The history of the Hoggs Hollow neighbourhood in Toronto
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Hoggs Hollow is a beautiful and luxurious Toronto neighbourhood, but also home to one of the city s most unfortunate disasters.
The area is bounded by Yonge Street, York Mills Road, Highland Crescent and Rosedale Golf Club. It s known for its expensive homes, gorgeous landscape and the Hoggs Hollow Disaster of 1960.
Yonge Street, with the Jolly Miller Hotel on the east side, and the TTC North Yonge Railway tracks on the west side in 1936. Photo by Toronto Digital Archives.