Ward 04 — Parkdale-High Park

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The race & the 2022 baseline

• Office: Councillor, Ward 04 - Parkdale-High Park
• Seats: 1
• Incumbent: Gord Perks — running in 2026: no — open seat: yes

2022 result: Gord Perks won by 3.9 percentage points over the runner-up — razor-tight — about as close as a Toronto council race gets. Source: City of Toronto official 2022 election results, as_of 2026-08-16.

This ward’s own 2022 turnout was 38.45% (32,223 of 83,800 eligible electors cast a ballot) — compared to a citywide 2022 turnout of 29.7% that year. Source: City of Toronto, City Clerk’s Office, “Elections – Voter Statistics” (2022 dataset), cross-checked against the Clerk’s own 2022 Municipal Election Report.

Who’s running here in 2026 (9)

Every candidate filed in this ward as of 2026-08-16, alphabetical by surname, identical fields for every name. Bios are synthesized only from each candidate’s own published campaign material and registry facts — never from news coverage, opposition material, or this project’s own judgment (see Receipts below).

Geography & boundaries

• General location: Toronto's west end, within the Toronto and East York Community Council district. [Source: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/data-research-maps/neighbourhoods-communities/ward-profiles/ward-4-parkdale-high-park/, accessed 2026-08-14]
• Boundaries (plain-language): bounded on the west by the Humber River; on the east by Metrolinx rail lines, Dufferin Street, and Lake Shore Boulevard; the north boundary follows a Canadian Pacific Railway track just south of St. Clair Avenue; the south boundary is Lake Ontario. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_4_Parkdale%E2%80%94High_Park, accessed 2026-08-14]
• Boundaries (full legal description, Elections Ontario, reproduced on Wikipedia): commencing at the intersection of the Humber River with the Canadian Pacific Railway; thence easterly along said railway to the GO Transit Railway situated easterly of Old Weston Road; thence southeasterly along said railway to Queen Street West; thence westerly along said street to Dufferin Street; thence southerly along said street to the F.G. Gardiner Expressway; thence westerly along said expressway to the southerly production of Spencer Avenue; thence southerly along said production to the southerly limit of the city; thence generally westerly along said limit to the southeasterly production of the Humber River; thence generally northwesterly along said production and the Humber River to the point of commencement. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_4_Parkdale%E2%80%94High_Park, accessed 2026-08-14]
• Named neighbourhoods commonly associated with the ward, per cited sources (not an asserted formal neighbourhood-to-ward mapping — see plan §3): Swansea, High Park North, The Junction/Junction Area, Runnymede–Bloor West Village, Lambton Baby Point, Roncesvalles, and Parkdale (including South Parkdale). [Source: https://thelocal.to/ward-4-parkdale-high-park/, accessed 2026-08-14 — this citation covers only the neutral "About the Ward" neighbourhood-list sentence on that page; nothing else on that page (candidate profiles, election commentary) is used anywhere in this brief.] Old Mill is separately confirmed as a Ward 4 neighbourhood. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Mill,_Toronto, accessed 2026-08-14]
• Ward map (official): [Source: https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/944f-CityPlanning-Map-Ward-4.pdf, accessed 2026-08-14]

Civic texture — what’s live here

• Multi-tenant ("rooming") housing — a long-running Parkdale-specific policy thread. A May 2017 study by the Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust ("No Room for Unkept Promises") found 198 rooming houses in Parkdale with an estimated 2,715 dwelling rooms — more than double the number of units Toronto Community Housing owned in the same study boundaries — and documented 28 rooming houses lost to conversion/upscaling in the prior decade, displacing an estimated 347 people, with a further 59 (housing an estimated 818 people) assessed at the time as at imminent risk. [Source: https://pnlt.ca/learn/research/parkdale-rooming-house-study, accessed 2026-08-14] Separately, the City helped fund the purchase of a Parkdale rooming house into community-land-trust ownership under a 99-year affordability agreement. [Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/city-helps-purchase-rooming-house-amid-destructive-housing-boom-in-parkdale-1.5118708, accessed 2026-08-14] The City's first citywide licensing framework for multi-tenant houses — standardizing rules that previously varied by former-municipality zoning — was adopted by Council in December 2022 and took effect March 31, 2024; it applies uniformly across all 25 wards, this one included. [Source: https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/housing-shelter/rental-housing-rights-information/multi-tenant-rooming-houses/new-framework-for-multi-tenant-rooming-houses/, accessed 2026-08-14]
• Encampments. Citywide, the number of encampments on City property fell from 283 in March 2025 to 84 as of March 15, 2026, per city data reported by CBC; this is a citywide figure, not ward-specific. [Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/number-of-encampments-decreased-past-year-homelessness-9.7182350, accessed 2026-08-14] Within this ward, a makeshift shelter at Marilyn Bell Park (at the south end of Parkdale, on the ward's Lake Ontario shoreline) was cleared by City staff in summer 2024. [Source: https://thelocal.to/toronto-encampment-homeless-park/, accessed 2026-08-14] Encampment Support Network Parkdale (ESN Parkdale), a community-organized outreach group, states it conducts ongoing outreach in encampments, shelter hotels, and social housing in the area. [Source: https://www.esnparkdale.com/, accessed 2026-08-14] Reported neutrally per source; no named individual is characterized here.
• Roncesvalles and Dundas West Built Form Study. The City is (per its own study page, last modified September 27, 2024) undertaking a built-form review of Roncesvalles Avenue (Queen Street West to Boustead Avenue) and Dundas Street West (Boustead Avenue to Sorauren Avenue), initiated following a November 3, 2015 request from Toronto and East York Community Council, in response to development pressure in the area; stated outcomes include built-form/urban-design guidelines, a heritage-resource assessment, potential streetscape improvements, and possible Zoning/Official Plan amendments. No more recent (2025-2026) public status update for this specific study was found — flagged, not assumed complete or lapsed. [Source: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/planning-studies-initiatives/roncesvalles-and-dundas-west-study/overview-roncesvalles-and-dundas-west-study/, accessed 2026-08-14]
• Development beside High Park subway station. City Council accepted a settlement offer for a 19-storey mixed-use, mostly-residential tower at 1930-1938 Bloor Street West, directly across from High Park and adjacent to High Park Station — 144 total units (132 new condominium units plus 12 replacement rental units), an increase from an earlier 17-storey proposal for the same site. [Source: https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2025/02/settlement-offer-increases-tower-19-storeys-across-high-park.57975, accessed 2026-08-14]

Transit & development

• TTC Line 2 (Bloor–Danforth) subway. Keele, High Park, Runnymede, Jane, and Old Mill stations all fall within Ward 4 (Old Mill and the neighbourhoods Jane station serves — Bloor West Village, Swansea, Runnymede, Old Mill, Baby Point — are Ward 4 neighbourhoods per §2 above). [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_(TTC), accessed 2026-08-14; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Mill,_Toronto, accessed 2026-08-14] Dundas West station sits close to the ward's northeastern boundary (the GO/CP rail corridor named in the legal description, §2); this brief does not assert which side of that boundary the station itself falls on — not point-in-polygon verified (see §8).
• Streetcars. The 501 Queen and 504 King routes both run through the ward's southern neighbourhoods (Parkdale, Roncesvalles). [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501_Queen, accessed 2026-08-14] The multi-year King-Queen-Queensway-Roncesvalles (KQQR) intersection reconfiguration (City construction notices on file from 2020-2021) reopened this five-way intersection to streetcars; per the Roncesvalles Village BIA, the 504 King streetcar returned to Roncesvalles Avenue on May 7 after a year-long diversion once KQQR reopened (the BIA post does not state the year; the City's own Ward 4 construction-notice record for this project ends in an October 2021 update, consistent with a 2022 reopening — flagged as inferred, not confirmed). [Source: https://roncesvallesvillage.ca/504-streetcar/, accessed 2026-08-14] A separate, newer project: starting November 1, 2026, 504/304 King streetcars are scheduled to be consolidated onto one branch (Dundas West Station to Broadview Station), with westbound service diverting via Queen Street West between Spadina Avenue and Roncesvalles Avenue, and 504C/304C replacement buses running Sunnyside Loop to the Distillery District, for watermain and track-renewal work on King Street; the diversion is expected to continue into early summer 2027. [Source: https://stevemunro.ca/2026/07/06/king-west-construction-plans-2026-27/, accessed 2026-08-14]
• Active City capital works within the ward (per the City's own Ward 4 construction-notice page, page itself dated "modified July 20, 2026"). Selected current/recent items: local road resurfacing under the Council-approved 2026 Capital Works Program (notice dated January 21, 2026); Brock Avenue Bridge (under Metrolinx rail) rehabilitation, with an overnight special-repairs notice dated as recently as January 7, 2026; Dupont Street Bridge (under Metrolinx rail) rehabilitation, with a Construction Update #3 dated June 30, 2026; West Toronto Rail Path Bridge (over Bloor Street West) rehabilitation, notice dated January 9, 2026 — this is the ward's active multi-use cycling/walking trail infrastructure; Sorauren Avenue road resurfacing, watermain replacement, and sidewalk work, with update notices running from May 2025 through July 7, 2026; and Sunnyside Sewage Pumping Station construction. [Source: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/data-research-maps/neighbourhoods-communities/ward-profiles/ward-4-parkdale-high-park/, accessed 2026-08-14]
• GO Transit. No GO Transit rail station was confirmed to sit within Ward 4's boundaries. (Kipling GO Station, initially checked as a candidate, is confirmed located in the Islington–City Centre West area of former Etobicoke, outside this ward.) Stated as a gap, not assumed either way — see §8.
• Development pattern, beyond §3's two items: no comprehensive current-year (2026) development-application tracker specific to this ward was pulled; §3's High Park Station tower and the Roncesvalles/Dundas West Built Form Study are the only current development-context items surfaced with a citable, dated source.

Local commons

• Toronto Public Library branches commonly associated with the ward: Parkdale branch (Queen Street West at Cowan Avenue) [Source: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/parkdale/, accessed 2026-08-14]; High Park branch (Roncesvalles Avenue at Wright Avenue, near Queen Street West) [Source: https://tpl.ca/locations/hp/, accessed 2026-08-14]; Swansea Memorial branch (Lavinia Avenue, south of Deforest Road, within Swansea Town Hall) [Source: https://tpl.ca/locations/sw/, accessed 2026-08-14]; Runnymede branch (2178 Bloor Street West at Glendonwynne Road) [Source: https://tpl.ca/locations/rn/, accessed 2026-08-14].
• Major parks. High Park — the ward's signature and largest park; its Grenadier Pond wetland complex was declared a Provincially Significant Wetland in 2022. [Source: https://highparknature.org/article/grenadier-pond-in-high-park/, accessed 2026-08-14] The City's own knowledge-base page on capital construction in parks/recreation facilities notes an ongoing High Park Off-Leash Area Improvement Project (Phase 2 commenced August 2025, City of Toronto with the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority). [Source: https://www.toronto.ca/home/311-toronto-at-your-service/find-service-information/article/?kb=kA06g000001cvYtCAI, accessed 2026-08-14] Sorauren Park, in Roncesvalles, is a reclaimed former TTC bus-garage brownfield site that opened in 1995, with sports fields, a fieldhouse used for community gatherings, and a weekly farmers' market operated by the West-End Food Co-op. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorauren_Park, accessed 2026-08-14] Sunnyside Park/Beach and Marilyn Bell Park form part of the ward's Lake Ontario shoreline parkland.
• Community/recreation centres named in connection with the ward by this research's search: Parkdale Community Recreation Centre, Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre, and Holy Family Community Centre. This is a light research pass, not the formal point-in-polygon dataset join the plan (§6) names as future work; individual city facility pages for these three centres returned only dynamically-loaded (JavaScript) content on fetch, so their specific addresses/URLs are not independently confirmed here — named plainly as a gap, not silently dropped (see §8).

Toronto Public Library branches and Parks, Forestry & Recreation community/recreation centres located inside this ward’s boundary, joined by geographic coordinates (see Receipts) — complete citywide datasets for both layers, every ward covered.

Public libraries (6)

• Annette Street — 145 Annette Street, Toronto, On, M6P 1P3
• Daniel G. Hill (Formely Jane/Dundas) — 620 Jane Street, Toronto, On, M6S 4A6
• High Park — 228 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, On, M6R 2L7
• Parkdale — 1303 Queen Street West, Toronto, On, M6K 1L6
• Runnymede — 2178 Bloor Street West, Toronto, On, M6S 1M8
• Swansea Memorial — 95 Lavinia Avenue, Toronto, On, M6S 3H9

Community & recreation centres (9)

• Annette Community Recreation Centre — 333 Annette St
• Holy Family Community Centre — 141 Close Ave
• Humbercrest Public School — 14 St Mark'S Rd
• Keele Community Centre — 181 Glenlake Ave
• Lambton Arena — 4100 Dundas St E
• Masaryk - Cowan Community Recreation Centre — 220 Cowan Ave
• Parkdale Community Recreation Centre — 75 Lansdowne Ave
• Runnymede Collegiate Institute — 569 Jane St
• Swansea Community Recreation Centre — 15 Waller Ave

Parks aren’t listed here: parks joining is partial citywide — not shown rather than shown unevenly. The citywide parks join has fetched and joined 400 of the dataset’s 1,511 Park-type rows so far; that 400-row sample isn’t evenly distributed enough per ward to publish per-ward park lists or counts responsibly yet.

Local media landscape

• West End Phoenix — nonprofit community newspaper covering west-end Toronto neighbourhoods. [Source: https://www.westendphoenix.com/, accessed 2026-08-14]
• TorontoToday.ca maintains a dedicated "Roncesvalles & Parkdale" neighbourhood news aggregation page. [Source: https://www.torontotoday.ca/neighbourhoods/roncesvalles-parkdale, accessed 2026-08-14]
• The Local (thelocal.to), a nonprofit Toronto newsroom, maintains a dedicated Ward 4 page as part of its ward-by-ward civic/election coverage. [Source: https://thelocal.to/ward-4-parkdale-high-park/, accessed 2026-08-14 — for future research lanes' use; this brief does not draw on that page's candidate-specific content, per §2's citation note.]
• Business Improvement Area public pages, useful as future-research contact points: Parkdale Village BIA (Queen Street West, Roncesvalles Avenue to Dufferin Street) [Source: https://parkdalevillagebia.com/, accessed 2026-08-14]; Roncesvalles Village BIA [Source: https://roncesvallesvillage.ca/, accessed 2026-08-14]; The Junction BIA (Dundas Street West, Keele Street to Quebec Avenue) [Source: https://torontojunction.ca/about, accessed 2026-08-14]; Bloor West Village BIA, organized in 1970 as Canada's first mandatory business-improvement district [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloor_West_Village, accessed 2026-08-14].
• This pass searched specifically for outlets named "Parkdale Villager" and "Roncy Local" and did not find identifiable, currently-active publications under those names — noted honestly as not-found rather than assumed nonexistent (see §8).

Networks & local commons

As of August 17, 2026, this project's public organization registry maps 132 organizations directly to Ward 4 (Parkdale-High Park) — corrected the same day from the 3 this brief had stated since mid-August, when a registry-wide bug was found: the public ward pages had been reading only the single canonical `"Ward 4 (Parkdale-High Park)"` tag spelling and silently missing every alternate format the registry's own geography join (`org_placements.csv`) already resolves (bare `"Ward 4"`, a bare riding name, and more). The 3 organizations named below remain this ward's own individually-verified, hand-researched anchors — that research is untouched by this fix. The 129 more behind today's 132 total are principally bulk City/CRA register rows (early-years childcare, K-12 parent councils) captured registry-wide rather than ward-by-ward, carrying the weaker `seed-web-verified` status rather than a direct confirmation; 27 of the 132 total carry `verified-live` status, including:

• Parkdale Residents Association (PRA) — a residents' association. https://parkdale.to/
• High Park Tenants' Association (HPTA) — a tenants' association. https://hpta.ca/

These are a starting point, not a finished map. This brief's Local Commons section above already names Ward 4's civic-infrastructure anchors; those are the next nodes the sweep will connect these organizations to as it goes deeper, and city-wide organization mapping is underway ward by ward to reach the rest of this ward's faith communities, resident and tenant associations, cultural groups, service organizations, and the dozens of other categories this project tracks.

If you lead, work with, or simply know of an organization rooted in this ward, this project's tribes directory at https://unitetolove.ca/tribes/directory.html is where to add it or correct what's already there — every addition is checked against a public source before it's published.

The ward in numbers (2021 Census)

Source: City of Toronto Ward Profiles (25-Ward Model), Statistics Canada 2021 Census custom tabulations, City Planning Division, published December 2023. Household income reflects the 2020 reference year.

See the citywide summary table for the same census columns, all 25 wards, one page.

What else is on your ballot

Every Toronto voter marks three races on October 26, 2026: this ward’s councillor (above), the citywide mayor, and one school trustee.

• Mayor (citywide — the same race for every ward) — 42 candidates registered as of 2026-08-14, identical treatment: the mayoral race card.
• School trustee — one seat, for whichever of Toronto’s four school boards matches your school-support designation. Trustee-district boundaries do not in general line up with the 25 council wards; here is what this project has established for THIS ward, tiered by how confidently each is sourced:
  • Conseil scolaire Viamonde (French public) — Toronto-Ouest (Secteur 2, Annexe OUEST) (race card) — confirmed exact from the board’s own official regulatory determination document (Détermination et répartition des conseillers scolaires, Conseil scolaire Viamonde, March 2026, Annexe C).
  • Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) — Ward 4 (race card) — confirmed from the board’s own published ward page.
  • CSC MonAvenir (French Catholic) — this ward falls in one of MonAvenir’s two Toronto régions (Toronto-Est or Toronto-Ouest); the board has not published a ward-level boundary document, so which région applies here is not resolved — a region-level statement, not a guess at which one.
  • TDSB — not established for this ward: no reliable source pairs it to a specific TDSB ward (a named gap, not a guess).
  39 TDSB and 21 TCDSB trustee candidates are registered citywide as of 2026-08-14. Whatever the tiers above show, MyVote is the authoritative resolver for your own address — check it before you vote: MyVote.

This ward’s trustee-crosswalk precision note: TDSB: NOT ESTABLISHED - no reliable source found pairing this ward. TCDSB confirmed exact (Ward4 dual-named). Viamonde exact. MonAvenir not disambiguated.

Get involved — from thirty seconds to a year

Everything on this page is published so that anyone who lives here can use it: there is no membership, no gate and nothing to belong to. If you want to do something with it, the doors below start at thirty seconds and stop wherever you like — every one of them is optional, every one of them is free to copy or fork, and none of them asks who you vote for.

• The ladder — what you can do today: thirty seconds, an hour, an evening, a week, a season, a year. Every rung a real door, every rung optional.
• The Harvest — add three lines to one public record: a vision for 2030, a complaint about what is broken, or a neighbour worth naming.
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• The mobilization framework — for anyone who already leads a room and wants that room, and every room like it, to act together. Free, forkable, evidence-based, nothing to join.
• The plan — one year, all-out — what this city could do in a single year, month by month, with every number labelled as a target rather than a promise.
• The conversation kits — free, open kits for running your own conversation about Toronto’s future, at a kitchen table or in a hall.
• Mutual aid — how neighbours already help each other across Toronto, what a block circle is, and how to start one where you live.
• The letters — written to the people this city keeps writing about instead of to. Read one; pass it to someone it is about.

This is a neighbours’ project rather than a campaign or an organization: it publishes tools, data and evidence, and leaves every decision to the person reading. Nothing here endorses a candidate or a party, and nothing here needs our permission to be used.

What this page doesn’t cover yet

This ward’s research brief names these additional gaps, plainly, rather than guessing over them:

• No GO Transit rail station was confirmed to fall within Ward 4's boundaries; the nearest candidate checked (Kipling GO) was ruled out as being in a different former-municipality area, not confirmed as present.
• Dundas West subway station's precise inclusion within (vs. just outside) Ward 4's polygon was not verified against the ward boundary GeoJSON — the station sits close to the boundary described in §2 and is flagged rather than asserted either way.
• Community recreation centre addresses (Parkdale CRC, Masaryk-Cowan CRC, Holy Family CC) are named by a general search result but individual City facility pages returned only dynamically-loaded placeholder content on direct fetch — specific addresses/URLs not independently confirmed.
• "Parkdale Villager" and "Roncy Local," named as example outlets in the instructions for this ward's research, were not found as identifiable, currently active publications; they may not exist under those names, may have ceased publishing, or may be indexed under different branding — not confirmed either way, not assumed absent from reality.
• A comprehensive, current (2026) ward-wide development-application tracker beyond the two items in §3 (High Park Station tower; Roncesvalles/Dundas West Built Form Study) was not pulled — would need the City's Application Information Centre or a fresh UrbanToronto ward-level report, not attempted here.
• The exact year of the 504 King streetcar's return to Roncesvalles Avenue (§4) is inferred from adjacent evidence, not stated directly by the cited source — flagged as inferred, not confirmed.
• This pass's WebSearch tool calls were exhausted partway through research (session-wide call budget, shared across concurrent parallel ward lanes, not a per-ward allocation) — remaining research after that point used direct web_fetch of specific known URLs rather than further WebSearch queries. This is a tool-budget constraint, not an internet outage; no retry-and-wait cycle was needed or triggered, and no fact below was guessed or filled from memory to work around it.

• A full address-to-trustee-district crosswalk is not complete for every board (school board trustee races do not share the 25-ward boundary map): for this ward, TDSB carries not established and TCDSB is resolved to one exact TCDSB ward; CSC MonAvenir is resolved only to a region (Toronto-Est or Toronto-Ouest), never a ward, for every ward citywide. Conseil scolaire Viamonde is the one board fully resolved, exact, for every ward. See the tiered breakdown and this ward’s precision note in “What else is on your ballot” above.
• Libraries and community/recreation centres are now geospatially joined to this ward’s boundary (see “What’s live here, by the numbers” under Local commons above — complete citywide datasets for both layers). Parks joining is partial citywide; not shown rather than shown unevenly (400 of 1,511 City-classified park-type rows fetched and joined so far).

Receipts — where every figure on this page comes from

• Council race and 2022 baseline: this project’s Toronto elections registry (race ON-toronto-council-w04), as_of 2026-08-16.
• Filed 2026 candidates: the same registry, 9 rows for this race, as_of 2026-08-16 — re-pulled from the City Clerk’s candidate feed and refreshed after nominations close 2026-08-21.
• Candidate bios: synthesized only from each candidate’s own published campaign material (their website, their own social accounts, their own platform document) and registry facts already on file — never from news coverage, opposition material, or inference beyond what the candidate has themself published. A candidate with no captured public material is stated plainly, never guessed over. As of 2026-08-14.
• 2021 Census figures: City of Toronto Ward Profiles (25-Ward Model), Statistics Canada 2021 Census custom tabulations, prepared by Strategic Initiatives, Policy & Analysis, City Planning Division, City of Toronto, December 2023 (`2023-wardprofiles-2011-2021-censusdata_rev0719.xlsx`, sheet "2021 One Variable"). Household income figures reflect the 2020 reference year used by the 2021 Census.
• Land area: City of Toronto Ward Profiles geographic-areas file, published December 2023 (`2023-WardProfiles-GeographicAreas.xlsx`).
• Geography, civic texture, transit/development, local commons, local media: this ward’s research brief, researched 2026-08-14 — full source list below.
• Dataset-wide registrant figures: the 2026-08-14 Toronto figures pull, from the City of Toronto Clerk’s official candidate feeds.
• This ward’s own 2022 turnout: City of Toronto, City Clerk’s Office, “Elections – Voter Statistics” (2022 dataset), cross-checked against the Clerk’s own 2022 Municipal Election Report. (per-ward figures joined 2026-08-15).
• Libraries and community/recreation centres: City of Toronto Open Data — Toronto Public Library branch list and the Parks, Forestry & Recreation “parks-and-recreation-facilities” dataset, joined to the 25-ward boundary layer by coordinates, 2026-08-15 (both layers complete citywide).
• School-board trustee crosswalk: Conseil scolaire Viamonde’s own official regulatory determination document (exact, all 25 wards); Toronto Catholic District School Board’s own published ward pages (exact where cited, one-of-two where noted unresolved); TDSB local news reporting (not yet verified against an official board document); CSC MonAvenir’s own election page (region-level only) — built 2026-08-15, see this ward’s precision note above.

This ward’s research-brief sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_4_Parkdale%E2%80%94High_Park — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/data-research-maps/neighbourhoods-communities/ward-profiles/ward-4-parkdale-high-park/ — accessed 2026-08-14 (page dated "modified July 20, 2026")
• https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/944f-CityPlanning-Map-Ward-4.pdf — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://thelocal.to/ward-4-parkdale-high-park/ — accessed 2026-08-14 (used only for the neutral "About the Ward" neighbourhood-list sentence and as a named local-media outlet; no candidate content from this page used anywhere in this brief)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Mill,_Toronto — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://pnlt.ca/learn/research/parkdale-rooming-house-study — accessed 2026-08-14 (study dated May 2017, flagged as historical context, not current-year)
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/city-helps-purchase-rooming-house-amid-destructive-housing-boom-in-parkdale-1.5118708 — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/housing-shelter/rental-housing-rights-information/multi-tenant-rooming-houses/new-framework-for-multi-tenant-rooming-houses/ — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/number-of-encampments-decreased-past-year-homelessness-9.7182350 — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://thelocal.to/toronto-encampment-homeless-park/ — accessed 2026-08-14 (Marilyn Bell Park fact only; no named individual's story used)
• https://www.esnparkdale.com/ — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/planning-studies-initiatives/roncesvalles-and-dundas-west-study/overview-roncesvalles-and-dundas-west-study/ — accessed 2026-08-14 (page dated "modified September 27, 2024")
• https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2025/02/settlement-offer-increases-tower-19-storeys-across-high-park.57975 — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_(TTC) — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501_Queen — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://roncesvallesvillage.ca/504-streetcar/ — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://stevemunro.ca/2026/07/06/king-west-construction-plans-2026-27/ — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://highparknature.org/article/grenadier-pond-in-high-park/ — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://www.toronto.ca/home/311-toronto-at-your-service/find-service-information/article/?kb=kA06g000001cvYtCAI — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorauren_Park — accessed 2026-08-14 (park-facility facts only; a historical true-crime memorial detail on that page, unrelated to civic texture and involving a named private individual, is deliberately not used anywhere in this brief, per the dignity rules)
• https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/parkdale/ — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://tpl.ca/locations/hp/ — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://tpl.ca/locations/sw/ — accessed 2026-08-14
• https://tpl.ca/locations/rn/ — accessed 2026-08-14
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