Walking Toronto Streets - O'Connor Drive and St Clair Avenue East

This walk starts at the west end of O'Connor (Don Valley) and follows it east to St. Clair and then over to Victoria Park. Click on any picture to see a big version! Also part of this map.

O'Connor Drive is named after Frank Patrick O’Connor, who opened the first Laura Secord Candy store in Canada on Yonge Street in 1913 and was also a member of the Canadian Senate.

Starting at the corner of Broadview Avenue and O'Connor Drive is the Sisters of St Joseph aged care building. This really is a stunning building (see the next two pictures). You can read about it in this story from 2013.

The above picture shows the 'front' of the building (photo looking north-west).

The picture below starts at the far left of the above picture and looks north.

The Sisters of St Joseph mother house is just east of the above building. See info on the sisters and their history at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters_of_St._Joseph

At the NW corner of Pape and O'Connor is the Don Mills United Church. There is a small cemetery beside it dating from 1822 (closed in 1958).

At Donlands Avenue 'The Wally' - scuzzy bar that we went to once and saw a cockroach on the bar. Didn't go back.

O'Connor is a little boring, so I made a 'hyperlapse' video of part of it - however it looks like I can't incorporate it into this blog so unless you follow me on Strava you won't be able to see it 😢. It showed the Shell and Esso stations at Coxwell and O'Connor so you can probably live without it.

Unless you can see this link?

OK, so there *is* an advantage to tiny cars 😀

There are some nice houses on the north side of O'Connor, set back quite far from the street.

O'Connor Drive Bridge over Taylor Creek. An expanded view of the house barely visible in the top left of this picture might be interesting...

...so here it is. Nicely tucked away.

Corner of O'Connor (left) and St. Clair (right). I took St. Clair for some reason - perhaps it would be too cold if I continued north-east on O'Connor.

St. Kosmas Aitolos Greek Orthodox Church. Will try and work out what the flesh-coloured shape is on the bottom right.

270° view of O'Connor and Victoria Park. Car front at far left is on O'Connor, and Vic Park is beside the sidewalk that curves to the right in the middle of the photo. No Frills food store and parking lot to the right.

And then I headed down to Victoria Park Station, so a couple of pictures of this section:

Dentonia Park par 3 golf course just north of the Victoria Park Subway Station. There is someone in the deep grass in the middle of the picture.

Many high-rises near the subway (and a school; looks like buses park on Vic Park during the day)

And finally, the Victoria Park Subway Station looking west.