Local Landmarks & Heritage
Local Landmarks & Heritage
- Brock Avenue
- Former Brockton Town Hall site (Dundas & Brock)
- Dufferin Mall (former Dufferin Racetrack site)
Neighborhood History
Neighborhood History
Brockton Village is a west-end Toronto neighbourhood that traces to a 100-acre land grant Captain James Brock received along Dundas Street in March 1812. After his death his widow Lucy subdivided the land and laid out the roadway that became Brock Avenue around 1850. The settlement was incorporated as a village around 1881 — the census that year counted 786 residents — and a Town Hall went up at Dundas and Brock in 1882, doubling as fire station and civic headquarters.
Brockton was annexed into the City of Toronto in 1884, the year of the city's 50th anniversary, and became part of St. Mark's Ward. The Dufferin Racetrack operated nearby from 1907 to 1956 before the site became Dufferin Mall, and the village's western reaches later grew into what is now Roncesvalles. Brock Avenue remains the neighbourhood's founding line.
This tee is for the people who live on the old Brock grant — a village that kept its own name long after Toronto folded it in.
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Brockton Village - West End Toronto - Unisex Cotton Tee
Brockton Village - West End Toronto - Unisex Cotton Tee
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