Alderwood is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto. It is bounded by the Etobicoke Creek to the west, the Evans Avenue to the north, Kipling Avenue to the east and the CNR railway to the south. Etobicoke Creek is one of the many creeks running through Toronto, Ontario and the Toronto Area into Lake Ontario, often characterised by their winding paths through deep ravines and distinctive shale banks. ... Kipling Avenue is a Toronto street, named for Rudyard Kipling, who may or may not have been travelling through on the road to Woodbridge, Ontario. ...

Alderwood is characterized by single family homes, many of which were constructed at the end of the second world war. Schools in the neighbourhood include Sir Adam Beck Junior School and Lanor Junior Middle School. The neighbourhood was formerly served by a high school (Alderwood Collegiate, later Father John Redmond Secondary School) but the school is vacant today. Another closed school Franklin Horner Junior Middle School is home to the Franklin Horner Community Centre.

The Alderwood Centre is a public complex that houses Sir Adam Beck Junior School, the Alderwood branch of Toronto Public Libraries, the Alderwood Action Afterschool child care centre and the Alderwood Pool, a 25-yard public pool.

The south west quadrant of the neighbourhood is zoned industrial and is home to manufacturing and warehousing businesses of various sizes. Among these is a Daimler-Chrysler casting plant. DaimlerChrysler AG (Xetra: DCX) , (NYSE: DCX), with headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany and Auburn Hills, Michigan, is a prominent automobile and truck manufacturer, formed in 1998 by the buyout of the Chrysler Corporation (USA) by Daimler-Benz (Germany). ...

Politically, Alderwood was part of the original Etobicoke township. The township subsequently became the Borough of Etobicoke and then City of Etobicoke. In 1998 the City of Etobicoke was merged with six other cities and the Metropolitan Toronto government to form an amalgamated City of Toronto. It is part of the Etobicoke-Lakeshore ridings at the provincial and federal level. Etobicoke (pronounced a-TOE-ba-coe; in SAMPA [@toUb@koU]), is the western region of Toronto, Ontario. ... Metro Council redirects here. ... Etobicoke—Lakeshore is a Canadian electoral district that covers the southern part of the Etobicoke portion of Toronto on the shore of Lake Ontario. ...

External links

• South Alderwood Residents Association (SARA)
• Demographic profile
• Historic information
• http://www.alderwoodcollegiate.org/
• http://www.alderwoodforlife.com/Dee-JayDidThisXP/