A model postwar 'planned community' built on the grounds of a mink farm
Flemingdon Park
Developed starting in the late 1950s on former farmland, Flemingdon Park was planned as a self-contained postwar community of apartment towers, and today is one of Toronto's most diverse immigrant neighbourhoods.
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Flemingdon Park was developed starting in the late 1950s on land that had previously been farmland, near the newly built planned suburb of Don Mills, as a large-scale apartment community intended to offer a self-contained mix of housing, shopping and green space along modern town-planning principles fashionable at the time. Its layout, dominated by mid- and high-rise apartment towers set among landscaped grounds rather than traditional street grids, reflected the same planning philosophy that shaped nearby Don Mills, though built at higher density and aimed more squarely at rental housing.
A landing neighbourhood
Like St. James Town, Flemingdon Park became, over subsequent decades, an important landing point for new immigrants to Toronto, offering relatively affordable apartment rents within reach of jobs across the city. It remains one of Toronto's more ethnically diverse neighbourhoods, its 1960s-era tower blocks now surrounded by newer development as the broader Don Mills and Eglinton corridor continues to intensify.
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