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The riding is 450 km from Ottawa and Parliament Hill, a drive of just over four hours. It is also served by the TTC and contains the St. Clair, St. Clair West, Davisville and Eglinton subway stops, and will share the forthcoming Eglinton Crosstown transit expansion.
Sitting just north of Toronto’s downtown, the riding is bordered to the north by Eglinton Avenue West, to the east by Mount Pleasant Road, to the south by the CP rail line, and to the west by Ossington Avenue, Winona Avenue, Holland Park Avenue, Rogers Road, and Dufferin Street.
The riding is predominately single-family homes, with lots of trees and parks, including Cedarvale Park and Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
The riding has a population density of over 7,000 per square kilometer.
About 34% of the riding’s population are immigrants, with some of the largest populations born in the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Tagalog, Spanish, and Portuguese are the most common non-official mother tongues in the riding.
Less than 1% of the riding’s population identify as Aboriginal.
Average individual income is one of the highest in Canada at $92,952.
An affluent riding, Toronto—St. Paul’s has a number of high-end stores catering to its residents.
It is a mid-town urban community that features many parks, ravines and natural green spaces, including the Belt Line Path – a cycling and walking trail that follows the old Belt Line Railway – which runs through the riding.
The riding is also home to the Spadina Museum, Casa Loma, George Brown College, and the Tollkeeper’s Cottage Museum. The Wychwood Barns is an historic transit facility that is now the home to a community gallery, a park, and a farmers market. Annual summer festivals like Salsa on St. Clair are among the many unique events that take place in the riding and bring families within the neighbourhood together.
Ernest Hemingway lived in an apartment (now called “The Hemingway”) on Bathurst Street during his tenure as a Toronto Star reporter in 1923 and 1924. Hemingway and his wife moved into the apartment because she was expecting their first child and she wanted it to be born in Toronto and not Paris where the Hemingways had been living previously. The family would depart for Paris again after Hemingway resigned from the Star in January 1924.
Industries that employ the most residents in the riding include finance and insurance, professional services, and health care.
The average individual income in this riding is $70,414 while the median income is $37,225.
Around 72% of the workforce has a post-secondary education of some kind and in 2011 the unemployment rate was 6.9%.
Home to the Nordheimer Ravine, this riding contains a mix of native and imported trees including “one of the finest stands of old Oaks in the city,” according to the City of Toronto parks department. The ravine is also part of the “Bring Back the Don” project which aims to restore wetlands and native wildlife in the city.
The famous Casa Loma museum, originally a home for businessman Henry Mill Pellatt, was built in the style of a Gothic Revival castle in the early 1900s. After Pellatt left the home due to financial difficulties, the 98-room residence became a luxury hotel, and then a Prohibition-era night club before being seized by the city for back taxes in 1933. During the Second World War, it was used as a secret sonar research facility and now operates as a museum and event space.
The Spadina Museum is another historic landmark in Toronto-St. Paul’s, and highlights a unique period in Toronto's history. The house was originally built in 1866, and underwent a thorough interior restoration in 2010.
The riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s lies on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation, the ancestral home of the Huron-Wendat – the Haudenosaunee, and is still home to many Indigenous peoples.
Na-Me-Res (Native Men’s Residence), an emergency shelter for Indigenous men, is located in Toronto-St. Paul’s, as is Sagatay House, a nationally-recognized transitional housing program.
Two significant streets in the riding – Vaughan Road and Davenport Road – follow the same routes as the traditional paths of First Peoples.
