Cliffside is a neighbourhood in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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, Canada, located along the
Scarborough Bluffs
The Scarborough Bluffs, also known as The Bluffs, is an escarpment in the Scarborough, Toronto, Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There are nine parks along the bluffs, with Bluffers Park being the only one with a beach. Formin ...
in the
district of Scarborough. Its boundaries are Kennedy Road to the west (where Kingston and Danforth Road merge), St. Clair Avenue East to the north, Brimley Road to the east, and the Bluffs on the lakeshore to the south.
History
![Cliffside](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Cliffside.JPG)
Cliffside was developed as a modern large scale suburban housing subdivision in the early 1950s, during the post–World War II period with the baby boom, subdividing of farmland. The area south of Kingston Road was previously a golf course. Some homes were built prior to this period with the development of Birch Cliff to the west.
The population consists of a large number of those with ancestral backgrounds from the British Isles:
English
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* English language
* English people
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* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
19.8%
Scottish 14.4%
Irish
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* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
11.8%, totalling 46% (source: 2001 Census).
[Statistics Canada, 2001 Census, CT's 337 336 343, http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/census/retrieve_census_2001_ct. 3.]
Education
Two
public
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school board
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The elected council determines the educational policy in a small regional are ...
s operate
elementary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...
s in Cliffside, the
secular
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Toronto District School Board
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, and the
separate Toronto Catholic District School Board
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. Neither school board operates a secondary school in the neighbourhood, with students attending TCDSB or TDSB secondary schools in adjacent neighbourhoods.
The French
first language
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public secular school board,
Conseil scolaire Viamonde
The Conseil scolaire Viamonde (CSV) is a public-secular French first language school board, and manages elementary and secondary schools in the Ontario Peninsula and the Greater Golden Horseshoe. The school board operates 41 elementary schools and ...
, and it separate counterpart,
Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir
Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir ( en, My Future Catholic School Board) is a Roman Catholic French first language public- separate school board that manages elementary and secondary schools in the Greater Golden Horseshoe. The school board o ...
also offer schooling to applicable residents of Cliffside, although they do not operate a school in the neighbourhood.
![St Augustine's Seminary](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/St_Augustine%27s_Seminary.jpg)
In addition to
primary
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Arts, entertainment, and media Music Groups and labels
* Primary (band), from Australia
* Primary (musician), hip hop musician and record producer from South Korea
* Primary Music, Israeli record label
Works
* ...
and
secondary institutions, Cliffside is also home to an
independent
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post-secondary
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Catholic seminary,
St. Augustine's Seminary
St. Augustine's Seminary is the archdiocesan seminary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, and is located by the shore of Lake Ontario in Scarborough. It is a member of the Toronto School of Theology.
History
St. Augustine's Seminary ...
.
Recreation
Cliffside is home to a number of parks, most of which are near the
waterfront and the
Scarborough Bluffs
The Scarborough Bluffs, also known as The Bluffs, is an escarpment in the Scarborough, Toronto, Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There are nine parks along the bluffs, with Bluffers Park being the only one with a beach. Formin ...
including Scarborough Crescent Park, Scarborough Heights Park, Midland Ravine Park, and the eastern portion of Bluffer's Park. Bluffers Park hosts a number of amenities including the Bluffer's Park Yacht Club.
Municipal parks in Cliffside are operated by the
Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division
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.
Transportation
Public transportation
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is provided by the
Toronto Transit Commission
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's (TTC)
bus system, with several routes operating through the neighbourhood. In addition to TTC bus routes, access to
GO Transit
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commuter rail lines,
Lakeshore East
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and
Stouffville may be accessed from
Scarborough GO station
Scarborough GO Station is a train station served by GO Transit's Lakeshore East line, located in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario
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.
Major east–west roads in Cliffside include
St. Clair Avenue, and
Kingston Road.
References
External links
Neighbourhoods in Toronto
Scarborough, Toronto
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