THE BRIDLE PATH

A. Ram and Swarna Dilawri, from India, paid $4.1 million for number 6 in 2006. He’s CEO of the Dilawri auto group, with 27 dealerships across the country, nine of them in Toronto. The 14,000-square-foot house, currently being gutted and updated (with a teak library replacing the old oak one), features a Zen garden outside the dining room window.

B. Hagop and Nelly Boyrazian, from Jordan and Armenia, bought number 23 in 2007 for $2.75 million, tore it down, and currently have the framework of a two-storey, mansard-roofed replacement. He is a family doctor and fundraising committee chair of the Armenian Canadian Medical Association of Ontario.

C. Atul and Nayna Kesarwani, from India, bought number 24 in 1994 and built a right-angled, barrel-entranced red-brick and precast two-storey house. He is a liposucker to the moneyed classes and head of plastic surgery at Toronto East General.

D. André and Seza Nazarian, from Iran and Egypt, have lived at number 28 since 1995. André is president of investment company Viceroy Capital and head of Magnum Integrated Technologies, a company that supplies and builds metal refineries and hydroelectric plants around the world. The couple are prominent donors to the Toronto-based Zoryan Institute’s Genocide and Human Rights University Program.

E. Gladstone Raymond Chang, from Jamaica, bought number 56 in 2005 for $4.758 million. The founder of wealth management firm CI Financial (with fee-earning assets of $102 billion), Chang is also chancellor of Ryerson, with the school of continuing education named in his philanthropic honour (he donated $5 million).

F. Steve and Rashmi Gupta, from India, bought number 174 in 1997 for $1.34 million and promptly set about building a 16,500-square-foot house modelled on the maharaja’s palace from Steve’s hometown of Patiala in the Punjab, complete with indoor waterfall and bar­oque furniture. The Guptas own Easton’s Group, franchisers of Comfort Inn, Marriott and Hilton. They also own the largest service station in the country, off the 401 in Port Hope.

PARK LANE CIRCLE

G. Navin and Sarla Chandaria, from Kenya, bought the Le Corbu­sier–influenced number 23 in 2005. Navin is CEO of Conros, a packaging materials company, and a backer of the $750,000 Wall of Peace at the Canadian Museum of Hindu Civilization.

H. Shane (a.k.a. Shahab) and Manda Baghai, from Iran, bought number 25 for $4.9 million in 2002. Shane is a builder of upscale condo developments and is behind the new St. Gabriel luxury condo development in Bayview Village.

I. Shreyas and Mina Ajmera, from India, bought number 41 for $2.2 mil­lion in 1996. Shreyas owns vegetarian food processor Seenergy Foods, as well as the patents on several novel ways to treat pulses. They’re the $5-million donors behind the ROM’s gallery of Africa, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

HIGH POINT ROAD

J. Alex and Simona Shnaider, from Russia, bought number 10 for $4.3 mil­lion in 2006 and hired Katherine Newman to make something respectable out of it. Alex, Toronto’s youngest self-made billionaire, made his fortune in Russian steel and provided Donald Trump with the Bay and Adelaide land for a condo-hotel.

K. Ayad and Nadia Shammas, from Iraq, acquired number 38 in 1984. Ayad is a commercial developer and president of Lamborghini Canada. The house is one of several in the area that have been completely masked behind foliage; in this case, mature conifers hide everything but the late model Rolls parked in front.