Celebrating 110 years of Leaside’s Garden City Principles

As we celebrate our 110th anniversary, I can’t help thinking about the importance of gardening to our neighbourhood.

Rooted in the DNA of the design Frederick Todd created for us by using the Garden City Principles, gardens and the love of nature might be the very glue that has held our community together so strongly –and greenly.

As our lives and times have changed throughout history, so have our gardens, and they continue to evolve.

Let’s take a look back at how we came to where we are today.

The Frederick Todd plan was officially adopted in May of 1913, but development got off to a slow start.

Fun Fact: Coincidently, Sheridan Nursery opened their doors in 1913. According to their well-documented history, there wasn’t much gardening here at that time. They started their own nursery specifically to bring the “English garden style” to Toronto. By 1929, there were only 68 homes