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| ca. 1942, looking northwest onto Main St. S. at St. John's Rd. (left) / Clouston Ave. (right) click to enlarge |
Of course, the residents of Edmund Avenue could have asked again but I deemed it unlikely as I had a 1924 and a 1935 map that still had the St. John's Rd. boundary. In my new search I did find a resolution to all this. On page 34 of the 11 November 1930 Toronto Daily Star was an article on Walter Pollett running for Weston's 1931 mayoralty:
"Mr. Pollett was elected to the [Weston] council a year after he became eligible, since previously his home on Edmund Ave. had been in Mount Dennis. Seven years ago this month a portion of Mount Dennis bounding the southern part of the town of Weston was annexed and Mr. Pollett was one of the most active supporters of this step."
So the boundary expansion happened in November 1923. The 1924 map might have missed the news, being too soon after. A close look at the 1935 map could find no year that was part of the map itself. I now feel that the 1935 may have been a library misidentification. I should have done more research using Might's Greater Toronto city directories! The 1942 edition, for example, lists a couple of addresses on Main St. S., south of St. John's Rd.
Looking further, I found a 1923 map of York Township that I had not previously come across. And yes, this map clearly excluded Edmund Avenue from the township:![]() |
| York Township (1923) click to enlarge |
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| Welcome to Weston (2019) click to enlarge |

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