Fuzzy Boundaries: The Globe and Mail

Fuzzy boundaries no more

West-end neighbourhood seeks to define and label itself, choosing from 10 names

ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Published on Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2010 12:00AM EST
Last updated on Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2010 5:59AM EST

What's in a neighbourhood name?

A lot - especially in a city defined by hundreds of differentiated municipal pockets.

And residents of one Toronto neighbourhood feeling left out of the name game have spent more than a year trying to come up with a suitable moniker.

Now the residents behind the Fuzzy Boundaries project - so dubbed for the west-end neighbourhood's blurry demarcations - are down to 10 finalist names in a second round of voting, ending Sunday. But the mission to define this fuzzy hood has made its residents rethink just how they view where they live.

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