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Local Landmarks & Heritage

  • Scarborough GO Station
  • Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies (former Midland Avenue Collegiate)

Neighborhood History

Scarborough Junction is a Scarborough neighbourhood between Birchmount Road and Brimley Road, from St. Clair Avenue north to Eglinton Avenue, also known as Kennedy Park. It is named for the meeting of two railways: the Grand Trunk laid its track through the area in 1856, and the Toronto and Nipissing Railway arrived in 1873. Before then, Irish settlers had opened the Strangford post office in 1863 at Moffat's Corners, Victoria Park and St. Clair, and a Mortlake post office ran from 1865 to 1872 at the Halfway House Hotel on Kingston Road.

The Scarborough Junction post office opened in 1873 in Bell's store at Kennedy Road and St. Clair Avenue, and the community's Junction School, opened in 1900, became the largest public school in the township after its 1906 expansion. Hundreds of veterans' homes were built here after the Second World War. Scarborough GO Station on St. Clair Avenue East, which opened in its present form in 1967, carries on the railway story behind the name. Scarborough became part of the amalgamated City of Toronto in 1998.

The Scarborough Junction tee is for the neighbours who live where Scarborough's two railways met.

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Scarborough Junction - Scarborough - Unisex Cotton Tee

Scarborough Junction - Scarborough - Unisex Cotton Tee

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Scarborough Junction grew where two railway lines crossed in the 1870s, between Birchmount and Brimley roads. Many of its homes were built for returning veterans after the Second World War.

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