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David Raymont's "It Happened On St Clair"

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St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, on the northeast corner of St. Clair Avenue West and Vaughan Road has served more than one denomination. It was built in 1924 as St. Colomba's Presbyterian Church, and following the union of  Protestant denominations that year, prospered for several decades as a United Church.

As the population in the neighbourhood changed, the  congregation left the building and joined St. Matthew's United Church down the street in the 1960s. The building now serves the Roman Catholic community.


The oldest building on St Clair is likely the Heydon House, a former hotel built in 1891 on the northwest corner of St. Clair Avenue West and Old Weston Road.

It was built to replace an earlier inn that had stood on the site during the 1850s. At one time, the hotel was notorious as the location for illegal cock fights.


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