Talk:List of neighbourhoods in Toronto
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[edit] Too many?
Don't people think some of these neighborhoods are too small to show up on any map of Toronto? Maybe we should consolidate. 69.158.173.251 09:05, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
- Note that Toronto seems to have greater covereage in Wikipedia than most cities. This has come up on AfD occasionally, and it seems that Torontonians are willing to accept articles about smaller neighbourhoods, streets of less importance, smaller shopping malls, etc... than most other cities would allow. Segv11 (talk/contribs) 07:24, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Too many Toronto Nerds?
Too many nerds in Toronto who think that their street encompasses a neighborhood. So you just bought yourself a house or trendy condo and think your street deserves to be called a neighborhood, and you and your ego needs to be represented?....anyone from Upper Beaches?....I'm still trying to figure out if such a place exists. I know back at the turn of the century (1900) a village called East Toronto was in the area.
No! Yonge and Eglinton, or Yonge St.Clair is not considered a neighborhood. It was part of the town of North Toronto and in the 1980's and maybe earlier was referred to as the Uptown area.
Gees people ....c'omon, get a life —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.212.29.80 (talk) 04:53, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- Considering how Toronto keeps increasing in size, some of these "obscure" neighbourhoods actually have a larger population than the better known neighbourhoods of the past. What do we do about that? Continue to use only the old names, which are now many times their original size, or break them up into smaller areas of traditional community size? The latter is inevitable and sensible.
- The official City of Toronto website (which you can find links to in many of the article pages) is the best guide to what's an official neighbourhood, and what's just a developer's trendy name. I do agree the list probably has some names that don't qualify, and I see some red links. I suspect the template box at the bottom of most pages matches City Hall's list, and it has no red links. If the template is better, do we need this page at all? (We could keep it as a stub, remove the actual lists and just keep the template.)
- Regardless of what we decide, statements like "nerds" and "c'mon get a life" are not helpful. I don't think you are deliberately trolling, but you are using trolling words. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 02:56, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Broadview
Sorry, I've lived in Toronto my whole life and have never heard of an area called Broadview. I've edited it, if you can tell me where this area is, I'd be more than happy to let it stand. User:Nlsanand
- I'm sorry for the caps but, ARE YOU SERIOUS? Never? Look at the subway map. Look at the stop east of Castle Frank. Of course, perhaps you do know about Broadview, but are trying to say that there is no such neighbourhood, which I cannot verify. AAK 19:00, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Corso Italia
I'd like to request that someone write a Corso Italia (Toronto neighbourhood) article. I've already requested it in the "official" place, but I figured it couldn't hurt to put the request here too, since someone who might be interested in writing it might see it here. --Trovatore 03:44, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
- That should probably be Corso Italia, Toronto to keep with naming conventions. It's an interesing neighbourhood, and worth an article... but I'm not the one to write it. Segv11 (talk/contribs) 07:26, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Done. The article is a stub, and could do with expansion, etc., but I think its a reasonable start. Historical information on Corso Italia is difficult to find, but I managed to dig up a couple of websites. --Stetson 06:11, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Lawrence Park
Lawrence Parks is listed twice, once in "north end" (Old City) and again in North York. It is most definitely north end of the old city... the borders with North York fall outside the neighbourhood. I've deleted the duplicate. (The northern border of the old city was at the top of the descent into Hoggs Hollow, missing Lawrence park by almost 1km. The eastern border (in this area) crossed Lawrence Ave halfway down the hill between Wanless Crescent and Mildenhall Road... which means that the border was just barely outside the boundaries of Lawrence Park.) Segv11 (talk/contribs) 07:20, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Agreement in the Neighbourhood pages
I made the following comment on the Toronto discussion page, but perhaps it's more relevant here:
It would be good if some group effort could be put into building some unity and agreement in the Toronto Neighbourhood pages. Some of the information ends up being contradictory; for instance, on the Bloor Street page Portugal Village is listed as a community; however, the Portugal Village page says that the community is bound by Bathurst, Dundas, Queen and Trinity Bellwoods Park. This area doesn't include Bloor, so perhaps it shouldn't be listed as a community on Bloor St. I decided to start a discussion here, since it seems to me that agreement between the Toronto neighbourhood pages is a general issue.
Is there another place where this issue should be mentioned?--Stetson 04:34, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Officially-designated" neighbourhoods
I've been thinking that this page should at least the officially designated neighbourhoods of Toronto (ie. the neighbourhoods as listed here. Some of them already exist, while others don't, and I'd like to get an article for each official neighbourhood. A lot of the neighbourhoods on this list are "sub-neighbourhoods" of these official ones; perhaps the list can be formatted to take this into consideration? –Dvandersluis 14:16, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
- I agree with your plan. We should definitely have the subneighbourhoods listed under official ones. AAK 19:04, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
- Agree, since I found two more "Special signage" areas last week that I never heard of --Brat32 16:01, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Links
Check out the "Old Mill" link. This may confuse people because it links to an article that has nothing to do with the Old Mill community in Toronto. Are there other links like this one?
- Good catch - I've cleaned it up, and it appears there may be others too. This will need to be cleaned up. Mindmatrix 18:27, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] So many neighbourhoods
I'm not sure we need to add hundreds of "neighborhoods" based on http://www.toronto.ca/demographics/profiles_map_and_index.htm - maybe I've not been around Toronto enough, but most of these places I've never heard of. A lot of them seem to require db-context tags, But if we do have them, I think they need to be written differently. Many have been tagged as requiring a rewrite already - as they are not Wiki style. --Brat32 00:53, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Old Toronto and "Downtown" are not the same thing!
This article erroneously refers to the old city as downtown. I think very few people would argue that Lawrence Park, the Beaches, Corso Italia or Bloor West Village are part of "downtown Toronto." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.15.85.120 (talk) 19:47, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
I have a big problem with "Old Toronto" as well. I've always heard this term used to describe Toronto the way it was before the big fire of about 100 years ago, when Toronto was developing equally to the east and west of Yonge Street, as opposed to most 20th century development which was to the west (and it's only in the last decade that the east side is getting similar development).
I have no trouble with "Old City of Toronto", because 100 years ago people called Toronto a "town", and because "City of Toronto" was the common name for its pre-1998 boundaries. The big problem is, there is no current official name for the pre-1998 city area. "Central Toronto" is also good, but it isn't a common term. WP has an article titled "Old Toronto" about the former city boundaries, and I suspect the page used to be called "Old City of Toronto" because other pages point to that name, which is a redirect to the current page. It would probably be a mess to rename pages now, but could we at least consider using "Old City of Toronto" instead of "Old Toronto" in the neighbourhoods template, and also mention the older use of the term "Old Toronto" on the page of the same name (which I can do myself).
One more thing (to agree with what someone else said above): in any city, "Downtown" refers to the city's core, where everything's happen' and swingin'. If you're sitting out on your veranda in the Beeches, looking toward that big cluster of buildings yonder, you're not downtown. So no, Downtown is not the same as the former City of Toronto. The former is just a small part of the latter. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 03:13, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
