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Local Landmarks & Heritage

  • Stock Yards Village
  • Keele Street
  • St. Clair Avenue West

Neighborhood History

The Stockyards is a Toronto district around Keele Street and St. Clair Avenue West, in the northeast corner of the old Junction. Its name comes from the Union Stock Yards, chartered in 1900 and opened in 1903 at the southwest corner of Keele and St. Clair, moving the city's livestock market out of downtown. The site was then part of the City of West Toronto, which Toronto annexed in 1909. Rebuilt after a fire in 1908, the yards drew meat packers such as Canada Packers and Swift to the surrounding streets.

In 1944 the Government of Ontario bought the yards from their American owners and renamed them the Ontario Stock Yards, the only government-owned public stockyard in Canada. They closed in 1993 and moved to Cookstown, and much of the land was redeveloped for big-box retail, though some meat processing continues in the district. In 2014 Stock Yards Village opened at St. Clair and Weston Road on part of the former Swift plant site, keeping the old name on the map.

The Stockyards tee is for the neighbours who still call Keele and St. Clair by its working name.

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The Stockyards - Toronto - Unisex Cotton Tee

The Stockyards - Toronto - Unisex Cotton Tee

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The Stockyards is a Toronto district around Keele Street and St. Clair Avenue West. It takes its name from the Union Stock Yards, which operated at the southwest corner of Keele and St. Clair from 1903 to 1993.

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