Playter Estates

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Playter Estates
Neighbourhood
Province		Ontario
City	Toronto

Playter Estates is an area in the east end of

The neighbourhood is historically Greek, but is increasingly popular among artists and business professionals. The advent of Taste of the Danforth, a weekend long celebration of Danforth Avenue cuisine and culture, has made the area far more popular in recent years.

Although the increasing home prices in the community cater to the

In a 2015 article in Toronto Life, Playter Estates was named Toronto's third-best neighbourhood to live in (based on several criteria, weighted by the magazine writers themselves).^[1]

Playter family

The story, related in some histories, that George Henry Playter stole documents from Washington's headquarters, during the retreat from the Battle of Long Island, is entirely fictional, as is the claim that he was the grandson of Sir Lyonel Playters, 6th Baronet of Sotterley. His admittance, approved by General Howe, into the Loyalist "Guides and Pioneers" regiment" was in response to his rebuilding the draw of the bridge across the Delaware, for the British, after it had been destroyed by Washington's troops during the retreat from New York, an act for which he was attained by the Continental Congress; nothing to do with stealing documents.^[2] And his supposed father, Lyonel Playter son of Lyonel 6th Baronot of Sotterley, died 15 years before George was born.

He served as Colonel of the York militia; according to his son Ely's diary, George was captured at Drumsnab in 1813 by American troops looking for munitions, provincial archives and militia officers, but was quickly released. He died in 1822, and was buried on his estate. In 1896 his, and his family's, remains were exhumed and reburied in an unmarked grave in St. James Cemetery. George had at least three daughters (Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary) and five sons (John, James, Ely, Watson and George), and is remembered today mainly as the progenitor of the family that gave its name to the Playter Estates neighbourhood.

Ely was an MPP. His son John married Sarah Ellerbeck, for whom Ellerbeck Street is named. John's grandson John Lea Playter built the farmhouse at 28 Playter Crescent, the lands surrounding which were subdivided by 1912 to form the Playter Estates. Jackman Avenue is named for John Lea Playter's wife Mary Jackman. George Playter Jr. ran the first stage coach line between Newmarket and York along Yonge Street.

References

External links

• "Playter Estates-Danforth neighbourhood profile". City of Toronto. Retrieved 2009-05-21.