Lambton Homes and Real Estate Toronto

In the early 1800s, the Humber River was a pristine salmon stream flowing through a wooded valley — a natural site for early settlers to build their grist mills, saw mills and wool mills, the first in 1806. Forty years later, a particularly fine mill was built on the river’s east bank by William Pearce Howland, one of the Fathers of Confederation. Howland’s mill, at its peak, produced 150 barrels of flour a day.

When the Governor General of Canada, John J. Lambton, Earl of Durham, visited soon after the mill’s construction, Howland named it Lambton Mill in his honour — and unwittingly bestowed the name on a neighbourhood.

Humber River Valley provides the south and west boundaries of Lambton, a neighbourhood comprising three distinct residential pockets. The oldest part of Lambton is centred around Old Dundas Street and is still referred to as Lambton Mills. North of Dundas Street is Lambton Park, while south of Dundas Street in the valley is Warren Park, or simply "the Valley".

Lambton Mill employed many of the early residents, while others worked in the market gardens in the fertile valley — some of which were still operating nearly a century later, when Warren Park was subdivided for development. When the railway came, a new source of employment was provided by the Canadian Pacific yards north of Dundas.

Today, Lambton homes offer a wide choice of age, size and style. Near Dundas Street, there are charming workman’s cottages — tiny homes built for the mill workers and their families in the mid to late 1800s.

More cottages and a few old market garden homesteads can be found in The Valley, in the Warren Park school area, but most housing stock here consists of semi-detached brick homes from the 1950s and 60s — many of them backing onto parkland, with the Humber as backdrop.

Most homes in Lambton Park, north of Dundas and south of Foxwell Avenue, were built by railroad employees in the early 1900s... while the houses in the Foxwell Avenue area, east of Lambton Golf & Country Club, were built after World War II and feature some of the prettiest brick-and-stone Tudor bungalows in the city.

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