North York, Toronto — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in North York?

The Gibson House anchors the district's built landmarks. It stands among the older streets as a preserved farmhouse from the years before North York grew into a borough, and the John McKenzie House and the William Robinson House mark the same settler past across the grid. One site reaches much further back.

The Moatfield Ossuary records an Indigenous burial place beneath the northern ground, holding a memory of the land far older than any brick that Toronto later raised over it.

What is the history of North York?

North York took shape in 1922. That was the year the township was carved out on the northern flank of the growing Toronto, long before the modern district absorbed the farms and the settler houses that still stand across it. Before the borough of 1922, these northern fields were worked as farmland.

The land north of York and Old Toronto filled slowly with settlement around homesteads such as the Gibson House and the William Robinson House, and only later did the residential borough rise across the old fields.

Where is North York?

North York is a broad district on the northern side of Toronto, spread across residential neighbourhoods reaching north from York and Old Toronto toward the edge of Scarborough and East York, within the province of Ontario.