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DEER PARK HISTORY:
Deer Park used to be referred to by the First Nations people as "Mushquoteh", which means a meadow or opening in the wood where deer come to feed. In 1837, the Heath family purchased forty acres of land in "Mushquoteh". Appropriately, they named their estate Deer Park.
By the 1850's, the Deer Park area had grown to include a handful of country villas, a general store, a school, a cemetery, a race track, and a hotel that was located at the intersection of Yonge and St. Clair. Patrons at the Deer Park Hotel used to delight in feeding the deer that roamed on the hotel grounds.
The deer were long gone by the time Deer Park was annexed to the City of Toronto in 1908. Deer Park filled in very quickly after annexation. By the 1930's the Deer Park neighbourhood was established as one of Toronto's finest residential districts.
Deer Park is different from many upscale Toronto neighbourhoods in that its homes are not isolated on the periphery of the neighbourhood. The residential streets spill out onto either Yonge Street or St. Clair Avenue, right into the heart of one of Toronto's busiest shopping, entertainment, and business districts.
DEER PARK OVERVIEW
Deer Park is located next to many acres of ravine and parkland. The Belt Line Trail, once the site of a steam-powered commuter railway, is now a nature trail that travels west from below Merton Street and south from Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Also to the south-east are the Vale of Avoca Ravine, David A. Balfour Park and the Rosehill Reservoir.
Deer Park is served by Deer Park Junior and Senior Public School. Brown Junior Public School is located nearby, on Avenue Road, below St. Clair Avenue West. Nearby private schools include Upper Canada College, De La Salle College 'Oaklands", The York School and The Linden School.
The Deer Park Library is located at the corner of Alvin Avenue and St Clair Avenue East. Yorkminster Park Baptist Church and Christ Church Deer Park (Anglican) are on Yonge Street two blocks above St Clair Avenue. The St. Clair Centre, at the corner of Yonge Street and St Clair Avenue East, provides a wide variety of shops and services, as well as access to the St Clair subway station.
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