West Toronto Junction
| The Junction | |
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| Neighbourhood | |
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| Coordinates: 43°39′56″N 79°27′52″W / 43.66556°N 79.46444°WCoordinates: 43°39′56″N 79°27′52″W / 43.66556°N 79.46444°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Ontario
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| City |
 Toronto
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| Founded | 1884 |
| Incorporated | 1887 (Village) West Toronto Junction 1889 (Town) Toronto Junction 1908 (City) West Toronto |
| Amalgamated | 1909 into City of Toronto |
| Government | |
| • City Councillor |
Frances Nunziata Gord Perks Sarah Doucette |
| • Federal M.P. |
Arif Virani Mike Sullivan |
| • Provincial M.P.P. |
Laura Albanese Cheri DiNovo |
The Junction is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that is near the West Toronto Diamond, a junction of four railway lines in the area. The neighbourhood was previously an independent city called West Toronto, that was also its own federal electoral district until amalgamating with the city of Toronto in 1909. The main intersection of the area is Dundas Street West and Keele Street. The Stockyards is the northwestern quadrant of the neighbourhood.
As with most Toronto neighbourhoods outside of the central downtown core, the area was primarily rural until the 1870s. John Scarlett was the first land owner and employer in the area and built his home "Runnymede" in 1838, near where Dundas Street West and St. John's Road meet today. By 1817 he had acquired most of property that is now the Junction and much more to the north and west to the Humber River. From 1857 to 1876 the Carlton Race Course dominated the southeast of the neighbourhood. The race track was owned by the Keele family (William Conway Keele and his son Charles Keele). The track was the site of the first Queen's Plate. Following the arrival of the railways in the 1880s, the old racetrack and surrounding area was developed by Daniel Webster Clendenan, who would be elected the first reeve of the village of West Toronto Junction, and first mayor of the town of Junction in 1889. The approximate locations of the two main straightaways of the track are now High Park Avenue and Pacific Avenue (between Glenlake Road and Annette Street).
The Village of West Toronto Junction was founded in 1884 at the intersection of Dundas and Keele Streets. In 1889, it merged with the nearby villages of Carlton and Davenport to the north-east to become the Town of West Toronto Junction. It grew further, into the Town of Toronto Junction in 1892, then the City of West Toronto in 1908 before it was amalgamated with the Toronto one year later in 1909.
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