Kipling Avenue, formerly Mimico Avenue[1], is a street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a concession road, 6 concessions (12km) from Yonge Street, and is a major north-south arterial road in the former city of Etobicoke, Ontario. The street was surveyed in 1795 as a Meridian Street south of the east-west Meridian (now Rathburn Road) with lots to the east running east-west and lots to the west running north-south[2], a pattern later subdivisions preserved in modern side streets. Most of the road traverses residential neighbourhoods and pockets of industrial and commercial hubs. The street goes through such areas as New Toronto, Etobicoke Centre, Richview, and Rexdale.
First named Mimico Avenue, the street was planned to be the western boundary of Mimico but quickly became a central street for the new lakeshore municipalities of Long Branch, Toronto and New Toronto (in which it is situated). The street was named in honour of Rudyard Kipling[citation needed], author of such works as The Jungle Book and the Just So Stories, in preparation for a planned visit to Etobicoke which he was unable to make.
The Six Points interchange with Bloor and Ontario's early Toronto-Hamilton highway, now Dundas has traditionally been Etobicoke's central intersection. In 1953 Etobicoke left York County and joined the newly formed urban region Metropolitan Toronto launching a period of urbanisation which included changing the Six Points intersection to use a number of bridges. The street is now scheduled to be reconfigured to create an at-grade intersection.[3]
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Landmarks
Sights along Kipling Avenue in Toronto (north to south):
- North Humber Park
- North Kipling Park
- North Kipling Junior Middle School
- North Albion Collegiate Institute
- Albion Centre
- Albion Arena
- Toronto Public Library Rexdale branch
- Kipling Heights Plaza
- Toronto Public Library Northern Elms branch
- Mississauga Private School
- Monsignor Percy Johnson C.S.S.
- Etobicoke North GO Station
- Westway Plaza
- Dixon Grove Junior Middle School
- Denfield Park
- Islington Golf Club
- Six Points interchange
- Kipling subway station
- Kipling GO Station
- Kipling-Queensway Mall
- Mimico Correctional Centre
- Lakeshore Collegiate Institute
- Humber College Lakeshore campus
- Father John Redmond Catholic Secondary School
- Colonel Samuel Smith Park
Beyond Toronto
North of Steeles Avenue, Kipling is a broken street and appears briefly from Highway 7 to Langstaff Road. Its original alignment becomes Clarence Street until Major Mackenzie Road. It begins abruptly again south of Teston Road before finally terminating at King-Vaughan Road.
See also
- Kipling Collegiate Institute -a school named after the road.
References
- ^ Mimico, Etobicoke Township, York County, Province of Ontario, Chas. E. GOAD, 1890
- ^ Survey of the Southern Part of Etobicoke Township, Abraham Iredell, 1795, Archives of Ontario
- ^ Six Points Interchange Reconfiguration - EA goes to committee on November 29th | Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation
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