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Local Landmarks & Heritage

  • Thistletown Collegiate Institute
  • Thistletown Multi-Service Centre
  • Elm Bank (23 Jason Road)
  • West Humber River

Neighborhood History

Thistletown is an Etobicoke neighbourhood centred on Albion Road and Islington Avenue, above the West Branch of the Humber River. The Scottish settler John Grubb arrived in 1833, and on June 11, 1847, his village plan, called St. Andrews, became the first plan ever registered in Etobicoke. Because that name was already used by another post office, the village was renamed for Dr. William Thistle. The Grubb family's Elm Bank house at 23 Jason Road dates from the early 1800s.

A one-room schoolhouse opened in 1874 and moved to the village green in 1901, and the Toronto Suburban Railway ran through Thistletown from 1910 until 1926. Thistletown became a police village on June 17, 1933, and in the 1950s suburban growth from Rexdale reached it. Thistletown Collegiate Institute opened in September 1957, and the old village school became the Thistletown Multi-Service Centre in 1985. Etobicoke became part of the amalgamated City of Toronto in 1998.

The Thistletown tee is for the neighbours of John Grubb's village above the West Humber.

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Thistletown is an Etobicoke neighbourhood at Albion Road and Islington Avenue, laid out in 1847 by Scottish settler John Grubb as St. Andrews, the first plan registered in Etobicoke. It was later renamed for Dr. William Thistle.

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