Armour Heights is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the district of North York.

The area is named after John Armour, a farmer who bought land on the west side of Yonge from James Hogg in 1838.

[1] In 1910 the land was purchased by developer and speculator Colonel Frederick Burton Robins, who built a large estate for himself named Strathrobyn (completed in 1914).

The air force returned to the area in 1943, when it leased Strathrobyn as an officer's mess and training school.

The post-war years saw the steady development of the neighbourhood, and all the farmland was transformed into middle-class suburban housing by the beginning of the 1970s.

Bathurst Street is lined with a number of Jewish stores and restaurants, and synagogues such as Adath Israel.

[citation needed] An important landmark is Toronto's Holocaust Memorial, which is located just north of the community in Earl Bales Park.

The highway runs east-west, connecting the neighbourhood with the rest of Greater Toronto, and southern Ontario.

Public transportation in Armour Heights is served by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) bus system.