Roncesvalles, Toronto — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Roncesvalles?

Two memorials stand out. The Katyn Memorial and the Statue of Lesya Ukrainka are the non-religious monuments on the record here, while St. Casimir's Church and St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church stand among the named churches of the neighbourhood. Epiphany and St. Mark, Parkdale makes a third.

Colborne Lodge and the High Park Zoo lie across the boundary in High Park itself, and The Boulevard Club sits at the Lake Ontario end of Roncesvalles.

What is the history of Roncesvalles?

Howard Park was the earlier name. Most of the ground called Roncesvalles lay within the villages of Parkdale and Brockton before Toronto annexed it in the 1880s, and the record puts the founding of the neighbourhood at 1890. The street came to carry the name.

Roncesvalles Avenue runs the spine from King and Queen Streets to Dundas Street West, and the shorthand Roncesvalles Village, or Roncy Village, followed the avenue rather than any older village boundary.

Where is Roncesvalles?

Roncesvalles lies east of High Park and north of Lake Ontario, with Bloor Street West above it and the Lansdowne Avenue rail corridor down its eastern side.