Eglinton East

Eglinton East
Neighbourhood


Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
City	Toronto

Eglinton East, also known as Knob Hill or unofficially, Pringdale is a neighbourhood in eastern Toronto, in the district of Scarborough. It is bounded by Stansbury Crescent, Citadel Drive, and West Highland Creek to the north, Midland Avenue to the west, the CNR rail line, Brimley Road, and Eglinton Avenue to the south, and Bellamy Road North to the east.

Eglinton East is a working-class neighbourhood with a high percentage of immigration to the area. Sri Lanka has produced the most immigration to the area over the past decade and correspondingly the most spoken (non English) language is Tamil. There is a large number of East Indian, Filipino and Jamaican people living in this neighbourhood. While there is an equal number of Chinese the other figures are above average.

The residents of this neighbourhood primarily live in high rise buildings with only 22% of people owning their place of residence.

Schools

Tabor Park Vocational School (now known as Jean Vanier Catholic Secondary School since 1989-90.

Tabor Park Vocational School is a former technical school built in 1964 and established on September 7, 1965 by the Scarborough Board of Education to meet the needs of the large baby boom generation in the newly and rapidly developing area of the city. It was closed in 1986 when Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies started and the property was later transferred to the Metropolitan Separate School Board (now Toronto Catholic District School Board) as Jean Vanier Catholic Secondary School since 1989 as Central Scarborough's first Catholic high school to ease overcrowding at Cardinal Newman. Today, Jean Vanier now serves over 1000 students and underwent renovations over the years. The school was named after the son of Georges Vanier, Jean Vanier. The founder of the L'Arche communities worldwide.

Glen Ravine Junior Public School

Glen Ravine Junior Public School is located on 2 Gadsby Drive. It was opened in 1956 as a K-8 school and was designated Junior with openings of Charles Gordon and Robert Service senior schools in 1971.

Lord Roberts Junior Public School

Lord Roberts Junior Public School was opened in 1958 as a K-8 school and changed to Junior status in 1971. It was named after Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts.

John McCrae Public School (formerly John McCrae Senior Public School from 1969-2011).

McCowan Road Junior Public School (1954-2011, was K-8 until 1969).

Pringdale Gardens Junior Public School (1963-2013, was K-8 until 1969). Now demolished.

John McCrae Public School designed by Raymond Moriyama, was built in 1968 and opened in 1969 as a Senior Public School serving grades 7 and 8 named to commemorate Canadian Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, MD, who, in 1915, composed the poem, "In Flanders Fields". The motto is "The Torch - Be Yours to Hold It High". McCrae became a JK-8 school in September 2011 following the closures of two feeder schools, McCowan Road Junior Public School (opened in 1954 as a JK-8 school; became JK-6) in 2011 and Pringdale Gardens Junior Public School (opened in 1963 as a JK-8 school; became JK-6) in 2013 with the latter site sold. However, Pringdale was demolished in late 2013 and McCowan remains intact as the Wali ul asr East Campus, an Islamic school leased from the Toronto District School Board.

St. Nicholas Catholic School, with its new building.

St. Nicholas Catholic School is a public-separate school located on 33 Amarillo Drive. It was built in 1965 and was officially opened and blessed in 1966. The building was replaced with a new, modern three-storey school in 2013. St. Nicholas serves as the school's namesake.

External links

City of Toronto - Eglinton East Neighbourhood Profile

Bendale

Ionview

Woburn

Eglinton East

Cliffcrest
Scarborough Junction

Neighbourhoods in Toronto

Old Toronto	Alexandra Park The Annex The Beaches Bedford Park Bickford Park Bloor West Village Bloor Street Culture Corridor Bloordale Village Bracondale Hill Brockton Village Cabbagetown Carleton Village Casa Loma Chaplin Estates Chinatown Church and Wellesley CityPlace Corktown Corso Italia Davenport Davisville Village Deer Park Discovery District Distillery District Downtown Yonge Dovercourt Park Dufferin Grove Earlscourt East Bayfront District East Danforth East Toronto Entertainment District Fashion District Financial District Forest Hill Garden District Gerrard India Bazaar Grange Park Greektown Harbord Village Harbourfront High Park North The Junction Junction Triangle Kensington Market Koreatown Lawrence Park Leslieville Liberty Village Little Italy Little Portugal Lytton Park Midtown Moore Park Moss Park Niagara North Toronto Norway Old Town Palmerston Parkdale Playter Estates Port Lands Queen Street West Railway Lands Regent Park Riverdale Roncesvalles Rosedale Runnymede St. James Town St. Lawrence Seaton Village South Hill South Core Summerhill Swansea Toronto Islands Trefann Court Trinity–Bellwoods Upper Beaches Uptown Toronto The Ward West Don Lands (Canary District) Wychwood Park Yonge and Eglinton Yorkville

North York	Amesbury Armour Heights Bathurst Manor Bayview Village Bayview Woods – Steeles Bermondsey Bridle Path Clanton Park Don Mills Don Valley Village Downsview Flemingdon Park Glen Park Graydon Hall Henry Farm Hillcrest Village Hoggs Hollow Humber Summit Humbermede Jane and Finch Lansing Lawrence Heights Lawrence Manor Maple Leaf Newtonbrook North York Centre Parkway Forest Parkwoods Pelmo Park – Humberlea Pleasant View Victoria Village Westminster–Branson Willowdale York Mills York University Heights

Scarborough	Agincourt Armadale Bendale Birch Cliff Brown's Corners Clairlea Cliffcrest Cliffside Dorset Park Eglinton East Golden Mile Guildwood Highland Creek Ionview L'Amoreaux Malvern Maryvale Milliken Morningside Morningside Heights Oakridge Port Union Rouge Scarborough City Centre Scarborough Junction Scarborough Village Steeles Tam O'Shanter – Sullivan West Hill West Rouge Wexford Woburn

Etobicoke	Alderwood Clairville Eatonville The Elms Eringate – Centennial – West Deane Humber Heights – Westmount Humber Valley Village Islington-City Centre West Humberwood Kingsview Village The Kingsway Long Branch Markland Wood Mimico New Toronto Princess Gardens Rexdale Richview The Queensway – Humber Bay Smithfield Thistletown

York	Baby Point Fairbank Humewood–Cedarvale Lambton Little Jamaica Mount Dennis Oakwood–Vaughan Old Mill Rockcliffe–Smythe Silverthorn Tichester Weston

East York	Bermondsey Crescent Town Governor's Bridge Leaside O'Connor–Parkview Old East York Pape Village Thorncliffe Park

Italics indicate neighbourhoods now defunct. For information on the evolution of each neighbourhood in general, see History of neighbourhoods in Toronto.

Coordinates: 43°44′24″N 79°14′46″W / 43.740°N 79.246°W / 43.740; -79.246

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