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Scarboro' Beach Amusement Park

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted August, 2007

Photo Source - Wikimedia Commons

If you were to walk south from Queen Street East on Scarboro Beach Blvd., you will eventually arrive here at the Beaches Boardwalk. Right there you will see, standing on a short post, this 1993 Toronto Historical Board plaque. Here's what it says:

Coordinates: 43.668151 -79.292182

In 1906, the Toronto Park Company purchased the 17 ha O'Connor farm, south of Queen Street East between Leuty and MacLean Avenues, from the Sisters of St. Joseph. The Scarboro' Beach Park was formally opened on June 1, 1907 by Mayor Emerson Coatsworth. Its development was closely linked to the Toronto Railway Company's streetcar service to the area. The resort offered a hundred attractions including a .4 km long roller coaster ride, a "Shoot the Chutes" flume ride, a "Bump the Bumps" slide and a "Tunnel of Love." Performers used the 38 m tower for daredevil acts. At night, thousands of lights decorated the park. Professional lacrosse and other sports were played at the Athletic Grounds which featured a wooden velodrome. The first public exhibition flights in Canada were made here by Charles Willard in September 1909. The amusement park closed on September 12, 1925.

Related Toronto plaque
Sunnyside Amusement Park

More Beach neighbourhood plaques
The Beach Hebrew Institute
Beaches Branch, Toronto Public Library 1916
Community Centre 55
Dr. William D. Young Memorial
Glenn Gould
Kew Williams House 1902
Norway Post Office
St. John the Baptist, Norway
William Stewart Darling House 1873-1876

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