Summerhill

Bisected east-west by Yonge Street, Canada’s longest street and one of Toronto’s most important transit thoroughfares, and just below St. Clair Avenue, Summerhill lies almost in the heart of midtown Toronto. The neighbourhood gives its residents access to its own subway station as well as to a host of shops, services and restaurants in addition to several offices in the area.

Receding into the prominent neighbourhood from busy Yonge Street are quiet and leafy streets lined with beautiful century-old two-story homes.

Like many of the neighbouring communities in the area, Summerhill was named for the stately house that was previously found on the land here prior to annexation. Transportation magnate Charles Thompson built the original “Summer Hill” house in 1842, and following the addition of the North Toronto Railway Station in the 1880s, the neighbourhood quickly flourished.

The station currently serves as an LCBO outlet, but under the provincial government’s “Move Ontaio 2020” plan the station is destined to return to its original use and serve as a midtown stop for a new GO Train line.

You can get Summerhill news from Streeter online by neighbourhood or via the Central Toronto edition. Residents also receive the Central Toronto print edition of Streeter.