Turning back the clock 84 years, our photo of the day is a great shot of Kingston Road looking west from Birchmount in 1928. It’s a shot of streetcar tracks being laid when the TTC extended its streetcar service from Victoria Park to the Birchmount Loop. The streetcars replaced the old radial cars that starting running through Birch Cliff in about 1901. Streetcars continued operating to Birchmount until 1954.
Kingston Road, looking west from Birchmount, 1928
Two more affordable apartment buildings in Birch Cliff have been targeted for redevelopment, which means there are now four proposed “demovictions” in the neighbourhood affecting tenants in a total of 155 rental units.
Opposition is muted to a comparatively modest eight-storey condo building proposed for 1161 Kingston Rd. at Courcelette Road, the current site of Spiros & Sons gas station.
A community association meeting will be held on Wed. Dec. 9 to discuss the ten condominium projects underway or pending in Birch Cliff, including Lenmore Court, where tenants have been told they will be displaced.
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The two buildings on the right (north side) of Kingston Rd. are still there today. Growing up on Harding Blvd., they were some of the first building I saw when I was old enough to go off our street but not cross the road. The furthest west building on the northeast corner of Harding Blvd. and Kingston Rd. is commercial on Kingston Rd. and apartments on Harding Blvd.
When did you live in Birch Cliff Bill/Buddy? Do you have older photographs yourself?