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The Collision District. Why? Because there are so many auto repair shops in the area.

After all 48 name suggestions were presented and discussed, the campers at the Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club (Perth Outreach location) voted overwhelmingly for "P-Block".
It was great to hear the kids talking about the neighbourhood and their enthusiasm for giving the area a name. Many thanks to the campers and staff at the club for their time!

The Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club Summer Camp (Perth Outreach location) included the naming project in their program today. After a short presentation about the project, the campers divided into groups and developed name ideas. Here is the list of names they developed:
La rue de Perth
L'Avenue de Perth
Pecanino Portugal
Perth Avenue Square
Big Bannana (similar to the Big Apple)
Treesville
Toronto's Community
Peaceful Avenue
The Kids Centre
Pleasant View
Perth Block
The Community
St. Davenport Avenue
Percy Avenue
Perth Avenue
Corner Avenue
Perthsville
St. Perth Avenue
Private Avenue
Private Block
Dovercourt-Perth
Crescent Avenue
Cherry Avenue
Shedden
Sheddonia
Sheddenville
Perth Square
Kids on the Block
Sweet Perth
Hometrail
Crossways
Old Shedding
Ourtown
P-Block - because all the kids call it that
Forgotten Neighbourhood - because many people forget about the place where we live
Fuzzy Hood
Rec
The Ultimate Community

I like the names that have Rail in them for some reason and as Dupont seems to be one of the main streets in our area....why not Dupont Railpath? I know some people may not like having Dupont in the name as it was not the original streetname, but fact is, I never knew it as anything but Dupont and it is a fairly busy artery of the city - especially with the new bike lanes!!

Keeping with the train theme and some earlier suggestions, how about Trainstead? Or The Rail Commons?

For people define the neighbourhood as "close to Roncesvalles" or "East of the Junction" etc., how about a combination name "Ronction"? I believe that Jill Dempsey on CBC Radio first made the suggestion half-jokingly.

The Junctioneer news blog is featuring the latest Fuzzy Boundaries outreach initiative. On Tuesday, July 14th, the Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club Summer Camp (Perth Outreach location) is including the naming project in their program. Campers will be discussing the project, making name suggestions and voting on their favourite idea. You can checkout the Junctioneer post at http://breakingprojects.com/junctioneer/?p=4652

All of the campers' name suggestions will be featured on the Fuzzy site after the event and we will let you know which name received the most votes.

The question is once you come up with a name, how do you get residents, media and others to reconize that??? I have read and heard many times, once somethings happens in this community, we are reconize as Lansdown and bloor area. It really defeats the purpose for all this name change, if others don't know what this community is called.

Maybe the City can put the name of the community, once one is decided , right below the names of each street, like other communities have in Toronto.

FYI,An example on helping others to choose a name. I belong to the CPLC(community police liaison committee) for the 11 division for the past 8 years and we recently came up with a logo for our committee, by dividing the 11 division into four chuncks n/e/s/w. So we took things that are very visual or symbolic in each quadrants and incorperated that in the logo. For example highpark,the rails and so on. Hopefully the next meeting I can bring a copy of the logo. We break for the summer, we don't meet till september. I personally like the Junction Triangel, as we are surrounded by rails. This community has lots of history, good and bad. I know when we have friends or relatives come over, the first thing they notice is the rails that we are surrounded by, not to metion other stuff that are visual, like the water tower, wallace bridge and so forth. Jack

Carlton Park
The Tracks
Black Oak North*
Savannah North*
*(the park along the tracks from Annette to Bloor is an initiative to re-establish what was part of the Black Oak Savannah associated with High Park. Who knew. Is anyone familiar or in touch with this initiative? I would love to be involved. It needs wider sidewalks and better lighting).

Junction Central
Roncesvalles Valley
Tristead
Junction Triangle
New Amsterdam

You'll find all these names in the blog discussion. See something you like? Got a better idea? We are interested to hear your comments.

We are not situated below sea-level, there are no canals in the area and we're not overrun with tourists, but if I could name the neighbourhood after one of my favourite places, I would call it New Amsterdam. : )

From the library suggestion box, Lee-Anne MacDonald says, "It always was the Junction Triangle, let's keep it that way!"

Found this piece on Wikipedia which indicates that the south end of the triangle (our presumed boundaries) was actually a part of Brockton Village:

"In March 1812, Lot 30 in York Township, a 100 acres (40 ha) parcel of land, was granted to James Brock, the cousin of Sir Isaac Brock along with other parcels of land. This lot was a strip of land that stretched from Lot Street, today's Queen Street, north to Bloor Street, west of Dufferin Avenue. After Brock died, his widow Lucy Brock inherited his estate and she began selling the lands that Brock owned... The developed area of Brockton grew to border High Park on the west, Dufferin (then the border of Toronto) on the east, Bloor on the north and the rail-lines to the south-west by the time it was incorporated as a village in 1876. It became an incorporated town in 1881. The incorporated town only lasted three years before it was annexed by the City of Toronto in 1884."

Here is a list of all 61 names suggested so far (some are clearly intended to add some levity). Got a comment? Want to add a suggestion? Did we miss something? We welcome your thoughts.

South Junction Triangle
Junctionville
Junctiondale
Junctioncourt
West Junction Village
Junctionton
The Junc
The Junction Annex
Junctionvalles
The Triangle
St. Junctionton
The West Junctiondalecourt Village Triangle
Junction Park
Junction Village
Bloor Junction
South Junction
Bloor Dundas West Village
Dundas West Village
Perth-Royce District
Royce Junction
Junction Triangle
Shedden Village
Shedden Park
West Toronto Junction
West Toronto Annex
East Junction
Railtown
SOJU (South Junction pronounced SO-HU)
SOJUTA (stands for South Junction Triangle Area pronounced SO-HU-TA)
TRISODA (Triangle south of Davenport)
DABLOTRAX (DAvenport to the north, BLOor to the south and TRAcks on either side)
JUNCTRAX
COOLTRAX
DUNDAVENBLOOMINGTON
JUNCTIA
RAILTRAX
Railside
Rail Triangle
Railway Triangle
TRIBEDA (Triangle Below Davenport)
The Wedge
Builder Box
North-West Triangle
The Inner Corner
Innerton
Entrails Trails
Solvent Green
Falus Village
Sol Ways
Metro Links
Value Village Village
The Gore
The Railpath
Roncesvalles North
North Roncy
Parkdale Heights
Junction Summit
Junction View
Junction Central
Roncesvalles Valley
Tristead

After reading the neighbourhood boundaries article that Marcel mentions in his mapping comments http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2944, Junction Central came to mind. Would Roncesvales Valley be a stretch? Or perhaps we could meet Scott and CK halfway with Tristead.

Scott, there is no doubt that the "Wedge" is an original name. I wonder how long it would take before it became a derisive term and we were called "The Wedgie"?
I also wonder if the name "Junction Triangle" fails to create a unique identity for our neighbourhood and properly distinguish us from "The Junction." If we are going to simply be a name extension of an existing neighbourhood, why not Roncesvalles North or North Roncy? The area has more cache and has not been plagued by a steady stream of news stories about the "neighbours from hell."

I would vote for Junction Triangle.

South Junction Triangle I would not vote for as I don't think the name should be a double reference to another area.

There have been some good attempts at names but so far nothing has seemed groovy enough or respectful enough. The historical stuff like Shedden seems too far in the past; I am wondering why I am not hearing versions of "Royce-Dupont" which at least lasted until a few decades ago. Its too bad that "Chuvalo" would not win. : )

The invented names based on the Tribeca model don't' do much for me as I prefer real words connected to real places. Why do all this research and then just invent a name out of thin air?

No Villages. We already are swamped with phony villages. Lets not make it easy for Toronto Life Magazine. But a word that could take the place of village could be cool such as...

________ Precinct
________ Commons
________ stead

First Nations people used Davenport as a trail for a long long time but other than that there really is no direct Aboriginal name or connection that won't in the end wont be patronizing. I have many First Nation friends in the area and none of them thought an Aboriginal name made any sense, none could even think of what that name would be.

Railtown to me sounds noisy and polluted like a shunting yard. Its sounds like a place were your mom said to stay away from. Its true that rail has shaped us but I wonder whether it truly defines us anymore. With the way things are going with GO maybe it could be Commuter Town as most of the rail bypasses us whereas previously it feed the factories among us.

Of all the other names I have seen I like the "Wedge" as it is short and cheeky and refers to our shape but is not a reference to rail lines. A wedge is something that gets in the way and I think a wedge rejects the average and dares to be different. Wedge would certainly catch on and be original.

If we consider that the West Toronto Railpath is a new, prominent feature of our neighbourhood and that we are surrounded by rail lines on all sides, why not The Railpath as a name?

South Junction Triangle
The Triangle
Railtown
The Gore
Value Village Village

You'll find all these names in the blog discussion. See something you like? Got a better idea? We are interested to hear your comments.

Some of the original name suggestions that are coming forward are quite amazing. I met someone yesterday during the rainy 'unofficial' opening of the Railpath who suggested we call the neighbourhood "The Gore." While the word "gore" has a few meanings, several of them mentioned in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary indicate this idea is not so far off - a wedge-shaped piece of a garment; a triangular or tapering piece of an umbrella; a small strip or tract of land between larger divisions such as townships.

It's great to see people communicating, I just hope that once a name is decided by the community, we can deal with the issue's effecting this community/residents. Eg: Poverty, hungry, crime, polution, literacy, a very high, high school drop out rate and the lack of transparcey from our elected officals. Some of these issues have been ignored for years, from all 3 levels of government. A group of us have been meeting for a couple of months and will let everyone know about a breafast program for children Jr k- grade 6, free breakfast at a venue in our catchment area in the triangle. A change of name is fine as long as everyone agrees, and it seems many are involved and talking. I don't think that a name change will change the meat and potatoe of thing, the issue's that is effecting this community??? Thax Jack

In the interest of debate and humor I offer these names that we DO NOT want to end up with:

Entrails Trails

Solvent Green

Falus Village

Sol Ways

Metro Links

Value Village Village

I was thinking we're like "The Wedge" or "The Triangle"; or because of the old Lansdowne factory, perhaps "Builder Block". We're also boxed in by the various main rail routes of the city, right up in the north west corner: It could be the "North-West Triangle" or "The Inner Corner". Or even "Innerton".

Has anyone noticed on Google Maps that our area is labeled "Silverthorn"? Anyone know where that came from?

why does everything in Toronto have to be a ville, village, town, gardens, or a little(insert country)..

I think there is a great opportunity here to be creative, fun, edgy... some of my suggestions

SOJU (South Junction pronounced SO-HU)

SOJUTA (stands for South Junction Triangle Area pronounced SO-HU-TA)

TRISODA (Triangle south of Davenport)

DABLOTRAX (DAvenport to the north, BLOor to the south and TRAcks on either side)

JUNCTRAX

COOLTRAX

DUNDAVENBLOOMINGTON

JUNCTIA

RAILTRAX