Bayview Avenue is a major north-south route in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The southern end of Bayview Avenue starts at River Street (under Queen Street East) near the city’s Lake Ontario waterfront (or Toronto Bay hence the name Bayview), and is carried above the Don Valley by the six-lane Bayview Bridge. It runs north beyond Steeles Avenue, Toronto’s northern city limit, and continues north through York Region, where it is formally identified as York Regional Road 34.
Many of the neighbourhoods that Bayview Avenue passes through, such as the Bridle Path, are considered to be among the most expensive residential real estate in Toronto and among the most prestigious neighbourhoods in all of Canada. These areas include the intersections at Post Road, Lawrence Avenue, Steeles Avenue and 16th Avenue.
Bayview Avenue is also home to major places of worship of almost every major religious tradition including synagogues, an Islamic mosque, the city’s largest evangelical churches, Canada’s largest Buddhist Temple, Toronto’s largest Eastern Orthodox cathedral, and Canada’s only Zoroastrian Temple. These can be found, surprisingly, all along a fifteen-kilometre section of the road.
Following World War II, Bayview was extended south from Moore Avenue in Leaside to Front Street via the parallel to the route of the Don Valley Parkway. This addition is frequently referred to as the Bayview Extension. South of Bloor Street, Bayview runs alongside the Canadian National Railway tracks in the Don Valley. This part of Bayview, though only four lanes wide, and at its southernmost tip only two lanes wide, is nevertheless a very quick route from the downtown to the suburbs due to the absence of residences and businesses along the route and the lack of cross-streets.
Prior to the 1964 extension of the Don Valley Parkway south from Bloor to the Gardiner Expressway, the Bayview Extension was the fastest north-south route from North York to downtown Toronto. The Bayview Extension remains a popular alternate route to the Don Valley Parkway.
Attractions along Bayview Avenue
(From the south)
- Riverdale Farm
- Necropolis Cemetery
- Prince Edward Viaduct
- Don Valley Brick Works
- Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Glendon College, York University
- Bob Rumball Centre for the Deaf
- Toronto French School
- The Granite Club
- The Crescent School
- Canadian Film Centre
- Highway 401
- Bayview Station on the Sheppard line
- Bayview Village Shopping Centre
- Highway 407
- Oak Ridges, Ontario
Additional notes
Bayview Avenue may also be referred to as:
York Regional Road 34 
north of Steeles Avenue
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