Joy Gas Stations, Historic gas station in Toronto, Canada

Joy Gas Station is the last surviving station of the Joy Oil Company, built in 1937 at Lake Shore Boulevard West and Windermere Avenue in Toronto. It is a Château-style building with a white circular tower topped by a conical roof. In April 2007 the city moved part of the station across the street to Sir Casimir Gzowski Park and restored it at a cost of nearly $400,000.

The Joy Oil Company constructed 16 such stations across Toronto during the 1930s, yet only this one survives from that original network. The building earned protection under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act as a testament to this commercial era.

The Château style was promoted in the 1930s as a uniquely Canadian architectural form, and the Joy stations applied it to roadside commerce. The surviving station at Lake Shore Boulevard West and Windermere Avenue, built in 1937, carried the steep roofs and turret of that style. The name came from the Joy Oil Company Limited, which ran the network.

The surviving station stands at Lake Shore Boulevard West and Windermere Avenue, across from Sir Casimir Gzowski Park, where part of it was moved in April 2007. As of 2020 it was vacant and fenced off, so it is best viewed from the street and park paths rather than entered.

The city restored the surviving station about a dozen years before 2020 at a cost of nearly $400,000, yet it stayed vacant and fenced off, with plans that never panned out. Earlier, in April 2007, part of the building was moved across the street into Sir Casimir Gzowski Park. The city expects it to reopen soon.