Local Landmarks & Heritage
Local Landmarks & Heritage
- Leuty Lifeguard Station (1920)
- Kew Gardens (1907)
- Beaches Branch, Toronto Public Library (1916)
- The Boardwalk
Neighborhood History
Neighborhood History
The Beaches is an east-end Toronto neighbourhood on Lake Ontario, bounded by Coxwell Avenue, Kingston Road and Victoria Park Avenue. Its name has long been debated: street signs reading "The Beaches" went up in 1985 and were later removed, and in a 2006 poll 58 per cent of participants chose "the Beach." Woodbine and Kew Beach were already part of Toronto, while the eastern section, including Balmy Beach, came in with the Town of East Toronto in 1908. From about 1878 to 1925, Victoria Park, Munro Park and Scarboro Beach Park drew crowds as amusement parks.
Joseph Williams owned Kew Gardens as a farm from the 1850s, opened recreation grounds there in 1879 and named it after Kew Gardens in London; the City bought it in 1907. The Leuty Lifeguard Station, built by the Toronto Harbour Commission in 1920 and saved by a community campaign, was designated a heritage property in 1993, and a long boardwalk runs along most of the shore.
The Beaches tee is for the neighbours of the boardwalk, whichever name they call it.
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The Beaches - Central Toronto - Unisex Cotton Tee
The Beaches - Central Toronto - Unisex Cotton Tee
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The Beaches stretches along Lake Ontario between Coxwell and Victoria Park avenues in Toronto's east end. Its boardwalk passes Kew Gardens and the 1920 Leuty Lifeguard Station.
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