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Golf in this area started in 1925 when Cecil White paid $46,500 for a piece of land in the Humber Valley, south of today’s 401, which had been owned earlier by the Weston Golf Club. An old barn on the hillside here became their clubhouse. By 1932, they changed the name to Pine Point Golf Course and replaced the old barn clubhouse with the one you see today.
​The clubhouse had a devastating fire in 1936, but was rebuilt in 1937. However, in 1947, the golf course was expropriated by the Ontario Highways Department for the planned Highway 401, which was completed through this area in 1954. The Highways Department sold 13 hectares of the property to the Township of Etobicoke in 1957. They reopened the former golf course as Rexdale’s first park, Pine Point. The former clubhouse became a community centre, with adjacent tennis courts and skating rink. Owned today by the City, this centre includes a rental banquet hall and has been the clubhouse of the Thistletown Lions’ Club since 1996.
