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In 1857, Reesor registered a plan of subdivision and advertised 50 foot by 150 foot residential lots, proclaiming that “by its being in the centre of Scarborough, Malvern Village will form the capital, where business of the township must be, in time, mainly transacted”.
Malvern is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with a population of 44,315. [2] It is located in the northeast corner of the city. There are over 60 different cultures represented in Malvern, with the most dominant ethnic groups being Caribbean Canadians (mostly Jamaican , Trinidadian , and Guyanese ) and South Asian Canadians (mostly Sri Lankan Tamil , Indian , and ...
Reesor trumpeted Malvern as the future “Capital of Scarborough,” anticipating that the Grand Trunk Railway would extend a branch line through here. Unfortunately, when the Grand Trunk Railway began service to this area in 1871, it bypassed Malvern in favour of the neighbouring village of Agincourt.
Communities. Scarborough Community Names. (All information excerpted from “Scarborough Then and Now: 1796-1996”. published by the Scarborough Historical Society) In 1793 Elizabeth Simcoe noted the resemblance of the bold highlands east of Toronto to the chalk cliffs of Scarborough in Yorkshire, England. Accordingly, her husband Lieutenant ...
Reesor trumpeted Malvern as the future "Capital of Scarborough," anticipating that the Grand Trunk Railway would extend a branch line through here. However, when the Grand Trunk Railway began service to this area in 1871, it bypassed Malvern in favour of the neighbouring village of Agincourt.
Random Facts about Scarborough, Ontario: Scarborough was incorporated as a township in 1850, became a borough in 1967, was incorporated as a city in 1983 and local government was amalgamated as part of the City of Toronto by provincial decree in 1997.
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A year later Senator David Reesor from Markham Village began selling “Village Lots” in Malvern envisioning it as the Capital of Scarborough ” counting on a railway connection by the Grand Trunk Railway. However when the railway started operations in 1871 it chose Agincourt over Malvern.
