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New Toronto, Toronto — Area Guide & Where to Stay
New Toronto is a Toronto neighbourhood and former lakeshore municipality, planned from 1890 as an industrial town facing Lake Ontario.
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Where to stay in New Toronto
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Beds sit close to the water. New Toronto keeps the street grid a group of Toronto industrialists laid out in 1890 after a study trip to Rochester, New York, so the blocks run tight and level down to the Lake Ontario shore. The Ford Performance Centre draws its own traffic.
Anyone booking for a rink date or for the quieter stretch near St. Teresa Roman Catholic Church will find the neighbourhood small enough to cross on foot, with the rest of Etobicoke and its other Lakeshore Municipalities next door.
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The Lake Ontario frontage
the 1890 plan set the Town of New Toronto against Lake Ontario, and this is the edge of the former municipality that faces open water rather than the Etobicoke streets inland. Lodging is scarce in this area; reserve in advance.Find hotels in The Lake Ontario frontagearriving for ice time at the Ford Performance CentreBeside the Ford Performance Centre
the Ford Performance Centre is the largest named draw recorded inside New Toronto, and a bed beside it removes the run across Etobicoke to reach the rinks. Lodging is scarce in this area; reserve in advance.Find hotels in Beside the Ford Performance Centrethe older residential blocks around St. Teresa Roman Catholic ChurchAround St. Teresa Roman Catholic Church
St. Teresa Roman Catholic Church stands among the streets the New Toronto industrialists drew in 1890, set back from the Lake Ontario frontage. Beds are limited here, so book early.Find hotels in Around St. Teresa Roman Catholic ChurchHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
About New Toronto
What are the main landmarks in New Toronto?
Two named sites carry the record. The Ford Performance Centre is the first, a training facility on the New Toronto side of the Toronto lakeshore, and St. Teresa Roman Catholic Church is the second, a parish that carries the neighbourhood's own name in its dedication. Both stand within the old town plat.
Nothing in the record places either outside what was once the Town of New Toronto, the industrial centre drawn in 1890 on land held by the Township of Etobicoke.
What is the history of New Toronto?
1890 is the founding year. A group of Toronto industrialists, back from a visit to Rochester, New York, laid out the Town of New Toronto as a planned industrial centre on ground then belonging to the Township of Etobicoke. Independence came in 1913.
It held until 1967, when the town was folded in with the other Lakeshore Municipalities to form the Borough of Etobicoke, and the name stayed on the neighbourhood after that borough went into Toronto.
Where is New Toronto?
New Toronto takes a strip of the Toronto lakeshore, fronting Lake Ontario with the older ground of Etobicoke lying inland behind it.
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What is the best area to stay in New Toronto?
The Lake Ontario frontage: waking up on the Lake Ontario water the Town of New Toronto was platted against. Beside the Ford Performance Centre: arriving for ice time at the Ford Performance Centre. Around St. Teresa Roman Catholic Church: the older residential blocks around St. Teresa Roman Catholic Church.
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Updated October 2026