Christmas Lights Displays Around Toronto - 2007 Edition

Last year I posted quite a few items about great Christmas lights displays at homes and neighbourhoods around Toronto. These included a preliminary general one, mainly about downtown locations, a second one about a great east-end home, and one about the great Nativity scene at St. Francis of Assisi Church. I also posted about the Weiss home formerly at 123 Rutledge Avenue in Newmarket, but this year the family has moved. They plan to do displays in future, but in the meantime they've loaned their lights to Fairy Lake in Newmarket.

However, I've found out about a couple of new locations. The first is the DeSario home at 165 Benjamin Boake Trail at Keele and Sheppard. It raises money for Sick Kids (over $25,000 so far!) with an enormous display that includes a huge Nativity scene and a giant dancing snowman.

Then there's the Borges home on Caledonia north of St. Clair (pictured above, thanks to Tanja of BlogTo). Their home and yard are simply engulfed in lights, many of which are arranged to spell messages like Feliz Natal. (Thanks to Tanja's BlogTO's "GlowTO" series for these last two and the links. I hope she keeps going with that this year!)

Also recommended by me, though less over-the-top, are some of the official displays made of of silver and blue LEDs around town, like the tiger across from the Christie subway entrance, the snowflake tree in Berczy Park outside the St. Lawrence Centre and the polar bears in the traffic island on Yonge just south of College/Carleton.

I'm still trying to find out more about a reported home off Brimley Road just south of Eglinton that apparently always has toy reindeer all across the lawn, a giant lit-up wreath and a crazy display of lights. I'd also welcome any further details of one near Willowbank and Underwood in Mississauga and another near Centennial Boulevard in the Bluffs neighbourhood.

If you know about these or other great sites, please add a comment to this post, or call in when I make my now-annual Christmas visit to CFRB's Christina Cherneskey Show on Sunday, December 23 from 1 to 2 p.m. She always has prizes for people who all in.