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Thorncliffe Park
Thorncliffe Park is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the former Borough of East York.
The City of Toronto recognizes Thorncliffe Park's boundaries as the Don River on the south side; Leaside Bridge, Millwood Road, and Laird Drive on the west side; the West Don River on the east side; and Eglinton Avenue East on the north side.
Thorncliffe Park takes its name from Thorn Cliff House, the first Toronto home of the Taylor family in the 19th century. The house stood on approximately 33 hectares (82 acres) of farmland purchased in 1831 by British settler John Taylor at the Forks of the Don Valley, in what is now E.T. Seton Park.
The property was acquired from Samuel Sinclair and had previously been farmed by Parshall Terry. Settlement records for the area date back to 1800, just seven years after the founding of the Town of York.
Thorn Cliff House remained the Taylor family home until 1888 and was demolished in the 1940s.
With growing business interests in horse and cattle breeding, farming, lumbering, and milling throughout the mid-19th century, John Taylor’s sons increased the family’s land holdings to thousands of acres in the Don Valley and surrounding table lands. This included all the land between the future Leslie Street and Don Valley Parkway, to a half mile north of Eglinton Avenue East, including the future Flemingdon Park. Six hundred acres of this land became known as Thorn Cliff Farm.
By 1888, a prominent Toronto businessperson and Taylor son-in-law named Robert T. Davies had purchased 600 acres of land including the original family home, Thorn Cliff. Davies founded Thorncliffe Stock Farm, sometimes referred to as Thorncliffe Stable, which became a world-famous facility for breeding Clydesdales, standardbreds, and the largest thoroughbred stable in Canada. Davies’s sons relocated the stables to Thornhill, Ontario after selling a significant portion of the farm in 1920 to American investors to operate a racetrack, doing business under the name Thorncliffe Park Racing and Breeding Association Ltd.
When it opened in 1920, Thorncliffe Park was Toronto's fourth racetrack. As a track for thoroughbred horse racing and harness racing, it had grandstand and bleacher capacity for 4,000 spectators, and stables for 610 horses. Canada's finest thoroughbreds were run at Thorncliffe, featured in important races like the Clarendon Stakes, the Prince of Wales Stakes, and the My Dear Stakes. The standardbred Maple Leaf Trot also originated at Thorncliffe.
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Thorncliffe Park
Thorncliffe Park is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the former Borough of East York.
The City of Toronto recognizes Thorncliffe Park's boundaries as the Don River on the south side; Leaside Bridge, Millwood Road, and Laird Drive on the west side; the West Don River on the east side; and Eglinton Avenue East on the north side.
Thorncliffe Park takes its name from Thorn Cliff House, the first Toronto home of the Taylor family in the 19th century. The house stood on approximately 33 hectares (82 acres) of farmland purchased in 1831 by British settler John Taylor at the Forks of the Don Valley, in what is now E.T. Seton Park.
The property was acquired from Samuel Sinclair and had previously been farmed by Parshall Terry. Settlement records for the area date back to 1800, just seven years after the founding of the Town of York.
Thorn Cliff House remained the Taylor family home until 1888 and was demolished in the 1940s.
With growing business interests in horse and cattle breeding, farming, lumbering, and milling throughout the mid-19th century, John Taylor’s sons increased the family’s land holdings to thousands of acres in the Don Valley and surrounding table lands. This included all the land between the future Leslie Street and Don Valley Parkway, to a half mile north of Eglinton Avenue East, including the future Flemingdon Park. Six hundred acres of this land became known as Thorn Cliff Farm.
By 1888, a prominent Toronto businessperson and Taylor son-in-law named Robert T. Davies had purchased 600 acres of land including the original family home, Thorn Cliff. Davies founded Thorncliffe Stock Farm, sometimes referred to as Thorncliffe Stable, which became a world-famous facility for breeding Clydesdales, standardbreds, and the largest thoroughbred stable in Canada. Davies’s sons relocated the stables to Thornhill, Ontario after selling a significant portion of the farm in 1920 to American investors to operate a racetrack, doing business under the name Thorncliffe Park Racing and Breeding Association Ltd.
When it opened in 1920, Thorncliffe Park was Toronto's fourth racetrack. As a track for thoroughbred horse racing and harness racing, it had grandstand and bleacher capacity for 4,000 spectators, and stables for 610 horses. Canada's finest thoroughbreds were run at Thorncliffe, featured in important races like the Clarendon Stakes, the Prince of Wales Stakes, and the My Dear Stakes. The standardbred Maple Leaf Trot also originated at Thorncliffe.
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