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The Story of Sylvancroft

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Sylvia said that her parents chose the name Sylvancroft to mean “wooded piece of land, because the [two-acre] property was all covered with trees and the intention was to keep as much as possible in natural wild land.” That intention has survived 100 years, even as the neighbourhood and the city around it have changed dramatically.

Westmount School

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When Westmount School first opened, it sat all alone, surrounded by marshland. Getting to it could be an ordeal, especially in wet weather, and makeshift bridges were often made to traverse the mud and wet. Even the streetcars that ran down 124th Street had to contend with submerged tracks at times and fantailed water from their wheels.

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