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Local Landmarks & Heritage

  • L'Amoreaux Park
  • L'Amoreaux Community Centre
  • St. Paul's Church, L'Amoreaux
  • L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute

Neighborhood History

L'Amoreaux is a Scarborough neighbourhood around Warden Avenue and Finch Avenue East, named for Josue L'Amoreaux (1738–1834), a French Huguenot Loyalist who settled here in the early 1800s; he arrived from New York with his wife Elizabeth, seven children and two nephews. The family had left Scarborough by 1840, but its name stayed with the local church and, later, the whole district.

St. Paul's Church, L'Amoreaux, was opened by Bishop John Strachan on November 18, 1841, as a small frame church on land given by Cornelius Ward; after a fire in 1935 it was rebuilt by 1940, and a new multipurpose building was dedicated in 1978. The farmland gave way to suburban homes from the late 1950s, and L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute opened on Bridletowne Circle in 1973. In 2000, housing construction north of L'Amoreaux Park North uncovered the Alexandra Site, a Wyandot village with longhouses, now marked by plaques. L'Amoreaux Park, the community centre and the tennis centre anchor the neighbourhood today. Scarborough became part of the amalgamated City of Toronto in 1998.

The L'Amoreaux tee is for the neighbours who carry the name of a Huguenot settler family at Warden and Finch.

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L'Amoreaux is a Scarborough neighbourhood near Warden Avenue and Finch Avenue East. Its name, and that of its 1841 Anglican church, honour a French Huguenot Loyalist family who farmed here in the early 1800s.

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