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Local Landmarks & Heritage

  • Malvern Town Centre
  • Malvern library branch
  • Nike Malvern Sports Complex

Neighborhood History

Malvern is a Scarborough neighbourhood in the northeast of the former township that grew from a crossroads settlement near Sheppard Avenue and Markham Road. Before 1850 it was known as Malcolm's Corners, after John and Robert Malcolm, who kept the Speed the Plough Inn and a harness shop there. A post office opened in 1856 in David Brown's general store at Finch Avenue and Markham Road, named after the English spa town of Malvern, and in 1857 Senator David Reesor registered a plan of village lots and promoted Malvern as the future capital of Scarborough.

The post office moved into the village in 1865, and a red brick schoolhouse for School Section No. 3 was built in 1872. Hopes for a railway were dashed in 1871 when the Toronto and Nipissing line was routed through Agincourt, though the Canadian Northern Railway opened a Malvern station in 1911. In the late 1950s Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation expropriated the surrounding farms to build a planned community of affordable homes, and its first residents moved in in 1972. Scarborough became part of the amalgamated City of Toronto in 1998.

The Malvern tee is for the neighbours of the planned community that grew around Senator Reesor's village.

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Malvern is a Scarborough neighbourhood near Sheppard Avenue and Markham Road, in the northeast of the former township. Once a small village promoted by Senator David Reesor, it was rebuilt from the 1970s as a planned community of affordable homes.

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