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Originally known as the Third Concession Line (with what is now Queen being the First and Bloor the Second), St. Clair started getting some traction when a water-powered gristmill opened in the mid-1830s to join the already established market gardens. In 1839, the balance shifted in favour of the residential when Agnes Heath and her children moved onto a 40-acre plot of land, noticed a lot of deer milling about and called it Deer Park.

Deer Park is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, centred on the intersection of Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue; its boundaries are the Vale of Avoca section of Rosedale ravine in the east, Farnham Avenue and Jackes Avenue in the south, Avenue Road and Oriole Parkway in the west, the Belt Line trail in the north on the west side of Yonge Street, and Glen Elm Avenue in the north on the east side of Yonge Street. For the purposes of social policy analysis & research, the city of Toronto’s Social Development & Administration division includes Deer Park within the City of Toronto's official "Rosedale-Moore Park" and "Yonge-St.Clair" neighbourhood profiles.

As transportation to the wild north started to improve in the 1890s, more and more people began settling Yonge-St. Clair. The tide shifted again in 1954, when the subway brought businesses north, and office towers, such as the Imperial Oil and Mutual Life buildings, started sprouting up. We’re now seeing a return to the way things were, as just last year the Mutual Life building reopened as One12 St. Clair, a high-end condo with two $3.5-million penthouses. The Avenue and Churchill Park are following close behind. The architecturally acclaimed Imperial Oil building across the street from One12 is empty and forlorn, waiting for its condo prince to come and give aging Forest Hillers a nice place to move into for their final acts. There’s more to Yonge– St. Clair than Yonge and St. Clair: 150 Balmoral, at the corner of Avenue and Balmoral, was built in 1929 by S. B. Coon and Son, and stands as one of the stateliest Gothic rental buildings this side of the Atlantic. The Algiers apartments to the north are the very picture of swinging 1960s cocktail party pads. Several public high schools dot the neighbourhood, including The Linden School and Deer Park Public School, private schools including De La Salle College Oaklands, Branksome Hall, The York School and Upper Canada College.

Demographics

Top 10 Ethnic Origins

Ethnic origin refers to the ethnic or cultural group(s) to which the respondent's ancestors self-identified. Ethnic Origins are from the Total Responses category and may not add up to the same amount in the Regions category. Source: Statistics Canada, 2006 Census

Real Estate in Yonge-St.Clair Neighbourhood

Average sale price for C2 on June 2011: $822,550
Property Crime: average
Crime against People: very low

HOUSING STOCK: Dignified brick luxury homes on Chaplin and Oriole Parkway facing Upper Canada College are on the more ambitious end of the price scale and set the architectural tone for the smaller homes, all of which are now being joined by an increasing number of high- and ultra-high-end condos.

BARGAIN ZONES: Older townhouses on such streets as Alcorn and Walker Avenues and two-storey brick boxes on Hillsdale Avenue West and Lawton Boulevard are in the (still comfortably high) lower end.

THE VERDICT: This narrow strip of city has been on the rise, both commercially and residentially, for upwards of a decade, and it shows no sign of slowing down. If you can afford it, it’s one of the most well-rounded neighbourhoods in the city, with plenty of amenities.

NEIGHBOURHOOD HOT SPOTS:

Cava Tucked away at the end of an arcade, Chris McDonald and Doug Penfold’s Spanish tapas restaurant is a place of pilgrimage for food lovers. Servers are smooth and well-informed. 1560 Yonge St., 416-979-9918.

Didier Much of Didier Leroy’s classically conceived, meticulously presented French food is admirably simple. For example, the tender roasted Cornish hen that’s wrapped in flavourful prosciutto. 1496 Yonge St., 416-925-8588.

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SUSHI GARDEN JAPANESE RESTAURANT

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LETTUCE EATERY

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CAVA

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DIDIER

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GOURMET CAFÉ

Comfort foods abound in this spacious and casual lunch spot. Reasonably priced midday meals listed ... (0.57 km away)

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XOCOCAVA Pronounced “cho-co-cava,” (“xoco” means cocoa in Catalan), this Spanish- and Latin American–influenced sweets shop is ... (0.45 km away)
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