Lambton 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 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.'
The neighbourhood was at one time an Iroquois village. In the 19th century, lawyer James Baby bought the land from the Upper Canada government, which had bought it as part of the Toronto Purchase. The land was developed into the current neighbourhood in the early 20th Century. The name is pronounced by locals as "Babby" Point, to rhyme with tabby or cabbie, in an approximation of how James Baby pronounced his surname.
The Baby Point enclave was originally a Seneca and Mohawk village, known as "Teiaiagon". The village was abandoned before 1700 after the Mississauga drove out the Iroquois to lands south of Lake Ontario. For a short time, the Mississauga had a village at the site.
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.
Baby's heirs lived at Baby Point until 1910, when the government acquired the land with the intention of establishing a military fortress and barracks at the site. The government eventually changed their plans and sold the land to a developer named Home Smith, who began developing a subdivision in 1912. Home Smith would later develop a residential area across the Humber, The Kingsway.
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