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Eglinton Avenue
Eglinton Avenue is a major east–west Arterial road, arterial thoroughfare in Toronto and Mississauga in the Canadian province of Ontario. The street begins at Ontario Highway 407, Highway 407 (but does not interchange with the tollway) at the western limits of Mississauga, as a continuation of Lower Baseline in Milton, Ontario, Milton. It traverses the midsection of both cities and ends at Kingston Road (Toronto), Kingston Road. Eglinton Avenue is the only street to cross all six former cities and boroughs of Metropolitan Toronto. The Toronto section was surveyed in the 19th century as the Fourth Concession Road (with the first being Queen Street, Toronto, Queen Street). It was historically known as Richview Sideroad in Etobicoke and Lower Baseline in Mississauga. It was also designated Highway 5A (and later Highway 109) in Scarborough, Ontario, Scarborough. History There are two sources for the naming of Eglinton Avenue. Henry Scadding in an early history of the city wrote t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dufferin Street
Dufferin Street is a major north–south street in Toronto, Vaughan and King, Ontario, Canada. It is a concession road, two concessions (4 km) west of Yonge Street. The street starts at Exhibition Place, continues north to Toronto's northern boundary at Steeles Avenue with some discontinuities and continues into Vaughan, where it is designated York Regional Road 53. The street is named for Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, who served as Governor General of Canada from 1872 to 1878. Prior to 1878, the street was labelled as Western City Limits or Sideline Road south off Bloor. In 2003 and 2007, it was voted as one of "Ontario's Worst 20 Roads" in the Ontario's Worst Roads poll organized by the Canadian Automobile Association. Route description Exhibition Place to Queen Street The southern end of Dufferin is the Dufferin Gates at the entrance to Exhibition Place, which holds the annual Canadian National Exhibition (CNE). The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kennedy Road (Toronto)
Kennedy Road is a major north-south arterial road in Toronto and Regional Municipality of York, York Region, Ontario, Canada. It has a main southern section running 43.8 km north from Highview Avenue in Toronto to Davis Drive at the boundary of Whitchurch-Stouffville and East Gwillimbury in York, and a 24.5 km northern section from Harold Road to Lake Simcoe in Georgina, Ontario, Georgina. Kennedy Road is a rare example of two major streets in the Greater Toronto Area to share names: the other List of roads in Mississauga#Kennedy Road, Kennedy List of roads in Brampton#Kennedy Road, Road being located in Regional Municipality of Peel, Peel Region. In York Region, former parts of Kennedy Road include Old Kennedy Road and Main Street Unionville. Kennedy Road is broken between York Regional Road 31, Davis Drive and Herald Road, due to the Bendor and Graves Tract, a planted forest managed by York Regional Forests. It is home to the business district of Scarborough, Ontario, Scar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warden Avenue
A warden is a custodian, defender, or guardian. Warden is often used in the sense of a watchman or guardian, as in a prison warden. It can also refer to a chief or head official, as in the Warden of the Mint. ''Warden'' is etymologically identical to ''guardian'', both terms deriving from the Old French ''garder'' which in turn is of Old High German">Germanic origin, ''wartēn'' meaning to watch or protect. It is also related to the native Anglo Saxon derived word ''ward'' Types of wardens include: * Prison warden, the chief administrative official of a prison * Warden (college), head of some university colleges and academic institutions in the United Kingdom and Australia * Warden of the Mint, historical highest-ranking officer of the Royal Mint of the United Kingdom * Warden, rank of seniority within a City of London livery company * Churchwarden, a lay officer in an Anglican or Episcopal church * Fire warden, a person designated to aid firefighters at a building or com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Park Avenue
Victoria Park Avenue is a major north-south route in eastern Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the western border of Scarborough, separating it from Old Toronto, East York, and North York. The common nickname for it is VP or Vic Park. History Victoria Park Avenue was originally a pioneer road for settlement of Scarborough. Except for its very southernmost section (south of Bracken Avenue), the road once formed the boundary for the former township, borough, and city of Scarborough with the former municipalities of East York, North York, and the former city of Toronto. Road was also called. Scarborough-York Town Line. The road took its name from the Victoria Park amusement park that operated south of Queen Street from 1878 until 1906. Route description Victoria Park Avenue begins as a two-lane residential street near Lake Ontario at Queen Street at the east end of The Beaches community. It takes a sharp jog west just before Bracken Avenue, and then continues in a straight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Valley Parkway
The Don Valley Parkway (DVP) is a municipal expressway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which connects the Gardiner Expressway in downtown Toronto with Highway 401. North of Highway 401, it continues as Highway 404. The parkway runs through the parklands of the Don River valley, after which it is named. It has a maximum speed limit of for its entire length of . It is six lanes for most of its length, with eight lanes north of York Mills Road and four lanes south of Eastern Avenue. As a municipal road, it is patrolled by the Toronto Police Service. The parkway was the second expressway to be built by Metropolitan Toronto (Metro) after the Gardiner Expressway. Planning began in 1954, the year of Metro's formation. The first section opened during 1961 and the entire route was completed to Sheppard Avenue by the end of 1966. South of Bloor Street, the parkway was constructed over existing roadways. North of Bloor Street, it was built on a new alignment through the va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DVP Shield
DVP may refer to: * '' decessit vita patris'', "died in the lifetime of his father", term used by genealogists to denote a child who pre-deceased his or her father and did not live long enough to inherit the father's title or estate * Delivery versus payment, a common form of settlement for securities * (German People's Party), a political party in the German Weimar Republic * Several other parties named German People's Party (other) * Don Valley Parkway, a municipal expressway in Toronto * Dover Priory railway station, in the United Kingdom (Network Rail station code) * Democrats and Veterans Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to: Politics *A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people. *A member of a Democratic Party: **Democratic Party (Cyprus) (DCY) **Democratic Part ..., a political party in the United Kingdom * DVP (song), a 2016 song by Canadian punk rock band PUP * NASCAR's Damaged Vehicle Policy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Mills Road
Don Mills Road is a north-south route in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, passing through the former cities of East York and North York. It begins at O'Connor Drive near ramps to the Don Valley Parkway, and ends at John Street in Markham, where its name changes to Leslie Street. North of Steeles Avenue, the road is officially named as York Regional Road 12. From south to north, it passes through the neighbourhoods of Todmorden Village, Flemingdon Park, Don Mills, Graydon Hall, Henry Farm, Parkway Forest, and Don Valley Village. Between Sheppard and Finch Avenues, Don Mills Road splits into two one-way curved boulevards known as Don Mills Road East and Don Mills Road West. This section is called The Peanut due to its shape on a topographic map. It surrounds schools, a community centre, and the Peanut Plaza. History Originally named Don Independent Road due to donations of the land by local farmers for the public improvement, the road was carrying traffic from many mills in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Street
Leslie Street is a north-south route in Toronto and York Region, Ontario, Canada. It is distinctive because of its four unconnected segments. History The road has a long history and dates back to 1850s Toronto Nursery that was run by George Leslie. Leslie was one of the first settlers in the area, at the time a community named Leslieville, located two miles east of the-then city limits of Toronto. There were two Leslies mentioned in the city directory of 1869, G. Leslie and Sons of the nursery fame and George Leslie Jr. who ran the post office and, by 1899, the telegraph station. The concession road that passed close to the nursery was later named after the Leslies', running as far north as the Grand Trunk Railway (now Canadian National Railway) tracks, with an unopened road allowance continuing north to Danforth Avenue. North of Danforth, the open concession resumed to end at the Don River Valley (near present-day O'Connor Drive), but that section is named Donland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayview Avenue
Bayview Avenue is a major north–south route in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario. North of Toronto, in Regional Municipality of York, York Region, Bayview is designated as List of numbered roads in York Region, York Regional Road 34. It is 46 km (29 mi) long. History Bayview Avenue follows the first concession line, laid east of Yonge Street. Over time, the concession road became known as East York Avenue, a reference to the division it formed between the city of Toronto and the township of East York. In 1931, James Stanley McLean constructed "Bay View" (now known as McLean House), a house overlooking the Don Valley with a view south down to Toronto Bay, on the edge of Moore Park, Toronto, Moore Park and ultimately this led to the road becoming known as Bayview Avenue. In 1959, Bayview was extended south from Moore Avenue in Leaside to Front Street (Toronto), Front Street. The northern section of this extension was routed alongside Pottery Road to Nesbitt Drive. South of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yonge Street
Yonge Street ( ') is a major arterial route in the Canadian province of Ontario connecting the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto to Lake Simcoe, a gateway to the Great Lakes#Geography, Upper Great Lakes. Ontario's first colonial administrator, John Graves Simcoe, named the street for his friend Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet, Sir George Yonge, an expert on ancient Roman roads. Once the southernmost leg of provincial Ontario Highway 11, Highway 11, linking the provincial capital with northern Ontario, Yonge Street has been referred to as "Main Street Ontario". Until 1999, the ''Guinness World Records, Guinness Book of World Records'' repeated the popular misconception that Yonge Street was long, making it the longest street in the world; this was due to a conflation of Yonge Street with the rest of Ontario Highway 11, Ontario's Highway 11. The street (including the Bradford-to-Barrie extension) is only long. Due to provincial downgrading in the 1990s, no section of Yonge Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avenue Road, Toronto
Avenue Road is a major north–south street in Toronto, Ontario. The road is a continuation of University Avenue (Toronto), University Avenue, linked to it via Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park and Queen's Park Crescent East and West to form a single through route.''Toronto Pocket Street Atlas'', MapArt Publishing, 2000 Until January 1, 1998, these roads were designated Ontario Highway 11A, Highway 11A. Route Avenue Road is the western limit of the former village of Yorkville, Toronto, Yorkville, officially beginning at Bloor Street and ending just north of Highway 401 (Ontario), Highway 401. At its southern terminus, it runs between two tall buildings – the Park Hyatt Toronto, Park Hyatt hotel (on the northwest corner of Bloor and Avenue Road) and the Renaissance Plaza condominium complex. On the northeast corner of the intersection with Bloor is the Church of the Redeemer (Toronto), Church of the Redeemer. For much of its length, the road is fairly residential, with a mix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
