James Armstrong Park

This park was named in honor of James Armstrong.

Jean Guenet was the first grantee of Farm 7 on May 18, 1678.

James Armstrong was a Toronto investor. On October 6, 1891, he purchased Farm 7 from James Thomson with his partner J. Jeremiah Cook. They gave some land to the Grand Trunk Company on April 1, 1892 and agreed to build passenger platforms. In return, the railway company agreed to have a train station stop at Beaurepaire. This would assist Armstrong and Cook in selling their lots easier. They subdivided Thomson Point into pie-shaped lots and the rest of the farm south of the tracks became Woodland and Fieldfare Avenues. The part north of the railway, sold in 1909 to James W. Shaw, will become part of the Beaurepaire Golf Course in 1925.
The land for this park, Lot 7-25, was donated to the city by the heirs of James Armstrong in 1924. In 1931, during the Depression years, the city built its first Town Hall at 450 Lakeshore, with a $2,000 grant from the Department of Unemployment Insurance to help pay for labor.
When it was created, the municipal court sat in the Town Hall from January 1957 until 1958 when it moved to 140 Beaconsfield Blvd.
In January 1965, the city's administrative services and engineering department moved to 288 Beaconsfield Blvd, in the former Marian Hall, which became Centennial Hall in 1968. The police department remained in the old Town Hall, which also housed the firefighting equipment. The police service, which had been under the responsibility of the MUC since 1970, was moved to Kirkland around 1980. The firefighters left in 1982 when the department moved into a new building at 310 Beaurepaire Road, just west of the Public Works building.

The old Town Hall was demolished in 1982 to make way for James Armstrong Park.