Raymore Drive is a mostly residential street in the Weston neighbourhood of Toronto in the Canadian province of Ontario. It runs next to the Humber River. On October 15, 1954, the area was severely affected by Hurricane Hazel. When the Humber River burst its banks and tore away a footbridge, the waters of the Humber were redirected through the neighbourhood. The flood killed 35 residents and washed away 39 percent of the street. The washed-away part of Raymore Drive was never rebuilt, as subsequent residential development in that area has been prohibited; it is now part of Raymore Park.
Raymore Drive
Not far upstream, the Lawrence Avenue bridge was washed away by the Humber River; part of it remained attached to the shore, while the rest was swept away by the river.
A new footbridge was built in 1995 to span the Humber, between Lions and Raymore Parks.
Weston is a neighbourhood and former town in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The neighbourhood is situated in the northwest of the city, south of Highway 401, east of the Humber River, north of Eglinton Avenue, and west of Jane Street. The eponymous Weston Road, just north of Lawrence Avenue is the historic core of Weston, with many small businesses and services. Weston was incorporated as a village in the 19th century and was absorbed into the Borough of York in the late 1960s. York itself was amalgamated into Toronto in 1998. Weston is one of the few former towns and villages in Toronto located in a generally suburban setting, although it is contiguous with the inner city to the southeast along Weston Road. It is also one of the few not developed as a planned satellite town, as is the case with Leaside or New Toronto.
High rises along Weston Road from the Humber River
Weston consists of Victorian-era homes east of the railway, and apartments on Weston Road.
In 1869, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn visited Weston to attend the sod turning ceremony for the construction of the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway.
The Weston Branch of the Toronto Public Library. The building was erected as a Carnegie library in 1914.