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Welcome to HIGHLAND CREEK Ontario, Canada |
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Our boundaries (a triangular area) are: the Highway 401 (MacDonald/Cartier Freeway) on the
north; On the west, Morningside south to The Highland Creek - follow the Creek to The Queen's Highway #2A to the confluence with Highway 401. (See Map below)
This Website created and maintained by Ken Woolley,
(former)Vice-President of the Highland Creek Community Association (H.C.C.A.)
AND former Editor of THE VILLAGER, our community Newspaper. This Web-Page,
in part, will be continuously in an up-date mode.
July 23rd - NOTE: Change of EDITOR: Effective immediately, the new Editor
of The Villager is ANDREAS SCHUNK. Andreas can be reached by e-mail at
schunk@sympatico.ca and, by phone, at 416-282-0784 during regular business
hours. The Villager does NOT have a "real office"; both Mr. Schunk and
Mr. Woolley operate The Villager out of their own homes.
WEBSITE: While the Editor of the newspaper has changed, the Webmaster
has not. The Villager portion is NOT intended to reproduce the Newspaper
itself, but rather to continuously update with news and events that have
happened in between production of the Newspaper, are time-dated or for which
there simply was not available space.
To contact the Webmaster for information, comments, suggestions,
etc.: The Village of Highland Creek in pictures. To enlarge
any picture, click on the picture THE H.C.C.A: Membership in the Association is currently $3.00 per year. The
current
President is Clancy Delbarre.
THE VILLAGER: as of April, 2002, was in its 26th year of
continuous existence, believed to be somewhat of a record for this type of
publication. We publish five times a year, beginning with the
September/October edition and ending with the May/June Heritage Day Edition
(matching the school year). There is NO edition in July/August.
ADVERTISING RATES AND SIZES ARE (all SIZES are in INCHES, INCLUDING
BORDERS): Business Card: $20.00; 1/8 page - 5 X 3&1/2 - $28.00; 1/4 page - 5 X 7 - $45.00;
1/2 page - 7&1/2 by 10&1/2 - $72.00; Full Page (Regular) 15&1/2 X 10&1/2; SPECIAL PAGES:
(See Full Page for Size) BACK PAGE - $150.00; PAGE 3 - $135.00.
NEXT DEADLINE: April 28th, 2002 - PLEASE NOTE:
Effective April, 2002, there will be NO time extensions.
Looking
east along Old Kingston Road, north side. In addition to the Supermarket, the
Village contains a flower shop, dress shop, drug store, paint & wallpaper, book
shop, bakery, etc.
It remains one of the oldest communities in the former City of Scarborough.
Ted's Restaurant,
well
known locally for good food at reasonable prices, is also our own "Hollywood
North", having
been used as a locale in a recent film "Pushing Tin". This summer, 1999, saw
Ms. Debbie
Reynolds on location here. Highland Creek has become very popular recently with
the motion
picture/television industry.
Run by the Spiritan Fathers, St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church is the oldest
R.C. church in
Scarborough. Located at the north-west corner of Morrish Road and Old Kingston
Road, it
recently underwent major expansion renovations to accommodate its growing number
of
parishioners.
St. Anne's
Ukrainian Orthodox Church dominates the north-east corner of Morrish Road and
Ellesmere.
A small parkette at the bottom of Morrish Road is kept beautiful thanks to
Three R Auto
Body.
One of two historical murals which grace Highland Creek, this one is on
the side of a building, previously a hardware store, now devoted to the personal
making of wines
and beer.
Now called Woodland, this Plaza for years has been known as the Fundry
Plaza.
A Highland Creek landmark for years, Nautilus Arts and Crafts closed at
the end of August, 1999. Nearby Village Meats was our local deli.
Historic sign at the entrance to the burial ground in the heart of the
Highland Creek Village.
In the middle of the Village, this Wesleyan Cemetary dates from the time of King
George the
Third and remains a quiet spot for reading today.
NOTE: For the May/June (Heritage Day) Edition, The Villager is distributed further afield, thus the RATES for each size increase slightly.
The Villager is ENTIRELY voluntary, from the Editor down to its door to door delivery persons, many of whom have been with us for years. Our advertisers pay the bills - our ad rates are kept deliberately low to encourage advertising; indeed we are much lower than any of our sister publications. Normally, The Villager is delivered FREE to every house, business and professional office in our serving area.
The following streets have NO Delivery person. Effective with the September/October/2002 edition, there WILL be NO FURTHER delivery to these streets until a volunteer delivery person can be found.
DEVONRIDGE CRESCENT
ELLESMERE (3601 & around corner on Morrish) to include Ritz Gardens
(off Morrish)
GOLDENE WAY (from Fawnridge north)
KINGSTON RD: (North side 6428-6550, South side 6353 to 6349 AND North
Side 6158 to 6282 and South side 6149 to 6269)
LAVERY TRAIL (Even Numbers)
ORLEANS DRIVE (from Muirhead to 401, both sides
PONYMEADOW TERRACE (1-163)
If you know someone who lives on these streets,
advise them that their street WILL not get delivered.
COPIES ARE OFTEN AVAILABLE AT ALBION BOOKS, FELICIA'S, and other locations
in The Village OR at the Highland Creek Branch of the Library.
In addition,the Heritage Day Edition (May/June) is distributed to
our sister organization, the Centennial Community Recreation Association
as an adjunct to their own CCRA News. (See Link at the end of this site.)
Also visit our sister Community Association
The West Rouge C.A.
DOES YOUR LOCAL ORGANIZATION HAVE A WEB-SITE? Let us know and
we will add a link. Not to be Commercial advertisements. Such items as
Churches, Boy Scouts, Craft Shows, Local Events, etc.
ONGOING EVENTS, GROUPS:
PICTURES FROM THE CANADA DAY WEEKEND - 2000 - THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION CELEBRATIONS.
CULTURAL RESOURCES IN SCARBOROUGH
Scarborough is blessed with many fine groups bringing to the public good quality music, plays and musical theatre. Located at the Scarborough Village Recreation Centre, virtual year-round stage productions are put on by the Scarborough Music Theatre, Scarborough Players and Scarborough Theatre Guild under the umbrella name of PLAYHOUSE 66.
For full details as to programming, prices, locations of concerts, please visit
them at the Scarborough
Philharmonic. You'll be glad you did!
THE QUEEN MOTHER
Where: For starting location, call 416-447-4895 or send an email to bea@beamccowan.com
Tour Guides: Bruce and Bea McCowan of the "Scarboro Heights Record".
Cost: For individuals or couples who purchase "Neigh The Front -- Exploring Scarboro Heights" there is no cost. Please order your copy of this 142 page book soon because space in the tour is limited. (Proceeds go to the Janet McCowan Fincham Memorial Scarborough Community Studies Program.)
How to Order "Neigh the Front" and Register for the Tour: Send $17.00 cheque to the James McCowan Memorial Social History Society, c/o 19 Monarchwood Crescent, Don Mills, Ont., M3A 1H3, 416-447-4895
We are rather flattered that the McCowan Settlement site of 1833 is one of only 14 Lost Heritage Sites in Toronto that are described on the
Quoting from that Toronto Planning Dept web page: "Ideally, this document will inspire people to do more to research and commemorate the stories of the people and events of Toronto"
But we think there should also be a strong expression of "What can be done in the context of developing Toronto that continues the good works represented in the report" -- historic plaques, parks, interpretive educational programs, walking tours, publications, easements for significant sites, reproduction construction and public art.
One such project is our May 25 walking tour of the Scarboro Heights waterfront area (McCowan Road - Bellamy Road area) including the McCowan Settlement Lost Historic Site.
Bring your camera and your copy of Neigh the Front! Sites and spots and points of discussion on the tour include:
1) Sisters of St. Joseph Convent, barn and "chicken coop" (1917)
2) Highest point on the Scarborough Bluffs
3) An attempted suicide (jumping down the Bluffs, 1898)
4) 19th century geodetic survey tower
5) Settlement of early archaic peoples (8,000 BC) (earliest evidence of human occupation in Toronto)
6) Scarborough Heights Park at the end of the Radial Line spur (ca 1906)
7) Lunatic terrorizing the neighbourhood (1918)
8) Birthplace of William Ewart Young, co-founder of the McLeod, Young, Weir brokerage firm
9) An apology from Tim Horton of the Toronto Maple Leafs (ca 1966)
10) The first McCowan Road road-sign
11) Washington / McCowan farmhouse on McCowan Road (ca 1840 / 1917)
12) The "Old Orchard" -- the remaining apple trees are over a hundred years old
13) "Morality Lights" in Halbert schoolyard (1961)
14) The original line of Kingston Road through McCowan Park (pre 1837)
15) The fields that produced prize-winning grain year after year (1910-20)
16) A fatal lightning strike (1962)
17) Stories of homelessness during the depression
18) Stan Chester and his store (ca 1920)
19) Kingston Road Toll Gate and Potash Works (early 19th century)
20) Gates Tavern, the rallying point for the Scarborough loyalists during the Rebellion of 1837
21) Blacksmith shop (mid 19th c)
22) American smugglers coming up Gates Gully (early 19th c)
23) Attempts to subdivide south of Kingston Road at Bellamy as far back as 1891
24) Toronto gentry and their country estates (c 1910)
25) Remnants of the old road to "the flats"
26) Shoreline of the pre-historic Lake Iroquois
27) Original McCowan settlement near Meadowcliffe Drive (1833) where father and son both died of cholera the same night
28) Wreck of the Alexandria (1915)
And much more. The tour will likely take a little over 2 hours. (There will be three opportunities during the tour to take short-cuts back to the parking lot.)
on Lawson Road(opposite St. Dunstan of Canterbury Church)
Contacts: G. McConnell - 416-282-5754, Doug Puddester - 416-724-5231,
Clancy Delbarre - 416-281-8147.
See also The Highland
Creek Heritage Festival Site.
The store is being acquired by the City and it is planned to be renovated and restored as near as possible to its original condition. It will house the Scarborough Historical Society archives and provide a meeting room for the Highland Creek Community Association. Thanks to the efforts of Rick Schofield and Ron Moeser who vigorously championed the acquisition.
HERITAGE DAY: Each year, in mid-June, Highland Creek Heritage Day occurs. Consisting of many vendors of crafts and garden supplies, a big parade, kiddie rides, a beer garden, this has grown steadily over the last 15 years.
Anyone with photographs of the 1999 Heritage Day or Scarborough East 2000 Festival is asked to contact the Editor/Webmaster.
Highland Creek is located in the easterly end of what was the City of
Scarborough. Until December 31st of 1997, there were several large cities
and boroughs, each with their own Mayor and Aldermen/Councillors amalgamated
into a large Municipal Corporation called The Municipality of Metropolitan
Toronto. Effective January 1st of 1998, the Provincial Government of Ontario
decided to cause Metro, as it was known, to cease to exist and to create in its
stead, the "New" City of Toronto. Although now the City of Toronto, (fifth largest in North
America) many community sub-names have remained; thus it is with Highland
Creek - one of the oldest communities within the NEW TORONTO
SPECIAL THANKS: To three very helpful persons, whose invaluable assistance
helped get this Site off the ground - (all via e-mail):
Jan Allinder of Jackson, Mississippi,
Dave Rennie of Billings, Montana and Andy Bowers of the
Centennial
Community Recreation Association
CREDITS: Ontario and
Canadian Flags
This Site last updated May 29th, 2002