the following link in Toronto Life puts the border of the area as far north as Rogers Rd, most people just think of the stretch of Dundas from Annette to Runnymede or Jane as being The Junction, but it does include much more. What we need is a foot bridge over the railway lands disconnecting the Dundas strip from St. Clair and the Stokyards. A footbridge along Vine or Maria would get far more usage than the one that currently links Wallace and Dundas.
link to the Toronto Life: Real Estate Guide: Junction Area
11.28.2007
Toronto Life - Real Estate Guide
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I take Toronto Life with a grain of salt. Two years ago they published an article on the Junction in their real estate guide and had different boundaries to what they published this year. There are historical boundaries (check out www.wtjhs.ca) and then there is the shopping strip of Dundas West, which is what probably most people think of as the Junction. If I walk to the bottom of my street I'm at the tracks and you can see the actual junction that gives it's name to the area and if asked I live in the Junction area, just not where Toronto Life are marketing it as existing.
That said, there are exciting changes happening in the shopping strip. We can only hope that it remains organic (pun intended!) and it doesn't end up with chain stores moving in.
thanks for the pointer Elizabeth, here is the link to the map from www.wtjhs.ca.
http://www.wtjhs.ca/jmap2.gif
Given the rise of Bloor West Village and the demise of the Stock Yards, I think it's fair to use Annette as the southern boundary and St. Clair as the northern boundary. The stockyards were so important that to this very day land north of the CP Rail line has to be included in my opinion. You just can't really trust real estate agents on a matter like this I guess.
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