Local Landmarks & Heritage
Local Landmarks & Heritage
- Sheppard–Yonge station (1974)
- Dempsey Store (1860, moved to Dempsey Park 1996)
- Golden Lion Inn site, Yonge and Sheppard (1824)
Neighborhood History
Neighborhood History
Lansing is a North York neighbourhood bounded by Yonge Street to the east, Highway 401 to the south, Bathurst Street to the west and Burnett Avenue to the north. It grew as a small settlement around Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue, where the Golden Lion Inn was built in 1824. In 1860 Joseph Shepard II built a general store at the northwest corner of the intersection, and in 1866 a post office opened inside it under the name Lansing.
The store was a landmark of the corner for well over a century, later run by B.R. Brown from 1904 and by the Dempsey brothers from 1921. In 1996 it was moved about a mile north to Beecroft Road, where it now stands in Dempsey Park, and it was designated under the Ontario Heritage Act in 1998. Electric streetcars reached the area along Yonge Street in 1896, houses filled the side streets between the 1910s and the 1950s, and Sheppard station opened in 1974. North York became part of the amalgamated City of Toronto in 1998.
The Lansing tee is for the neighbours around Yonge and Sheppard, where the village store once stood on the corner.
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Lansing - North York - Unisex Cotton Tee
Lansing - North York - Unisex Cotton Tee
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Lansing is the North York neighbourhood around Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue, west of Yonge. Its 1860 general store, home to the Lansing post office, now stands a mile north in Dempsey Park.
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