Weston Road is both a contour street and a north–south street in western Toronto and western York Region in Ontario, Canada. The road is named for the former Village of Weston, which was located near Weston Road and Lawrence Avenue West, in the present-day neighbourhood of Weston.
Weston Road
Storefronts along Weston Road in the Mount Dennis neighbourhood
Looking north on Weston Road from north of present-day Rogers Road, 1925
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.