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50-419: In the south, Weston Road begins at St. Clair Avenue opposite the north end of the southern leg of Keele Street . The southernmost 55 metres of the street north of St. Clair, where the roadway diverted to the west off its straight baseline, was formerly a part of Keele, which officially breaks here and is cut off from its short mid-section. Weston Road formerly began at the diversion, but this stretch of Keele St

100-1056: A jog was eliminated in the 1990s. It lies just east of the linking segment where it continues south as Signet Drive (built as a southerly extension of the offset York Region section), and ends at a T-intersection with Weston Road two blocks north of Steeles. Thirteen bus routes serve Weston Road: 36F Finch West, 41 Keele, 59 Maple Leaf, 71 Runnymede, 73CD Royal York, 84A Sheppard West, 89 Weston, 161 Rogers Rd, 165 Weston Rd North, 171 Mount Dennis, 341 Keele Blue Night, 941 Keele Express and 989 Weston Express. The 89 Weston serves Weston Road from Albion Road and Walsh Avenue to St. Clair Avenue West , then via Keele Street to Keele subway station . The 165 Weston Road North serves Weston Road from Steeles Avenue West to Albion Road and Walsh Avenue, then via east on Walsh Avenue and Wilson Avenue to Wilson station , then east to York Mills station . The 41 Keele, 341 Keele Blue Night and 941 Keele Express only serve Weston Road travelling southbound, serving Old Weston Road and Rogers Road travelling northbound. Unlike

150-589: A joke, Edwin and Albert made street signs using their names and posted them at Yonge and St. Clair. The St. Clair sign survived for a while and the name became adopted as the name for the 3rd Concession Road. The first known printed use of the St. Clair name was in an 1878 publication, Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of York . In 1913, a Roman Catholic church was built in the Earlscourt District, and named after

200-442: A mostly light industrial stretch of north Etobicoke. West of Highway 427 , Rexdale Boulevard becomes Derry Road and enters the city of Mississauga . Derry Road is also signed as Peel Regional Road 5 , an east–west route that travels the entire length of the city of Mississauga and Peel Region as a whole. Derry Road is the northern boundary of Toronto Pearson International Airport . The intersection of Derry Road and Airport Road

250-591: A similar building style. Although the area has been historically referenced as predominantly Italian, it is no longer populated by any one majority. Many new homebuyers looking to purchase in the City are choosing St. Clair West for its relatively modest home prices, the pride of ownership apparent throughout its neighbourhoods, and the new St. Clair Ave. TTC streetcar right-of-way. St. Clair Avenue holds Toronto's biggest celebration of salsa Latino culture. The two-day street festival attracts an estimate of 250,000–500,000 people,

300-474: Is a four-lane principal arterial road through residential areas, except for the northern section which is mostly industrial. The speed limit south of Finch Avenue is 50 km/h (30 mph), which increases to 60 km/h (35 mph) between Finch and Steeles. North of the Toronto city limits at Steeles Avenue, Weston Road enters York Region, where it is designated as York Regional Road 56 . It passes through

350-643: Is a major east-west street in Toronto , Ontario , Canada. It was laid out in the late 18th century by the British as a concession road (the Third Concession), 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of Bloor Street and 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north of Queen Street . St. Clair Avenue has two sections. The western section extends from Moore Park in the east to Scarlett Road in the west, a distance of approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi). An eastern section picks up on

400-469: Is a ramp with two traffic lights for Albion Road/Walsh Avenue and none for Weston Road . Albion Road northwest of Highway 27 was formerly Highway 50 , but later became Peel Regional Road 50 and Simcoe County Road 50 due to downloading from the province. The northern end of Highway 50 is Ontario Highway 89 by the town of New Tecumseth in Simcoe County. Albion Road is served by TTC route 73C and

450-468: Is a spur of Victoria Park Avenue , and the original roadway through the Taylor-Massey Creek ravine. The road is named for Clem Dawes, a farmer on Lot 2 Concession 2 of York Township and later hotel owner. The street between Victoria Park Avenue and Pharmacy Avenue is an east–west road running just south of St. Clair Avenue . There is a 50-metre (160 ft) gap between the east–west Dawes Road and

500-466: Is served by Toronto Transit Commission routes 503, 12, 102/902, 86/986 and 905. Rexdale Boulevard is a short east–west roadway in Rexdale , a neighbourhood in Toronto , and begins as a spur road off Islington Avenue just north of Highway 401 . This spur originally began in the former village of Weston as a road northwest to what would later become Brampton , Ontario. The current road passes through

550-650: Is served by TTC bus route 37A, a branch of 37 Islington. Chaplin Crescent is a diagonal street located in Toronto , Ontario . The street runs almost entirely just north and east of the Kay Gardner Beltline Park , a former railway meant to serve the community of Forest Hill (as well as Fairbank and Briar Hill–Belgravia to the west), and primarily runs parallel to it. The street has several parks by it: Castlefield Parkette, Forest Hill Memorial Park, Robert Bateman Parkette, Larratt Parkette, and Oriole Park. At

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600-529: Is served by TTC bus route 90. There is a southbound streetcar track on the road south of St. Clair Avenue to allow 512 St. Clair streetcars to use the depots located closer to the lakeshore by the rest of the TTC streetcar system as the 512 St. Clair streetcar route is otherwise disconnected from the rest of the system. Bathurst Street from Vaughan Road to St. Clair Avenue only has a northbound streetcar track. Fairbank station on Line 5 Eglinton , which will open in

650-451: Is the intersection with Yonge Street, which has experienced heavy nodal development since the opening of the St. Clair subway station there in 1954. The buildings there include the world headquarters of George Weston Foods Inc. St. Clair now intersects with two more subway stations, Warden Station in the east and St. Clair West Station near Bathurst Street, as well as Scarborough GO Station . The Toronto Transit Commission decided to upgrade

700-483: Is the northernmost municipality in York Region . The route is served by TTC route 113 Danforth from Danforth Avenue to Kennedy Road and the 16 McCowan from Eglinton Avenue to Lawrence Avenue, just before it becomes McCowan Road. Kingston Road is the southernmost major road along the eastern portion of Toronto, specifically in the district of Scarborough . Until 1997, it formed a portion of Highway 2 . The name of

750-507: Is well known for the high population of Portuguese , Latin American and Italian people. St. Clair is usually where the Italian and Portuguese soccer fans celebrate after a game their nations won. Over the years, the Italian and Portuguese people throughout Toronto have established a rivalry in soccer against each other. One of the largest celebrations on St. Clair Avenue was when Italy won

800-487: The 1982 FIFA World Cup , which involved an estimated 300,000 fans, shutting the street down for nearly 20 blocks between Caledonia and Oakwood. Corso Italia, Toronto's other Italian enclave, is found on St. Clair Avenue West, between Westmount Avenue (just east of Dufferin Street ) and Lansdowne Avenue . St. Clair West is also used as an umbrella term to refer to all neighbourhoods from Old Weston Road to Bathurst as they share

850-463: The 1850s, the roads were assumed by the township and its municipalities. Additionally, there are two bypassed "Old Weston Roads"; the first being located in the environs of the southern terminus. It begins as a minor stub running north from intersection of Dundas , Dupont and Annette Streets, and breaks at the Canadian Pacific tracks, which were bridged until the 1970s. It resumes just south of

900-452: The City of Toronto. To stimulate development along what was then largely a rural road, the city's Toronto Civic Railways built a streetcar line from Yonge Street to Caledonia Road by 1912. This included the construction of a bridge across Nordheimer Ravine (after an earth berm collapsed) as well as what was termed the Lauder Fill : the burying of the western branch of Garrison Creek ,

950-477: The Line 1 Yonge-University subway. The eastern section of St. Clair Avenue East is serviced by the 8 Broadview and 102 Markham Road bus routes. St. Clair Avenue takes its name from Augustine St. Clare , a character from the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin . The Grainger family, who rented a farm near the present-day intersection of Avenue Road and St. Clair, had viewed a stage production of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Two members of

1000-438: The St. Clair streetcar to a dedicated right-of-way to increase service reliability when the streetcar tracks were approaching the end of their lifespan in the early 2000s. In October 2006, construction started on the right-of-way in the centre of St. Clair. St. Clair Avenue was one of the few streets in Toronto wide enough to accommodate a dedicated right-of-way without significantly reducing the width of traffic lanes. The project

1050-461: The actual Saint Clare . St. Clare's Church is at 1118 St. Clair Avenue West, on the north side of the street, east of Dufferin. The parish opened the St. Clare's Catholic School, an elementary school, next door in 1910. The first settlement on St. Clair was at Yonge Street, where the Heath family bought land in 1837. A thriving neighbourhood, Deer Park , was established by the 1850s. The next settlement

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1100-607: The aforementioned 89 Weston and 165 Weston Rd North, the 989 Weston Express serves all of Weston Road in Toronto, from Keele station to Steeles Avenue. York Region Transit route 165 Weston serves Weston Road north of Steeles Avenue, running from Pioneer Village station to the Major Mackenzie West Terminal , which is located to the north of Canada's Wonderland . The road is mentioned in Toronto native Drake 's 2016 song "Weston Road Flows", and his 2018 song " God's Plan ". St. Clair Avenue St. Clair Avenue

1150-415: The city grid, often referred to as contour roads or diagonal roads . They are listed by type of road, then alphabetically. Albion Road was created as a private road for French teacher Jean du Petit Pont de la Haye (1799–1872) to his estate in the area (the plank road was built in 1846 by Weston Plank Road Company from Musson's Bridge over Humber River to Bolton ). Originally called Claireville , it

1200-505: The city. Trethewey Airfield, later renamed De Lesseps Field , hosted de Havilland 's facilities and the Royal Canadian Air Force before the land was sold for development in 1941. The boroughs of North York and York later assumed control of the road. The street is served by TTC route 32C Eglinton West (a branch of 32 Eglinton West), which was once part of the former route 83 until 1972 and will be served by TTC route 158 in

1250-458: The congestion of Bloor Street . By 1952, St. Clair was developed enough that it no longer served a provincial role; a new Toronto Bypass road under construction between Weston and Highway 11 would instead serve to divert highway traffic off local surface streets. Much of the development from this era survives. St. Clair West is one of many streets in Toronto which has experienced little development since an initial building boom. The exception

1300-504: The diagonal Dawes Road along Victoria Park Avenue. Dawes Road is served by TTC route 23 Dawes. Trethewey Drive , formerly named Holmstead Drive, was a private rural road on the land of mining magnate and owner of the Trethewey Model Farm William Griffith Trethewey (1865–1926). In 1910, the property became the site of Toronto's first airplane flight, with French ace Count Jacques de Lesseps circling

1350-516: The family, Albert and Edwin, adopted names of two characters as their middle names as each boy had no given middle name. Edwin added Norton to his name, and Albert chose St. Clare, although he used the incorrect spelling of St. Clair, as it was used in the theatre program. ( Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair River use the same spelling, though they are named for the actual Saint Clare of Assisi , on whose feast day they were encountered by Sieur de La Salle .) As

1400-452: The far side of the Don Valley at Taylor Creek Park, extending for 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) to Kingston Road . Like all streets in Toronto which cross Yonge Street , St. Clair is divided into separate East and West sections, each with its own street numbers beginning at Yonge Street. Unlike most other concession-road streets in Toronto, St. Clair does not extend west into Etobicoke , due to

1450-488: The final section to be routed into the city's stormwater system. The growth of the inner suburbs of Leaside, Rosedale and Moore Park prompted the city of Toronto to approach the operators of Mount Pleasant Cemetery in 1912 with the goal of extending the short Mount Pleasant Road south through the cemetery to connect with St. Clair. Though the operators initially refused, they later accepted the city's offer of $ 100,000 ($ 2,095,000, adjusted for inflation) in 1915. The muddy road

1500-583: The fourth quarter of 2024 after the first phase of Line 5 Eglinton is opened for revenue service. Vaughan Road is named after the Township (later City) of Vaughan , which in turn was named after Benjamin Vaughan , a British commissioner whose role was to smooth negotiations between Britain and the newly independent United States during the drafting of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 . The street's original alignment led to

1550-777: The majority of them being from Latinos living in Toronto and all over Ontario come together to dance, eat, shop and celebrate the culture of Latin America. The festival is always held in July on the week, which it has been traditionally recognized as Latino Week in Toronto, in honour of the festival. "Jane St. Clair", in the Barenaked Ladies ' song " Jane ", is named for the intersection of Jane Street and St. Clair Avenue. [REDACTED] Media related to St. Clair Avenue at Wikimedia Commons Albion Road (Toronto) The following lists roads in Toronto , Ontario, Canada, that do not follow

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1600-414: The namesake township until the street was shortened. The neighbourhood of Oakwood–Vaughan (later officially renamed Oakwood Village for the main commercial strip on Oakwood Avenue at Rogers Road), as well as the former high school Vaughan Road Academy , are named after this street. Vaughan Road's contour is the result of it being parallel to the buried Castle Frank Brook to the northeast. Vaughan Road

1650-494: The new designer transit shelters. Trees were added, as well as ornamental pedestrian lighting along certain stretches, with the most extravagant in terms of design being in Corso Italia . The thorough redesign and reconstruction of the street was extended even to the streetcar loops. The streetcar right-of-way project upgraded the aesthetics of the public realm dramatically, though sidewalks had to be narrowed in places to accommodate

1700-497: The northern arc of Dundas Street crossing the Humber River near its western terminus, forming a link to Burnhamthorpe Road , its approximate equivalent arterial. St. Clair Avenue West has heavy automotive and public transit traffic. Over half the commuters in rush hour traffic travel by the 512 St. Clair streetcar line which connects with St. Clair subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University and St. Clair West station also on

1750-707: The right-of-way and two lanes of traffic in each direction. The traffic lanes themselves were narrowed slightly. From east to west, the main section of St. Clair passes through several prominent neighbourhoods starting with Moore Park and Deer Park . West of Avenue Road are Forest Hill , the South Hill , Hillcrest , Wychwood , Oakwood , Earlscourt (including Corso Italia ), and The Junction . The eastern section of St. Clair passes eastward starting in Parkview Hills , through Woodbine Gardens, Clairlea , Birchmount Park, and Kennedy Park to Cliffcrest . St. Clair Avenue

1800-634: The route was bought by private interests and it became the "Weston Plank Road", a toll road of planks. The Weston Plank Road extended from Dundas Street north to Musson's Bridge over the Humber, where Albion Road began. The company built its headquarters at St. Phillips Road and Weston Road. The building exists today at 2371 Weston Road. In 1846, the Weston Plank Road Company built Albion Plank Road from Musson's bridge northwest to Clairville where one could continue north to Bolton via Indian Line . In

1850-429: The southeast end of the street where it crosses Yonge Street over Line 1's Davisville station and Davisville Yard , it becomes Davisville Avenue, which continues to Bayview Avenue. Chaplin Crescent from Roselawn Avenue to Yonge Street is served by TTC route 14 Glencairn. Chaplin station on Line 5 Eglinton is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2024 with the rest of the line's first phase. Dawes Road

1900-659: The southern section is served by route 118. Until 1990, the section was serviced by the 36 Finch West and 118 Finch via Allen Road, the latter of which was cancelled in 1996 due to low ridership and the opening of Sheppard West station (then named Downsview station), making the route redundant. Danforth Road is a historically related arterial street in Toronto. Danforth Road splits off Danforth Avenue west of Warden Avenue and runs diagonally northeast until south of Lawrence Avenue , where it continues as McCowan Road . McCowan Road itself ends at Baseline Road located in Georgina , which

1950-467: The street is derived from Kingston, Ontario , as the road was the primary route used to travel from Toronto to the settlements east of it situated along the northern shores of Lake Ontario ; in the west end of Kingston, this highway was referred to as the York Road ( referring to the former name of Toronto used from 1793 to 1834 ) until at least 1908. Due to its diagonal course near the shore of Lake Ontario,

2000-505: The street is the terminus of many arterial roads in eastern Toronto, both east–west and north–south, with a few continuing for a short distance after as minor residential streets. However, Lawrence Avenue and Morningside Avenue continue as minor arterials for considerable distances beyond it to the mouth of the Rouge River in West Rouge and Guildwood Parkway, respectively. Kingston Road

2050-472: The two western municipalities of York Region, Vaughan in the south and King in the north. The speed limit through the urbanized parts of Vaughan is 60 km/h (35 mph), while the limit is 80 km/h (50 mph) in rural Vaughan and King Township. The northern terminus of the road is at Highway 9 in the Holland Marsh . In Toronto, the speed limit is 50 due to the unposted speed limit. Weston Road

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2100-399: The western terminus of Davenport Road , widens to four lanes, passes through the neighbourhood of Silverthorne, and ends at Rogers Road, the westernmost section of which also formed part of the original Weston Road, before the construction of the new Weston Road course south of Rogers Road's present terminus. The second is located in Vaughan, just north of Steeles Avenue, and was created when

2150-446: Was about 5.5 km (3.4 mi) west, at Old Weston Road (then Weston Road), where settlement of Carlton Village began in the late 1840s. The western end of St. Clair experienced substantial development, with the municipalities of West Toronto, Earlscourt, Dovercourt, and Oakwood established there. These municipalities were annexed by Toronto between 1908 and 1911, and the western section of St. Clair Avenue became entirely managed by

2200-399: Was first laid out in the first decade of the 1800s to connect Dundas Street to the village of Weston. This followed the route of what is today Old Weston and (west of Watts Avenue) Rogers Roads , then the route of the current Weston Road north to Weston. The old routing was renamed in 1948. Between 1810 and 1820, it was extended north to Vaughan Township by following Sixth Line West. In 1841,

2250-421: Was important for St. Clair West not only for the transit upgrades, but because it involved a near-total reconstruction of the street. Water mains were replaced. Overhead wires along the side of street and large wooden poles holding them up were phased out in favour of buried utilities, leaving only the single electric wires for streetcars. Unique poles and white streetlights were installed, coordinated in design with

2300-762: Was named after Derry in Northern Ireland and home of many settlers in the area. West of Highway 407 , Derry Road enters Halton Region as Halton Regional Road 7. This stretch of road is mainly rural except for the section between James Snow Parkway and Tremaine Road in Milton . After passing through another rural stretch, the road ends at Milburough Line in the town of Carlisle in Hamilton (formerly in Flamborough before amalgamating with Hamilton in January 2001). The street

2350-487: Was once the site of Malton , itself a part of Mississauga. West of the intersection with Mavis Road, the road makes a large arc around the former village of Meadowvale . The bypassed stretch was renamed Old Derry Road and can also be seen in a small stretch of Syntex Crescent. Derry Road is named for the "lost village" of Derry West, which was located around the Hurontario Street and Derry Road intersection. Derry West

2400-456: Was opened to traffic in 1918. The construction of the Vale of Avoca through the first half of the 1920s prompted the new Toronto Transit Commission to extend the St. Clair streetcar line east to Mount Pleasant Road and then north to Eglinton Avenue. From 1937 to 1952, St. Clair West formed part of provincial Highway 5A , providing an alternate route between Islington and Yonge Street that avoided

2450-600: Was redesignated as part of Weston Road in 2006. Weston Road then travels diagonally across the general arterial road grid in a northwesterly direction as a contour road to St. Phillips Road, passing through Mount Dennis at Eglinton Avenue , and Weston at Lawrence Avenue. North of St. Phillips, it becomes a north-south artery but does not align to the grid proper until south of Sheppard Avenue . It runs parallel to Highway 400 from north of Highway 401 to Steeles Avenue and into Vaughan in York Region. Most of Weston Road

2500-550: Was renamed for the Albion Township , which was the eastern third of the present-day (since 1973/1974) limits of Caledon . The road is located within Toronto, starting at the intersection of Weston Road and Walsh Avenue (continues eastward as Wilson Avenue) and heads northwest to Albion Road and Steeles Avenue (becoming Regional Road 50). The beginning of the road is Walsh Avenue, a short connector between Albion Road and Wilson Avenue. The intersection at Weston Road and Walsh Avenue

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