About Earlscourt Park

Earlscourt Park, located along St. Clair Avenue West at Lansdowne, is one of Toronto's busiest parks. This thirty-six acre park includes:  

• children's playground
• wading pool
• fully fenced off-leash dog park
• soccer fields
• baseball diamond
• basketball court
• outdoor track
• bandshell
• plenty of green space
• 8000-square foot Community Garden operated by The Stop Community Food Centre

The adjacent Joseph J. Piccininni Community Centre features:  

• indoor soccer field
• indoor bocce courts
• twenty-five metre swimming pool
• gymnasium
• heath club
• seniors lounge

Next door, the facilities at Giovanni Caboto include:

• outdoor swimming pool
• tennis courts
• outdoor skating rink

Interested in the history of Earlscourt Park?

Early Settlers in Earlscourt - 1900-1920
http://www.torontoplaques.com/Pages_GHI/Immigrants_to_Earlscourt.html

Early Life in Earlscourt:
http://www.torontoneighbourhoods.net/neighbourhoods/west-end/earlscourt

Park is founded in 1920 on the Royce family grounds:
http://www.torontohistory.org/Pages_PQR/Royce_Family.html

1920 - Building Earlscourt Park (Toronto Archives)

Preston Villa on the grounds of Earlscourt Park, 1854-1955
http://ve.torontopubliclibrary.ca/stclairmap/villa.html

Preston Villa - home of Earlscourt Park Community Clubhouse from 1920-1955 (Toronto Public Library)

Fascinating reading and historical photos in The Toronto Archive's exhibit Playing By the Rules, Children's Leisure in Toronto, 1837-1934:
http://www.toronto.ca/archives/rules/contents.htm