In today’s vlog we poke around New Toronto. This area was designed as an industrial hub with a subdivision to house workers. Early companies that set up shop in the area included Menzies’ Wallpaper Factory, the Interior Wood Decorating Company, Ritchie and Ramsay, which made coated papers, DuPont’s Fabrikoid Factory, Donnell and Mudge, a leather firm, and Goodyear Tire. Goodyear closed in 1987. 1350 people were once employed there. From 1987 to 1991 numerous industries relocated, though a lot of industry remains active in the area. Campbell’s announced in 2018 they were closing their New Toronto facility after 90 years,ceasing soup production in Canada. It has been replaced with a massive warehousing space.

For more detailed info about New Toronto, check out etobicokehistorical.com.

Today’s walk is from the Islington Ave. bridge over the CNR tracks, and east along New Toronto Street to Dwight Ave. The communities along Lake Ontario from east to west are Mimico, from Humber River to Dwight Ave., New Toronto, from Dwight to Twenty Third Street, and Long Branch, from Twenty Third Street to Etobicoke Creek. These communities stretch north to the tracks. Today they are all part of the amalgamation of municipalities into the megacity we now have.

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