Located in the old village of Swansea in West Toronto. We rent space for events, meetings and a dive http://www.swanseatownhall.ca/
95 Lavinia Avenue
Toronto, ON
M6S3H9
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Event rentals, meeting and course space rentals, party room rentals, community events and services . . . we have it all! Swansea Town Hall Community Centre is a City of Toronto Agency located in West Toronto near High Park, just south of Bloor Street and Windermere Avenue. We have meeting space for a diversity of community programs and services for seniors, adults and children. The Town Hall is also home to a number of community groups and plays host to a variety of wonderful events throughout the year. Contact us to rent space for your next event, meeting, party or course. Our building also houses a Toronto Public Health Dental Clinic and the Swansea Memorial Library
The Village of Swansea ... looking back Swansea is that green hilly area in Toronto, Ontario, Canada bounded on the west by the Humber River, on the north by Bloor Street, on the east by High Park and on the south by Lake Ontario. On the first maps used by the French explorers, this area was known by its Mississauga Indian name "Toronto", the meeting place. The Iroquois named for the major settlement in the area was Teiaiagon. Swansea is rich in indigenous history. Swansea Town Hall acknowledges the land we are on is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit. Swansea traces its modern history from the arrival of Etienne Brule, a contemporary of Samuel De Champlain, in 1615 Brule explored the southern reaches of the Humber River where it empties into Lake Ontario and established a French influence in the area, which would persist for almost the next century and a half. In 1670, Jean Baptiste Rousseau became the first permanent settler in Swansea when he established a trading post on the Swansea side of the Humber River, possibly on the site of the original French Fort.
Following the success of the British at the Plains of Abraham, gradually English traditions came to grow in Swansea. According to a popular legend, during the War of 1812 a brave and determined but foolhardy band of British soldiers lost their lives trying to cross Swansea's largest body of water during a February storm. Others say that no soldiers drowned there, but rather it was the red coated soldiers from the Fort that hunted and fished by the pond that gave it its name. Whatever the origin, that body of water has been popularly known since as Grenadier Pond.
During the latter part of the 19th Century, the area we now know as Swansea was called Windermere because, to the many immigrants from the British Isles, its hills, valleys, and seven ponds resembled the area of the Lake District, in the north of England, which went by that name. No one seems certain as to how the community became known as Swansea. Some say it was because of all the immigrants from Swansea Wales in the United Kingdom that settled here; others attribute it to the Bolt Works that carried the Swansea name. It is thought that the owner of the local Bolt Works, James Worthington, came from Swansea in Wales, so perhaps the truth lies somewhere in between.
