Editing Toronto Islands (section)

===Community===
[[File:Toronto islands house 2009.JPG|thumb|A local residence at the Toronto Islands. Approximately 300 homes are located on the Islands.]]
A community of about 300 homes is located on the Toronto Islands, concentrated at the eastern end of the island chain on Ward's Island and Algonquin Island. Under the terms of the ''Toronto Islands Residential Community Stewardship Act'' there are strict rules under provincial law governing the buying and selling of these homes.<ref name="titpmd"/><ref name="elaw"/>

There are two daycare centres, one school and one church on the islands. The Toronto Island Public School, located at Gibraltar Point, operates a day program for island residents, residents of the Toronto waterfront and other students that can apply for enrollment, up to grade 6. There is also a residential natural science program for visiting grade 5 and 6 students from the mainland, and a pre-school nursery. The Waterfront Montessori Children's Centre is a non-profit, parent-run co-operative pre-school on Algonquin Island. [[St. Andrew by-the-Lake Anglican Church]] is located on Centre Island, and serves the islands' residents and visitors.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://torontoislandschool.com/ | title = Toronto Island Public School | publisher = Toronto Island Public School | access-date = March 28, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.gibraltarpointdaycare.com/ | title = Gibraltar Point Day Nursery | publisher = Gibraltar Point Day Nursery | access-date = March 28, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ccma.ca/page.aspx?page=506 | title = Waterfront Montessori Daycare | publisher = Canadian Council of Montessori Administrators | access-date = March 28, 2008 | archive-date = December 19, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131219020329/http://www.ccma.ca/page.aspx?page=506 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.torontoisland.org/Home/StAndrewbytheLakeChurch/StAndrewByTheLakeHome/tabid/157/Default.aspx | title = St. Andrew-by-the-Lake Anglican Church | publisher = Toronto Island Community | access-date = March 28, 2008 | archive-date = July 9, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180709011158/http://torontoisland.org/Home/StAndrewbytheLakeChurch/StAndrewByTheLakeHome/tabid/157/Default.aspx | url-status = dead }}</ref> The semi-Gothic/Medieval/Stick Style building was built in 1884 and moved later to its current location.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=St. Andrew by-the-Lake Anglican Church - Toronto Island |url=http://www.standrewbythelake.com/history.html |title= History - St. Andrew by-the-Lake Anglican Church - Toronto Island |access-date=July 11, 2017}}</ref>

The Ward's Island residential community encompasses {{convert|12|acres|0|abbr=on}} of the entire {{convert|820|acre|adj=on}} Toronto Island park. There are approximately 150 residences, most of which are occupied on a yearly basis and a centrally located Ward's Island Association club house which was built 1937–8. The layout of the streets remains as it has been since 1915 and the streets are named sequentially First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth Streets, as well as Bayview, Willow, Channel, Lenore and Lakeshore Avenues and Withrow Street.<ref>"WARD'S ISLAND A COMMUNITY WORTH SAVING" Thesis by Alison Suki Suzanne Katherine Diamond, University of Pennsylvania, 1994</ref>

Artscape Gibraltar Point occupies buildings previously used by the Toronto Island Public School, and comprises more than 15 artist work studios occupied by a mix of painters, ceramists, sculptors, musicians, theatre companies, and a recording studio.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.torontoartscape.on.ca/places-spaces/artscape-gibraltar-point | title = Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts | publisher = Artscape | access-date = May 2, 2010 | archive-date = October 26, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111026060739/http://www.torontoartscape.on.ca/places-spaces/artscape-gibraltar-point | url-status = dead }}</ref>