Creeks Woodbine-Coxwell 1918Tomlin’s Creek and the other lost streams of the east end, from a 1951 City of Toronto Engineer’s map
Tomlin’s Creek began where springs ran out of the sand and gravel banks just west of Main Street and south of Benlamond. It is now a “lost creek”, rerouted into the City of Toronto’s sewer system. But it still exists as a ghost creek running as ground water along the ravine.
Creek east of Glenmount Park Road, May 11, 1933Glenmount Park Fill, May 11, 1933Pond east of Glenmount Park Road, March 3, 1934Creek west of Glenmount Park Road, May 11, 1933Pond west of Glenmount Park Road, March 5, 1934Rear of south side Corley Ave at Golfview Ave – November 3, 1927Rear of south side Corley Ave at Woodbine Ave – November 3, 1927Ravine, Corley Avenue, ca. 1930 courtesy of Rae WhiteComparison 1947 to 2017
There were two new McEachren subdivisions, each unique, but with some common elements: high quality homes and the effort the owner and developer of the properties, the McEachren family, to retain the trees. First was was Kingsmount Park, from Bowmore to Woodbine, and then, across Woodbine Avenue, Kingsmount Park.
By 1923, there was a building boom across Toronto as prosperity had returning following the brief depression of 1919. The area filled in with rows of brick bungalows, detached, duplexes and triplexes:
The building impulse is also evident south of Danforth and Gerrard street east from Main street to Coxwell avenue, including the new subdivision, Kelvin Park Beach, which is astir with scores of houses rising above the snow-cloaked fields. Variety in architecture and price underlie the building movement of this district, and homes range in value from $5,000 to $9,000. The ring of the hammers of the builders in the Gerrard street east district echoes over the hills south to Kingston road, where from the city limits at Victoria Park avenue to Queen street, with its lake frontage streets, are building up with blocks of homes valued from $4,500 to $8,000. During the last few days cellars have been excavated in the new Bingham avenue subdivision and Glenmount Park. Globe, February 27, 1923
Glenmount Park ad, Toronto World, December 4, 1911Glenmount Park ad, Toronto World, November 15, 1911Toronto Star, February 6, 1912 Street names Kingsmount, GlenmountGlenmount ad, Toronto World, February 24, 1912Glenmount ad, Toronto Star ad, April 11, 1912Glenmount aerial labelled, Toronto Star ad, April 11, 1912Toronto Star, April 11, 1902 Glenmount mapA home among the trees, Toronto Star, June 14, 19121916 Glenmount Park RdGlenmount Park, Toronto Star, May 6, 19191921 Glenmount ParkMcEachren ad, Globe, June 9, 1923The model home at 92 Glenmount as it looked in 19231924 Glenmount Park Rd1924 Glenmount Park RdGlenmount Park Rd sale, Toronto Star, April 12, 1924William McEachren, realtor