Built between 1883 and 1887 MONTEITH STREET is a block of Victorian-era townhouses facing Barbara Hall Park in the Church-Wellesley Village.

<PHOTO ABOVE – the white painted town houses on Monteith face a Loblaw’s grocery store & parking lot, ca1960’s; by Harvey Naylor, City of Toronto Archives>

<PHOTO ABOVE – these days the cleaned up red brick houses look onto Barbara Hall Park>

At one end of Monteith is the summertime patio of Church Street’s Smith Restaurant.

At the other end – the birthplace of Canadian media baron ROY THOMSON (Lord Thomson of Fleet). Thomson was born at #32 on June 5, 1894 to Herbert Thomson (a barber at the Grosvenor Hotel) and Alice Coombs. These days the house is worth well over a million dollars.

The street is under heritage protection. Garbage bins and parking are forbidden.