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"On a commanding site overlooking the city and with a glimpse of the blue waters of the lake, stands Christ Church Deer Park, a pretty suburban parish with many earnest workers. The gore is filled with fine trees that in the summer hide all of the church from the south, save the little belfry giving notice of the building beneath. The property is surrounded by a picket fence and the entrance to the church is through a quaint little porch." From Robertson’s Landmarks of Toronto John Ross Robertson described the new Christ Church as having "a commanding site overlooking the city, with a glimpse of the blue water of the lake" and being a "pretty suburban parish with many earnest workers". In 1872 a rectory was built on Heath Street West, and a schoolhouse was built north of the church in 1881. The original boundaries of the parish were Cottingham Street on the south, Eglinton Avenue on the north, Dufferin street on the west and the Don River on the east. Lying as it did along almost the entire northern boundary of the City of Toronto, it had many challenges. Missions were established from time to time as new settlements sprang up. A mission on Birch Street later united with a mission on Davenport Road to become the Parish of the Church of the Redeemer, a new mission in Leaside became St. Cuthbert's parish, and one at Fairbanks became the Parish of St. Hilda.
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