BEDFORD PARK NEIGHBOURHOOD

History

The history of Bedford Park dates back to 1873, when the Bedford Park Hotel was opened at the south-west corner of Yonge Street and Fairlawn Avenue. The area around the hotel was a farming hamlet centred around the crossroads of Yonge Street and Lawrence Avenue.

The Metropolitan Street Railway extended railway tracks from Toronto and started to regularly service the area in 1890. As a result, the residential development of Bedford Park began to expand, especially after the neighbourhood merged with the former Town of North Toronto, which was then appropriated by the city of Toronto in 1912.  

Homes, Shopping and Recreation

There is a plentiful combination in Bedford Park of detached and semi-detached homes. Many of the original bungalows built between 1890 and 1940 have been leveled to make room for custom designed houses.

As most of the homes in Bedford Park are accessible to a wonderful range of shopping along Yonge Street, Avenue Road and Lawrence Avenue, it’s no surprise that this fabulous area is one of Toronto’s top selling neighbourhoods where the housing prices range from $600,000 to $1,000,000+.

There is a wide variety of family oriented exclusive shops in Yonge Lawrence Village. The neighbourhood also features a good selection of coffee shops, bakeries and restaurants.

The Avenue Road shopping district, north of Lawrence, has a diverse mix of shops and restaurants including national chain stores, home decorating stores, fast food restaurants, gift stores and gourmet food shops including the delectable gourmet grocery store, Pusateri’s Fine Foods.

As for recreation options, Wanless Park is the largest park in the neighbourhood. It comes complete with five floodlit tennis courts, a basketball court, a baseball diamond, a children’s playground and a wading pool.

Another recreation option is Woburn Parkette, which is west of Yonge Street. This area is popular with parents and toddlers alike with its updated children’s playground and a wading pool. A few blocks north of the Woburn Parkette is The Fairlawn Neighbourhood Centre, which is managed out of the Fairlawn Heights United Church. This Centre includes a wide scope of seasonal programming for its 2500 active members of all ages. It has become a pivotal centre for the community and is often the first place that new families visit when they move into the neighbourhood.

Another Bedford Park community resource, the Locke Public Library, located at the south-east corner of Yonge and Lawrence, offers year round programs for adults, children, and preschoolers.

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