It’s official… well, sort of not really official, but fun official… members of the Gerrard Woodbine Neighbourhood Association have voted on a number of choices and selected the name for our vicinity… Beach Hill.
The vote has been going on all summer, starting with a field of 21 names and paring the list down through a series of ballots. With the understanding that we can still call the neighbourhood anything that suits us, a majority vote puts us on Beach Hill.
Hey, Google Maps, get on it… Right by the lakeside, naturally, there’s The Beach. North of that there’s The Beach Triangle and right above that… Beach Hill. You just need to add that last one and you’re good.
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A mite contrived, perhaps? Upper Gerrard has no cachet I guess.
Well, the “hill” part is certainly not contrived, as my aging legs will atest. The other, “upper” names all ended in “village” which, to me, is very contrived and seriously overused.
“Upper Gerrard” might have been OK, but the “upper” part suffers from similarity to the “Upper Beaches” moniker created by contriving real estate types. Upper Gerrard also stretches well beyond the Beach Hill area, so it would have been too vague.
So I think the majority got it right… no timid “upper” qualifiers, no sentimental “villages”, just simple Beach Hill. Everyone in Toronto knows where The Beach area is. Stepping out of Lake Ontario, you head north through the Beach, the Beach Triangle and then up Beach Hill. Pretty logical.
Welcome ‘Beach Hill’. I like it!