East End - Danforth
  
• The Beaches

Toronto Heritage Register

Local Planning Studies

Toronto Urban Design Guidelines; Queen Street East: Coxwell Avenue to Nursewood Road (2012)

Danforth Avenue Planning Study (Coxwell Avenue to Victoria Park Avenue) – City-Initiated Official Plan Amendment – Final Report. June 15, 2018.

Includes a map and addresses of potential heritage properties (Attachment 10) and the heritage context (Attachment 11)

Main Street Planning Study – City-Initiated Official Plan Amendment – Final Report. November 15, 2019.

Includes “Potential Built Heritage Resources” (Attachment 5) and “Main-Gerrard Historical Overview” (Attachment 6).

Libraries and Archives

Toronto Public Library Local History and Genealogy
One place to look for online and library resources for Toronto history and genealogy: pictures, books, city directories, fire insurance plans and maps, neighbourhoods, databases, local history collections, new books, upcoming programs, etc.

City of Toronto Archives

Toronto Mapping Historical Photographs.
An open-source map created by Sidewalk Labs that provides block-by-block browsing of thousands of historic Toronto photographs from the City of Toronto Archives and the Toronto Public Library.

Malvern Red and Black Society

Tours

Ashbridge's Bay watershed walk

Historical walking tour of Kew Beach

Community newspapers

• Beach Metro Community News
• Beach-East York Neighbourhood Voice
• Beaches Life
• Beaches Living Guide

Online local history books

• Beach in Pictures
• Danforth in Pictures (includes some information beyond the local area)
• Historical Walking Tour of Kew Beach by Mary Campbell and Barbara Myrvold

War service

Malvern Honour Roll

For King and Country is a project to transcribe the war memorials inside Toronto schools, which also provides an excellent history of each school. Neighbourhood schools included in this project to date are:

• Adam Beck Public School
• Balmy Beach Public School
• Blantyre Avenue Public School
• Bowmore Road Public School
• Coleman Avenue Public School
• Courcelette Public School
• Earl Beatty Public School
• Earl Haig Public School
• Gledhill Public School
• Kew Beach Public School
• Kimberley Street School
• Malvern Collegiate Institute
• Norway Public School
• Williamson Road School

Updated May 20, 2020