West) and the midpoint between Twenty-Second and Twenty-Fourth Streets (north of Lake Shore Blvd.

West), the Canadian National Railway mainline to the north, and Dwight Avenue to the east.

[1][2][3] New Toronto is now centred around the intersection of Seventh Street/ Islington Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard West with a commercial strip running east–west along the latter street.

Residential streets generally run north–south from Lake Ontario north to Birmingham Street, except for the Lakeshore Grounds (formerly the Mimico Lunatic Asylum / Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital) to the southwest which extends from Lake Shore Blvd.

New Toronto is now a neighbourhood in transition, as the industrial corridor located at the north end of the community is being redeveloped after having been vacant and fallow for many years.

Lakeshore Village, a community of co-operative housing between 9th and 13th Streets, north of Lake Shore Boulevard.

West, was built by The Daniels Corp. developers, on the former Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company site.

The loss of the former employment base resulted in a considerable downtrend in local business viability, which the lower-income housing could never replace.

In 1890, new streets for the Town of New Toronto were laid out in several series, essentially without names by simply using ordinal numbers (First, Second, Third, etc.).

In 1890, a plan of subdivision was filed by a group of industrialists and the first streets laid out for the Town of New Toronto by the Mimico Real Estate Security Company.

A few worker's homes were built on early streets north of Lake Shore Road while development proceeded.

With the First World War raging, new industries arrived in New Toronto - most notably Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company established a plant in 1916-17 which quickly became the town's largest employer.

[13] At the same time, the new mayor William Jackson donated land for a Public Library Building.

[14] In 1930, the Campbell Soup Company Ltd. had arrived in New Toronto[15] commissioning architects Mathers and Holdenby to build an Art Deco factory at 60 Birmingham Street (c.

The curriculum of NTSS focused on the sciences and skilled trades (i.e. calculus, functions, geometry, physics, biology, auto mechanics, woodworking, machine shop, electrical shops; to name some of the major study areas).

Each municipality retained its own town council and government, but several infrastructure departments were transferred to Metro.

In New Toronto, to serve the large local population of Ukrainians who had settled in the area over the years, St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church was built in 1954 on Sixth Street (just north of St. Margaret's Anglican Church).

While many Ukrainian and Polish immigrants lived in New Toronto and surrounding communities beginning early in the 20th century, more arrived after the Communist Bloc collapsed in 1989.

At the same time the Toronto By-Pass line allowed for the creation of GO Transit commuter service between Oakville and Pickering.

[20] Recent attempts to rejuvenate New Toronto include the protection of remaining industrial lands for employment.

The former Mimico Lunatic Asylum buildings and grounds became the new site of Humber College's Lake Shore campus.

The Lakeshore district experienced a constant heightened demand for skilled trades due to the numerous major industries and supporting businesses located there.

St. Teresa's school was established in 1957 during a post war population boom in the, then independent, Town of New Toronto, including many families from predominantly Catholic countries, especially Poland.

Major ethnic populations (2016): New Toronto always had a large industrial base including plants operated by: Ritchie and Ramsay Co. paper mills, Anaconda American Brass Ltd., Canadian Industries Ltd., Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Ltd., Plibrico, Charis Ltd., W & A Gilbey Ltd., Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd. (all demolished), as well as the Campbell Soup Company of Canada Ltd. and Dominion Colour Corporation Ltd. (surviving), McDonald Stamping Works/Robert Menzie Wallpaper Co./Reg.