Local Landmarks & Heritage
Local Landmarks & Heritage
- The Bishop Strachan School (1915)
- Grace Church on-the-Hill (1913)
- William Moore House (c. 1824–1835)
- Forest Hill Library (former Village Civic Centre, 1962)
Neighborhood History
Neighborhood History
Forest Hill is a midtown Toronto neighbourhood around Spadina Road and Eglinton Avenue West, once known as Spadina Heights. It takes its name from Forest Hill, the summer house John Wickson built in the 1860s near today's Eglinton Avenue West and Old Forest Hill Road. On November 23, 1923, the Village of Forest Hill was incorporated on land that had been part of York Township. Old Forest Hill Road, which began as a footpath known locally as Trespass Road, took its present name in 1927.
The Bishop Strachan School, founded in 1867, moved to its Collegiate Gothic building on Lonsdale Road in 1915, next to Grace Church on-the-Hill, designed by Eden Smith and opened in 1913. The William Moore House on Old Forest Hill Road dates from about 1824 to 1835 and was designated by the City in 2000. The village ran its own board of education, which opened Forest Hill Collegiate Institute in 1948, and in 1962 it built a civic centre on Eglinton Avenue West that now houses the Forest Hill library branch. In 1967 the province amalgamated Forest Hill into the City of Toronto.
The Forest Hill tee is for the neighbours of the old village, from Lonsdale Road to Eglinton Avenue West.
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Forest Hill - Toronto - Unisex Cotton Tee (Small Print)
Forest Hill - Toronto - Unisex Cotton Tee (Small Print)
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Forest Hill was a village of its own from 1923 until it joined the City of Toronto in 1967, centred on Spadina Road and Eglinton Avenue West. It took its name from John Wickson's 1860s summer house.
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