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The neighbourhood was first developed by Etobicoke lawyer Robert Home Smith who purchased the old King's Mill ( which was renamed the Old Mill, reopening as a high-end Inn ) and began developing land in the early 1900s.

The Kingsway emerged out of Home Smith's vision of the ideal community and was mostly inspired by the Garden City principles, which were originally conceived in parts of England and the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Indeed, Smith was a big fan of everything English, and this inclination instructed his ideas for the neighbourhood.

By the 1920s, those ideas culminated into the development, which he named Kingsway Park.