Early Etobicoke

[adma]

Humber Heights? Though names are fluid--I believe it essentially operated under the Weston P.O., at least in obvious later times...

 

[the_yellow_dart]

The wikipedia article on Weston said that there used to be a part of Weston on the West side of the Humber, but it was damaged in a storm and abandoned. Not sure the source of that claim.

 

[JasonParis]

They would be referring to Raymore Drive.

Weston was always technically on the east side of the Humber, but as Adma states, many on the Etobicoke side (around Humber Heights) refer to the area as Weston too (and use it on their postage).

 

[Miss Sadie Thompson]

The Wikipedia article refers to a much earlier flood to the one that devastated Raymore Drive in 1954.

The first European settlement in the Weston area took place in the 1790s, when a saw mill was built on an old native trading path along the west side of the Humber River, named after the well-known Humber estuary in Yorkshire, England. In 1815 James Farr, a prominent local mill owner, named the growing settlement "Weston" after his birthplace, Weston, Hertfordshire. Weston initially developed along both sides of the river until a disastrous flood in 1850 destroyed the west bank settlement.[3] The former west bank settlement is now the site of the Weston Golf and Country Club.[4]

Source

 

[JasonParis]

Interesting. Didn't know that!

 

[adma]

Though the Weston G&C Club is well north of the Humber Heights/Raymore Drive zone.

I suppose it's best to think of of Humber Heights as an across-the-river unincorporated "suburb" of Weston; thus its being more or less "plotted out" at a relatively early time...