Baby Point
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Gates to Baby Point on Jane Street
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| Coordinates: 43°39′27″N 79°29′33″W / 43.65750°N 79.49250°WCoordinates: 43°39′27″N 79°29′33″W / 43.65750°N 79.49250°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Ontario
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| City |
 Toronto
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| Community | York |
| Settled | 1816 |
| Changed Municipality | 1998 Toronto from York |
| Government | |
| • MP | Arif Virani (Parkdale—High Park) |
| • MPP | Cheri DiNovo (Parkdale—High Park) |
| • Councillor | Sarah Doucette (Ward 13 Parkdale—High Park) |
Baby Point is a wealthy residential neighbourhood in the York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was part of the former City of York before the amalgamation of Toronto in 1998. The area began as two independent municipalities. It is bounded on the west by the Humber River from south of Baby Point Crescent to St. Marks Road, east to Jane Street and Jane Street south to Raymond Avenue and Raymond Avenue west to the Humber. It is within the city-defined neighbourhood of 'Lambton-Baby Point.' More recently, in 2010, local merchants formed the Baby Point Gates Business Improvement Area (a board under the City of Toronto) which runs along Jane St from Montye Ave in the north, to Lessard Ave in the south, and along Annette St from Jane St in the west, to Windermere Ave in the east.
In the 17th century, it was the site of the Iroquois village Teiaiagon, occupied by the Seneca and Mohawk, before the Marquis de Denonville led its destruction.
The name is pronounced by locals as "Babby" Point, to rhyme with tabby or cabbie, in an approximation of how original settler James Baby pronounced his surname.
The Baby Point enclave was originally a Seneca village. James Baby, pronounced 'Bawby', was a member of a prominent Quebec fur trading family and a former politician in Upper Canada. He settled at Baby Point in 1816, after discovering the abandoned village. A lush apple orchard covered the area and salmon swam in the Humber River, giving it an Eden-like quality. Water from a fresh spring nearby was bottled and shipped worldwide.
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