It was in the early 1820’s, after the acquisition of lands from the Mississauga Indians, that the village of Erindale became settled and started to evolve. The first person to settle in Erindale was Thomas Racey who constructed a saw mill in 1825 on the Credit River. At the same time a Scottish immigrant, Colonel Adamson, settled an estate on the south side of Dundas Street and recruited Reverend James Magrath as the rector of St. Peter’s Anglican Church. By the late 1820’s, the village of Erindale was beginning to take shape and served as a stopping place for stage coach travellers between Toronto and Hamilton. It contained not only the Exchange Hotel, but a number of stores, taverns, a sawmill, and a church and burial ground. During the 1850’s, however, Erindale suffered with the completion of the Great Western Railway and the decline of traffic along Dundas Street. It was not until the early 1900’s that the village of “Erindale” got its name. Prior to this it had been known as “Credit” and “Springfield”. In the mid 1950’s the majority of suburban development was limited to the south of Dundas Street. By the late 1950’s lands to the north of Dundas Erindale Street were beginning to develop with Erindale Woodlands, a 468 acre project to provide over 800 homes, 600 apartments, multiple dwelling units and a shopping complex. Since then the district of Erindale has developed into a well established and mature residential