Neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ionview
is a neighbourhood in
Toronto
,
Ontario
, Canada, in the district of
Scarborough
. It is bounded by
Birchmount Road
to the west, the hydro transmission corridor north of Ranstone Gardens to the north, the CNR railway to the east, and Eglinton Avenue East,
Kennedy Road
and the CNR railway to the south.
Ionview is contained within the federal and provincial riding of
Scarborough Southwest
. It is represented by
Doly Begum
in the
Ontario Legislature
and
Bill Blair
in the
Parliament of Canada
. The
Toronto Police Service
's 41 Division is based in the neighbourhood.
History
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Portions of the area comprising modern Ionview were once contained in the former village of Wexford, founded in the 1840s, and Scarborough Junction, established in 1873. The area remained generally rural until the postwar housing boom of the 1940s and 1950s.
Ionview is a predominantly working-class neighbourhood, with 63% of the population residing in rented accommodation as of 2001, the majority in apartment towers. There was a higher percentage of children aged 0?4 in Ionview than the Toronto average as of 2001.
Recreation
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The
Taylor-Massey Creek
, an eastern tributary of the
Don River
, flows through the Eglinton Ravine in the southwest portion of Ionview. Green space within the neighbourhood includes Eglinton Ravine Park, extending from Eglinton Avenue East to the railway, centrally located Ionview Park, and Jack Goodlad Community Park in the north.
Municipal parks in Ionview are managed by the
Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division
.
Transportation
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The neighbourhood is well-connected to the rest of the city by public transit, served by the
Toronto Transit Commission
's (TTC)
bus routes
17 Birchmount, 34 Eglinton East, and 43 Kennedy bus routes.
Kennedy station
, the eastern terminus of the
Bloor-Danforth subway
and southern terminus of the
Scarborough RT
, is immediately south of Ionview.
Eglinton Avenue East
is a major east-west road that passes through Ionview.
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Places adjacent to Ionview
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