Leaside-Bennington

About Leaside-Bennington

Leaside-Bennington is the gold standard for family living in midtown Toronto. Originally developed as a planned garden community in the 1920s by the Canada Wire and Cable Company, Leaside was once a separate town before being amalgamated into the City of Toronto. That independent heritage lives on in the neighbourhood's strong sense of identity, with the Bayview Avenue shopping strip serving as its de facto main street. Bayview between Eglinton and Millwood is lined with family-friendly restaurants, boutiques, specialty food shops, and the kind of independently owned stores that make a neighbourhood feel like a village. The residential streets are uniformly attractive, with well-maintained brick homes on treed lots and a sense of community pride visible in every front garden. Trace Manes Park, Howard Talbot Park, and the Leaside Memorial Community Gardens provide recreation, while the East Don Parklands offer ravine walks just minutes away. The opening of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will add rapid transit to an already well-connected neighbourhood.