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33-618: In 1898, the Scarboro radial line was extended eastward to the site, and soon the area became a cottage district and then a streetcar suburb of Toronto. This forced the equestrian activities to move further afield. In 1907, the horses were thus moved to a site in Thornhill (Steeles' Corner at Steeles Avenue and Yonge Street ) called "Green Bush Lodge". In 1919, the club moved to a location in Toronto on Avenue Road , north of Eglinton Avenue . Known as

66-642: A 60-acre tract extending from Kingston Road to the lake between Midland Avenue and Bellamy Road. In 1913, the branch from Kingston Road to Gerrard and Main Streets closed due to competition from the new Gerrard line of the Toronto Civic Railways , which opened on December 18, 1912. Riders found that the Gerrard route was a more direct route to get downtown. On August 16, 1922, the City of Toronto formally acquired

99-585: A few important districts and neighbourhoods of Toronto, most notably Discovery District , East Chinatown , and Gerrard India Bazaar , Toronto's prime South Asian ethnic enclave . Gerrard is named for Samuel Gerrard (1767-1857), an Anglo-Irish businessman in Lower Canada and a personal friend of the Honourable John McGill , member of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada . Upper Gerrard

132-475: A route on the north side of Kingston Road from Queen Street to Blantyre Avenue. In early July 1893, the railway created a branch for summer service on the west side of Blantyre Avenue south to Victoria Park, a lakeside recreation area roughly at the location of today's R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant . In 1894, the railway opened a branch running from Kingston Road and Walter Street north via Lyall Avenue and Kimberley Street to Gerrard and Main Streets in

165-503: Is largely a mix of residential and small neighbourhood businesses. At Victoria Park Avenue, the name of the street reverts simply to "Gerrard Street", rather than "Gerrard Street East", for the last four blocks before it ends by merging into Clonmore Drive. This nomenclature oddity is due to the area east of Victoria Park formerly being in Scarborough, which did not label the streets entering from Toronto with an "east" designation, even after

198-601: The Bingham Loop between Bingham Avenue and Victoria Park Avenue. The Scarboro radial line ended on the east side of Victoria Park Avenue. When the TTC took over operation of the Scarboro radial line in 1927, a new radial terminal was built in two stages. As a temporary measure, the body of old TRC car 370 was used as a curb-side waiting room placed initially at north-west corner of Kingston Road and Victoria Park Avenue and later moved to

231-552: The Don River , Gerrard Street East passes through Toronto's East Chinatown which is centred on Gerrard between Broadview Avenue and Carlaw Avenue. Continuing east, Gerrard Street East between Greenwood Avenue and Coxwell Avenue is home to one of the largest South Asian marketplaces in North America. At the intersection of Gerrard and Broadview Avenue are two bilingual street signs with the words "Gerrard St E / 芝蘭東街". Upper Gerrard

264-727: The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario operate the line as the Hydro-Electric Railways : Toronto and York Division. After 1927, the radial service was operated by the Toronto Transportation Commission but with city streetcar service being extended to the Birchmount Loop . Beyond Birchmount, radial service ceased by 1936. This article is more about the Scarboro radial than about the company that originally created it. On August 18, 1892

297-625: The Toronto streetcar route 506 Carlton , between Parliament Street and Coxwell Avenue. The route then travels along Coxwell Avenue and continues along Upper Gerrard until Main Street, where it turns and terminates at Main Street station . The remainder of Gerrard Street, east of Main Street, is served by the TTC bus route 135 Gerrard, which travels between Main Street station and Warden station . A 430 feet (130 m) three-hinged ribbed deck steel arch bridge spans

330-641: The Upper Beaches district within the City of Toronto , Ontario and to the neighbouring Township of Scarborough. Except for two branches, the line ran as a radial along Kingston Road . In 1904, the TSERLPC became the Scarboro Division of the Toronto and York Radial Railway , a subsidiary of the Toronto Railway Company . In 1922, the radial line was acquired by the City of Toronto which contracted

363-462: The West Hill station opened in 1906, it featured a waiting room, restaurant, barbershop, reading room and a public telephone. Customers could park their horses here while riding the radial car into Toronto, an early park and ride facility. In 1922, the TTC took over the radial route between Queen Street and Victoria Park and converted it into a double-track streetcar line. The streetcar line ended at

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396-486: The 1930s, and it remains an exclusive private golf club today. Its street address is 1355 Kingston Road . 43°40′51″N 79°16′19″W  /  43.680918°N 79.272022°W  / 43.680918; -79.272022 Toronto and Scarboro%27 Electric Railway, Light and Power Company Toronto and Scarboro' Electric Railway, Light and Power Company was established in August 1892 to provide street railway service to

429-507: The 1960s. A few buildings from the former neighbourhood still exists, but the residents and remaining business no longer hold ties to the past. People who lived or are associated to it included famous writers, artists: As is typical in Toronto, the street is divided into East and West addresses at Yonge Street . Atypically, the West portion of the street is very short — only four blocks long. Its western terminus at University Avenue lies within

462-632: The Eglinton Hunt Club, a polo arena, clubhouse and other facilities were erected. The 1930s saw the club run into financial difficulties, however. In 1939, with the outbreak of the Second World War, the large site was purchased by the federal government and turned into a secret Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) research facility, the No. 1 Clinical Investigation Unit (CIU). Noted scientists Frederick Banting and Wilbur R. Franks were employed there, and it

495-600: The Scarboro line's Warden Carhouse that the Hydro-Electric Railways had transferred from the Guelph Radial Railway. These Preston -built "Prairie" type cars were in storage pending a conversion of the line to standard gauge, a conversion that did not happen. On January 12, 1927, the Toronto Transportation Commission started operating the T&;YRR lines under contract including the Scarboro line. On January 25,

528-413: The T&YRR lines. The plan was that the city portions of the T&YRR radial lines would be incorporated into the TTC, and the portions outside the city would be managed by Ontario Hydro as the Hydro-Electric Railways : Toronto and York Division. Thus, the Toronto streetcar system replaced the radial line between Queen Street and Victoria Park Avenue , making the latter street the western terminal of

561-584: The TTC connected Scarboro radial tracks to the city system at the Bingham Loop . On that date, it also closed the Warden Carhouse (just east of Warden Avenue), and transferred operations to the Russell Carhouse under the TTC's Radial Department. On July 4, 1927, the five standard-gauge cars that had been stored at the Warden Carhouse were put into service on the Scarboro line after regauging and conversion to one-man operation. On November 18, 1928,

594-468: The TTC extended the Kingston Road streetcar line with double-track east to a new Birchmount Loop , where radial passengers could now transfer to the city streetcars. At the loop, there was a station-like structure containing a waiting room. After the 1929 season, Scarborough Heights Park permanently closed. On July 13, 1930, radial service east of Scarborough Post Office (just beyond Eglinton Avenue)

627-422: The Toronto and Scarboro' Electric Railway, Light and Power Company was incorporated to provide electric streetcar service along Kingston Road , and to produce and sell electricity to customers in the vicinity. Henry Pellatt (of Casa Loma fame) was the chairman of the board of directors. On July 1, 1893, the Toronto and Scarboro' Electric Railway, Light and Power Company started electric, radial operations with

660-473: The creation of Metropolitan Toronto , which used unified cardinal directions for streets elsewhere, including farther north in Scarborough itself for streets continuing from East York and North York . (Gerrard and Queen were the only streets labelled with an "east" designation that entered directly into Scarborough from Toronto; both only continue for a few blocks into Scarborough before ending.) The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) serves Lower Gerrard with

693-634: The eastbound track was ready. Gerrard Street (Toronto) Gerrard Street is a street in Toronto , Ontario , Canada. It consists of two separate parts, historically referred to as Lower Gerrard and Upper Gerrard. The former stretches between University Avenue and Coxwell Avenue for 6 km, across Old Toronto . The latter portion starts 300 m north of Lower Gerrard's eastern terminus and runs between Coxwell Avenue and Clonmore Drive, between Victoria Park Avenue and Warden Avenue , in Scarborough for another 4 km. Gerrard Street travels through

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726-495: The heart of Downtown Toronto 's "Hospital Row", which consists of Toronto General Hospital , Mount Sinai Hospital , Princess Margaret Cancer Centre , Toronto Rehab, and The Hospital for Sick Children . The bulk of Gerrard Street is actually known as Gerrard Street East. Toronto Metropolitan University is located on Gerrard Street East just east of Yonge Street. Further to the east, at Parliament Street, Gerrard Street separates Cabbagetown from Regent Park . After crossing over

759-488: The north-east corner. Then, the TTC built a new off-street terminal with a waiting room behind the north-east corner. Just before reaching Victoria Park, the radial turned north into an alley then west into another alley behind buildings facing Kingston Road. The TTC then connected this terminal track to the Bingham Loop so that radial cars could pass through it to be stored at Russell Carhouse . Radial cars used Bingham Loop only for carhouse access; radial passengers had to use

792-510: The radial line. On November 1, 1922, Hydro-Electric Railways took over operation of the T&YRR lines outside of the city limits. Hydro transferred new cars from its Guelph Radial Railway operation, and constructed a new terminus at Kingston Road and Victoria Park Avenue. On December 2, 1922, the TTC opened the Bingham Loop . City streetcars now replaced the radial cars along Kingston Road from Queen Street to Victoria Park Avenue. By 1927, there were five standard-gauge cars stored in

825-445: The radial terminal on the east side of Victoria Park Avenue. When radial cars entered service from Russell Carhouse, they had to go to the north side of Bingham Loop, then reverse into the radial terminal across the street. When the streetcar extension to Birchmount Avenue was being built along Kingston Road to the new Birchmount Loop , the westbound track was built first, and the radial cars used that track in both directions until

858-434: The railway ripped up its track on Blantyre Avenue and relaid them along Kingston Road to Toronto Hunt Club near Warden Avenue . Winter service was provided to Warden Avenue. Normally, two cars operated every 30 minutes, one to East York and the other to Warden Avenue. On July 12, 1901, service was expanded 1.7 kilometres (1.1 mi) along Kingston Road from Warden Avenue to Half Way House at Midland Avenue. The expansion

891-598: The then Village of East York. On March 6, 1895, the Toronto Railway Company acquired controlling interest in the Toronto and Scarboro' Electric Railway, Light and Power Company. The Scarboro line's carhouse at Walter Avenue was closed, and operations were moved to the TRC's King Carhouse at King Street East and St. Lawrence Street. During the winters of 1895 and 1896, the Blantyre branch did not operate and all radial cars proceeded to East York at Gerrard and Main streets. In 1897,

924-813: Was at the CIU that Franks invented the anti gravity g-suit . The site was also home to RCAF No. 1 Initial Training School, a unit of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan . After the war, the site became the RCAF Staff School, and it remained an officer training facility of the Canadian Forces until it closed in 1994. By 1995, the Government of Canada transferred the property to the Metropolitan Separate School Board (which

957-401: Was originally a separate street called "Lake View Avenue", which was in the town of East Toronto . The name was changed after East Toronto was annexed by Toronto in 1908. A short stretch of Gerrard Street West from Bay Street to LaPlante Avenue was referred to as Gerrard Village, a bohemian - Greenwich Village like area emerged in late 19th Century to 1920s and disappeared towards the end of

990-449: Was reopened, and operation of the Scarboro line became completely separate from the TRC system. On January 23, 1905, service reached Mason's near Bellamy Road . On December 24, 1905, service reached Scarborough Post Office at Markham Road . On August 31, 1906, service reached West Hill (near today's Fairwood Crescent ) where a station was built. In 1912, the railway opened Scarborough Heights Park (also called Scarborough Park),

1023-459: Was replaced by Gray Coach bus service. On June 25, 1936, Scarboro radial service ended being replaced by buses on the next day. On July 1, 1954, the TTC terminated streetcar service to the Birchmount Loop replacing streetcar service east of Victoria Park Avenue by buses. The introduction of a new fare zone system and a reorganization of the suburban bus network led to the termination of streetcar service east of Victoria Park Avenue. When

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1056-506: Was then renamed to the Toronto Catholic District School Board ) to replace De La Salle College Secondary School , which had been privatized in 1994. Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School was built on the site in 1998. The area surrounding the old Eglinton Hunt Club is now an established residential neighbourhood. The Toronto Hunt Club's original site in Scarborough was turned into a nine-hole golf course during

1089-421: Was triggered by threats by township to cancel the railway's franchise. The railway was reluctant to expand as Scarborough then was very rural with only a small population. Sunday service started on September 22, 1901. On August 1, 1904, the Toronto and Scarboro' Electric Railway, Light and Power Company was merged into the Toronto and York Radial Railway becoming its Scarboro Division. The Walter Avenue carhouse

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