Erindale

Erindale is the wedge between Highway 403 on the north, Mavis Road on the east and the Credit River valley on the south and west, with Dundas Street West running through the old village. The MLS community takes in The Credit Woodlands north of Dundas and Huron Park south of it.

Three housing areas share the Erindale name. The village itself, off Dundas Street West east of the river, mixes heritage homes, ranch bungalows and split-levels from the post-war decades and a steady trickle of custom infill on winding roads without a grid. North of Dundas, The Credit Woodlands is a 1960s subdivision of bungalows and split-levels on wide streets with generous lots, centred on Springfield Public School and The Woodlands School, and it is where buyers find the most attainable detached houses in the community. South of Dundas and west of Mavis Road, Huron Park has larger 1970s two-storey homes with double garages around Huron Park Recreation Centre on Paisley Boulevard West. Townhouse complexes and a few apartment buildings line Dundas Street West and the streets near Mavis, giving renters and first-time buyers a foothold. Across the river in Sheridan, the Sheridan Centre mall at 2225 Erin Mills Parkway is slated for a mixed-use redevelopment with two 15-storey buildings of 620 units, still at the planning-application stage.

Erindale GO at 1320 Rathburn Road West, just east of the river, opened on October 27, 1981 on the Milton line and offers peak trains to Union Station, a 770-space garage finished in 2014, GO bus route 21 and MiWay's 6 Credit Woodlands, 9 Rathburn, 26 Burnhamthorpe, 38 Creditview and 126 Burnhamthorpe Express. The 1 Dundas runs 24 hours between Kipling Terminal and the University of Toronto Mississauga, with the 101 Dundas Express on the same street. The Mississauga Transitway's Erin Mills station on Highway 403 opened in 2015 for express buses. Drivers use Highway 403 at Mavis Road or Erin Mills Parkway and reach the QEW along Mississauga Road. Metrolinx's Dundas bus rapid transit is still in planning, with the Erindale valley flagged as a constraint on station placement.

Springfield Public School at 3251 The Credit Woodlands and The Woodlands School at 3225 Erindale Station Road, a combined grade 7 to 12 school founded in 1969, anchor the north side; Erindale Secondary School at 2021 Dundas Street West, founded in 1967, offers the International Baccalaureate program and co-operative education, with Homelands Senior Public School and Erin Mills Middle School as feeders. Queenston Drive, Hawthorn and Cashmere Avenue public schools serve other pockets. Catholic students attend St. Gerard at 1300 McBride Avenue, St. Jerome at 790 Paisley Boulevard West or Mary Fix at 486 Paisley Boulevard West, then St. Martin Secondary School. The University of Toronto Mississauga campus is across the river on Mississauga Road. Ask the Peel and Dufferin-Peel boards which school covers your street, since the village, The Credit Woodlands and Huron Park fall in different catchments.

Erindale Park is the community's front yard: 222 acres of river valley off Dundas Street West with picnic areas, fishing for rainbow and brown trout and chinook, coho and Atlantic salmon, canoe access and the David J. Culham Trail, which runs up the Credit toward Meadowvale. The ruins of the 1910 hydro dam that once made Lake Erindale are still visible; the powerhouse was demolished in 1977 as the park took shape. Huron Park Recreation Centre at 830 Paisley Boulevard West is the city's oldest continuously operating multi-use recreation facility, with an arena used by hockey, lacrosse and ball-hockey leagues. Erindale Community Hall at 1620 Dundas Street West hosts the Erindale Village Association's spring social and a fall festival, and Heritage Mississauga runs exhibits and tours from The Grange. Village shops line Dundas, Sheridan Centre and its bus terminal are across the river, and Credit Valley Hospital is north on Eglinton Avenue West.

Erindale suits trail runners, anglers and dog walkers who want Erindale Park and the Culham Trail at the end of the street, and families who like the 1960s and 1970s houses of The Credit Woodlands and Huron Park with schools inside the subdivision. Heritage buyers get a village with an active association and a hall from 1928. Investors and parents of students look at townhouses and apartments near the 1 Dundas bus for the ride to the University of Toronto Mississauga. Commuters get Erindale GO and Highway 403.