History
Lansdowne Avenue was built by the Village of Parkdale and named after the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Governor-General of Canada in 1883. The section from to north of Dupont was laid out in 1888 and was named Mackenzie Avenue, after William Innes Mackenzie, the secretary of the Toronto House Building Association. The section to the south of Davenport was first named Jubilee, then Malvern, according to the 1890 Atlas of Toronto. The various sections were renamed to Lansdowne in 1910 when the area was annexed by Toronto. The section north of Davenport was built after 1890 and was built on the estate of Allan Royce. The estate became Earlscourt Park.
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