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Local Landmarks & Heritage

  • Marie Curtis Park
  • Long Branch Library
  • Long Branch GO Station
  • Etobicoke Creek

Neighborhood History

Long Branch is a lakeshore neighbourhood in Etobicoke between Etobicoke Creek and Twenty-Third Street, on land granted in the late 1700s to Samuel Smith of the Queen's Rangers, who later served as administrator of Upper Canada. In 1883 part of the old Smith property was sold for a summer resort; cottages began in 1884, and in 1886 Thomas Wilkie took over the site as Long Branch Park, named after the resort of Long Branch, New Jersey. The Long Branch Hotel opened in 1887, and the electric radial railway along the lakeshore reached Etobicoke Creek in 1895.

Long Branch governed itself as a village from the early 1930s until it joined the Borough of Etobicoke in 1967. Hurricane Hazel struck in October 1954, destroying more than forty homes, and land at the mouth of Etobicoke Creek was later taken for Marie Curtis Park, opened in 1959 and named for Reeve Marie Curtis. The library moved into its building at 3500 Lake Shore Boulevard West in 1955, and Long Branch GO Station opened in 1967. Etobicoke became part of the amalgamated City of Toronto in 1998.

The Long Branch tee is for the neighbours of the old lakeshore resort village at Etobicoke Creek.

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Long Branch is an Etobicoke lakeshore neighbourhood that began in the 1880s as a summer resort named after Long Branch, New Jersey. It governed itself as a village until it joined the Borough of Etobicoke in 1967.

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