Postwar subdivisions plus three older lakeside villages
Etobicoke is really two housing stories. The bulk of it is postwar: the population went from 19,000 in 1941 to 54,000 in 1951 and 156,000 by 1961, and whole districts were built in single pushes, with the Kipling Heights area covering 450 acres built out between 1956 and 1958 alone. That is nailed plywood subfloor over dimensional joists, mid-century modern bungalows and split-levels. The lakeshore villages are older. Mimico’s housing runs from 1920s to 1940s bungalows plus 1950s and 1960s low-rise apartments; New Toronto saw little residential building until after the First World War and then went from 2,669 people in 1921 to 11,194 by 1951; Long Branch was a summer resort subdivided from 1910 onward and then built out through the 1950s and 1960s. The Humber Bay Shores condominium belt is modern and was never part of the historic town.