Lansing is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It originated as a minor settlement of a store, other services and a post office at the corner of Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue and later got consolidated with Toronto as sprawling development took place. A larger area was designated as the postal village of Lansing. The City of Toronto labels it as Lansing-Westgate for neighbourhood planning purposes with the boundaries Yonge Street to the east, Highway 401 to the south, Bathurst Street to the west and Burnett Avenue to the north. History The postal village of Lansing was from Elmwood Avenue in the north to approximately the current location of Highway 401 in the south and Bathurst Street in the west to Bayview Avenue in the east with the actual post office located at the northwest corner of Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue where a grocery store and other services were located. The postal village name was provided by Joseph Shepard's daughter Saida. The postal village of Lansing with those boundaries remained in existence until the post office at Lansing corner was closed upon the completion of a new post office to the north in Willowdale and the two villages were merged into a new postal village of Willowdale, within the Township of York. Over time, the area east of Yonge Street which was formerly part of the Lansing postal village was developed into residential suburbs and came to be considered part of Willowdale instead of Lansing. The Lansing area was developed into a residential neighbourhood of mostly single-family owned and occupied homes between 1910 and the 1950s. In the older portions nearest Yonge Street the homes are one- and two-storey pre-war houses while in the newest areas homes consist of modest one-and-a-half-storey postwar houses. Lansing is generally filled with two distinct types of households, the first being older couples, usually with adult children, living in post-war bungalows, and the second being younger wealthy families living in "rebuilds" in which wealthy families buy one or two bungalows, tear them down and build two-million-dollar houses. Opened in 1948, York Cemetery is located to the north of the neighbourhood. Several notable individuals are interred there, including the Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, and Tim Horton. Demographics According to the Canada 2006 Census: Immigrants - 44% Visible Minority - 37% Chinese - 11% Korean - 6% West Asian - 5% South Asian -