# High Park (federal electoral district)

High Park was a federal electoral district in the west-end of the old City of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. It was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1972. It was created in 1933 and abolished in 1972, when it was redistributed into the newly created High Park—Humber Valley electoral district, which shared the same boundaries as High Park's 1966 incarnation.

## History of High Park

The federal riding was created in 1933 from the former riding of Toronto—High Park. It was initially defined to consist of ward seven of the city of Toronto — that was the former City of West Toronto Junction — and the part of ward six lying west of a line drawn from north to south along Indian Road, east along Howard Park Avenue, and south along Sunnyside Avenue to Lake Ontario. In 1952, it was redefined to include the Ellis Court Apartments.
In 1966, a major redistribution included the former village of Swansea and parts of Etobicoke for the first time, and not following just the old City of West Toronto Junction boundaries as it had previously. It was defined to consist of the part of Metropolitan Toronto bounded on the south by Lake Ontario, and on the east, north and west by a line drawn north along Parkside Drive, west along Bloor Street West, north on Pacific Avenue, east along Canadian Pacific Railway, north along Keele Street, west along Rogers Road, northwest along Weston Road, west along Black Creek, south along Jane Street, southwest along Dundas Street, southeast along Mimico Creek, east along The Queensway, and southeast along the Humber River to the shore of Lake Ontario.
The electoral district was abolished in 1972 when the name of the electoral district was changed to High Park—Humber Valley with the same borders as the 1966 redistribution.

## High Park–Humber Valley

High Park—Humber Valley was a federal electoral district in the west-end of the old Metropolitan Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. It was represented in the House of Commons from 1972 to 1979. It was created in 1972 from the High Park district, maintaining the same boundaries as the former district. It was abolished in 1976, but the next election did not occur until almost three-years later. Its only Member of Parliament was Otto Jelinek.

### History

The federal riding was created in 1972 from the former High Park electoral district. It more or less contained the same boundaries as the former High Park riding. S.C. 1972, c.4 paragraph 25 of the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act substitute the word: "HIGH PARK", with the words: "HIGH PARK–HUMBER VALLEY" as the name of the district, with the same borders as the previously named one.
It was defined to consist of the part of Metropolitan Toronto bounded on the south by Lake Ontario, and on the east, north and west by a line drawn north along Parkside Drive, west along Bloor Street West, north on Pacific Avenue, east along Canadian Pacific Railway, north along Keele Street, west along Rogers Road, northwest along Weston Road, west along Black Creek, south along Jane Street, southwest along Dundas Street, southeast along Mimico Creek, east along The Queensway, and southeast along the Humber River to the shore of Lake Ontario.
The electoral district was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed between Davenport, Etobicoke Centre, Parkdale—High Park and Etobicoke—Lakeshore ridings.

## Members of Parliament: High Park

| Parliament | Years | Member | Party |
| Riding created from Toronto—High Park |||||
| 18th | 1935–1940 | Alexander James Anderson | Conservative |
| 19th | 1940–1945 | Alexander James Anderson | National Government |
| 20th | 1945–1949 | William Alexander McMaster | Progressive Conservative |
| 21st | 1949–1953 | Pat Cameron | Liberal |
| 22nd | 1953–1957 | Pat Cameron | Liberal |
| 23rd | 1957–1958 | John Kucherepa | Progressive Conservative |
| 24th | 1958–1962 | John Kucherepa | Progressive Conservative |
| 25th | 1962–1963 | Pat Cameron | Liberal |
| 26th | 1963–1965 | Pat Cameron | Liberal |
| 27th | 1965–1968 | Pat Cameron | Liberal |
| 28th | 1968–1972 | Walter Deakon | Liberal |
| Riding dissolved into High Park—Humber Valley |||||

## Members of Parliament: High Park–Humber Valley

| Parliament | Years | Member | Party |
| Riding created from High Park |||||
| 29th | 1972–1974 | Otto Jelinek | Progressive Conservative |
| 30th | 1974–1979 | Otto Jelinek | Progressive Conservative |
| Riding dissolved into Parkdale—High Park, Davenport, Etobicoke Centre and Etobicoke—Lakeshore |||||

## Federal election results: High Park

1935 Canadian federal election :
| Candidate | Votes |
| Conservative | Alexander James Anderson | 10,949 |
| Liberal | James Chalmers McRuer | 8,357 |
| Reconstruction | Minerva Ellen Reid | 4,396 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Donat Marc LeBourdais | 3,574 |
1940 Canadian federal election :
| Candidate | Votes |
| National Government | Alexander James Anderson | 12,266 |
| Liberal | Pat Cameron | 12,061 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Carroll Langford Coburn | 1,777 |
1945 Canadian federal election :
| Candidate | Votes |
| Progressive Conservative | William Alexander McMaster | 12,992 |
| Liberal | Pat Cameron | 11,379 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | William Horace Temple | 5,612 |
1949 Canadian federal election :
| Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal | Pat Cameron | 12,216 |
| Progressive Conservative | William Alexander McMaster | 11,726 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Clarence William Pethick | 6,671 |
1953 Canadian federal election :
| Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal | Pat Cameron | 10,032 |
| Progressive Conservative | William Cedric Davidson | 8,526 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Clarence William Pethick | 3,847 |
| Labor–Progressive | Victor George Hopwood | 572 |
1957 Canadian federal election :
| Candidate | Votes |
| Progressive Conservative | John W. Kucherepa | 11,034 |
| Liberal | Pat Cameron | 8,767 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Clarence William Pethick | 3,657 |
| Social Credit | Earl du Maresq | 498 |
1958 Canadian federal election :
| Candidate | Votes |
| Progressive Conservative | John W. Kucherepa | 14,289 |
| Liberal | Allan John Patrick Cameron | 9,586 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Clarence W. Pethick | 3,256 |
| Social Credit | Earl du Maresq | 237 |
1962 Canadian federal election :
| Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal | Pat Cameron | 11,388 |
| Progressive Conservative | John W. Kucherepa | 9,089 |
| New Democratic | Tom Wilson | 4,903 |
| Social Credit | Norman Pert | 348 |
1963 Canadian federal election :
| Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal | Pat Cameron | 13,034 |
| Progressive Conservative | James H. Stephens | 7,045 |
| New Democratic | Andrew W. Mays | 4,425 |
| Communist | William Malnychuk | 420 |
| Social Credit | Watson Middleton | 203 |
1965 Canadian federal election :
| Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal | Pat Cameron | 11,171 |
| Progressive Conservative | Bill Whiteacre | 6,652 |
| New Democratic | Anne Barrett | 4,650 |
1968 Canadian federal election :
| Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal | Walter Deakon | 16,260 |
| Progressive Conservative | Win McKay | 10,743 |
| New Democratic | Don Stevenson | 8,131 |
| Independent Liberal | Ralph B. Cowan | 2,895 |
| Independent | Henry Formosa | 215 |

## Federal election results: High Park–Humber Valley

1972 Canadian federal election :
| Candidate | Votes |
| Progressive Conservative | Otto Jelinek | 18,329 |
| Liberal | Walter Deakon | 16,426 |
| New Democratic | Edward J. Chmielewski | 8,197 |
| Not affiliated | John Weir | 194 |
| Not affiliated | Kenneth Kalturnyk | 133 |
1974 Canadian federal election :
| Candidate | Votes |
| Progressive Conservative | Otto Jelinek | 17,389 |
| Liberal | Murray McBride | 17,134 |
| New Democratic | Bill Reynolds | 5,811 |
| Communist | Elizabeth Hill | 213 |
| Independent | Michael A. Blake | 148 |
| Marxist–Leninist | Jim Nugent | 73 |