Thistletown Regional Centre of Children and Adolescents - started as The Hospital for Sick Children Thistletown Branch in 1927 Albion West Plaza Parks Albion Gardens Park Beaumonde Heights Park Kipling Heights Park Rowntree Mills Park - named for Joseph Rowntree, a 19th century settler who established the "Greenholme Mills" on the Humber River, including a grist mill built in 1848 in Etobicoke. Churches Our Saviour Lutheran Church (1957) Thistletown Baptist Church Fellowship (2012 merger of Albion Gardens and Pine Ridge) Presbyterian Church St Andrews Roman Catholic Church Schools The original school in the district was Thistletown Public School which opened in 1874. It was a one room school house built on the east side of Islington Av., just south of Albion Rd. before moving eastward to Village Green in 1901. A new building was erected in 1947 and the school was renamed to Thistletown Middle School before closing in 1985 by the Etobicoke Board of Education. Today, the school now operates as a multi-service community centre. Today, five elementary schools operate in the neighbourhood: Braeburn Junior School St Andrews Catholic Elementary School St John Vianney Catholic Elementary School Beaumonde Heights Junior Middle School École élémentaire catholique Saint-Noël-Chabanel The Toronto District School Board is the only school board to operate a secondary school in the area, Thistletown Collegiate Institute. References Etobicoke Neighbourhoods in Toronto Ethnic enclaves in Ontario