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Inn on the Park was a luxury hotel which was formerly located on a hill overlooking Leslie Street and Eglinton Avenue in North York, Ontario (now Toronto). It was one of the early Toronto hotels operated by the Four Seasons Hotel chain.

In 1961, the newly founded company Four Seasons Hotels opened its first hotel, The Four Seasons Motor Hotel, on Jarvis Street in Toronto. In May 1963, the company opened The Inn on the Park on former farmland in North York for $4 million, This was the company's first hotel outside of downtown Toronto, and was more upscale than the company's earlier properties. Inn on the Park was among the new hotels constructed in Metro Toronto, along with the Canadiana Motor Inn (Kennedy Road and Highway 401), the Constellation (Dixon Road near Toronto International Airport), the Executive Motor Hotel (King Street near Bathurst) and the Valhalla Inn (along Highway 427), all of them being full service hotels in contrast to earlier suburban motels. The site was chosen for its proximity to the Don Valley Parkway, "geographically central for all of Metro Toronto" although "out in the middle of nowhere". The property services focused on the company's emphasis of resort and business travel. When seen from the air, the building resembled a Star of David. Soviet minister Alexei Kosygin's visit touched off a large rally urging the USSR to allow emigration of Jews.

A decade after the expansion, in January 1981, the second floor meeting room in the tower suffered a fire, and although the fire was mostly confined to the source, smoke billowed up the shafts into rooms. Six people died from carbon monoxide poisoning, including Canadian television producer and director Cecil "Cy" True. Some suggested that this started the property's decline. The hotel was converted to a Holiday Inn (signage replaced the Inn on the Park on the lower tower) and later by new owners Rowntree Enterprises as Toronto Don Valley Hotel. The final owners made the decision to redevelop the property. The hotel ceased operating in 2005 and the original hotel, restaurants and convention centre were demolished in 2006, the day before the Toronto city council was to have debated declaring it a heritage site. The site became a Toyota and Lexus dealership, known as "Toyota On The Park". The iconic stone wall was retained. The 1971 tower was initially being proposed for reuse as seniors condos, however these plans fell through. As of September 2014 Pro Green Demolition had begun work to bring the remaining tower down.