Victoria Park Avenue

Some street signs along Victoria Park Avenue are still marked with the symbol of the former Borough of East York.

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Victoria Park Avenue is a major north-south route in eastern Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

History

It 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. It was known until the 1960s as Dawes Road.

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 line northward.

It is still a two-lane residential street from Bracken Avenue north to Gerrard Street, albeit one with a heavy traffic load; at Gerrard Street it becomes a four-lane major arterial road. It reduces to two lanes again from a point north of Danforth Avenue to Dawes Road, then resumes its role as a four-lane arterial road for the rest of its length.

Victoria Park Avenue ends a short distance north of Steeles Avenue at Denison Street in Markham, Ontario.

Transportation

Victoria Park remains one of the busiest north-south streets on Toronto's east side, along with Markham Road and Kennedy Road. It is served by the TTC Subway at Victoria Park station and Route 24 (Victoria Park) and Route 12 (Kingston Road) buses.

There is a proposal for a "Victoria Park North" Subway station, on the Sheppard Subway that presently ends at Don Mills Terminal. This station would be located at Sheppard Avenue, where the 224 Victoria Park North route serving Don Mills Station, joins Victoria Park. On weekends, this route is called Woodbine and is a York Region Transit route.

Points of interest

• Neil McNeil Catholic High School
• Shoppers World Danforth
• Wexford Collegiate Institute
• Senator O'Connor College School
• Victoria Park Collegiate Institute
• Johnny's Charcoal Broiled Hamburgers
• Church of St. Jude (Wexford)

See also

• Royal eponyms in Canada

External links

• Victoria Park Avenue at Google Maps

v • d • e Roads in Markham, Ontario East-West Municipal Roads: Carlton • Clark East • Denison • Fred Varley • John • Raymerville North-South Municipal Roads: Birchmount • Brimley • Cornell Centre (Old Markham By-Pass) • Main Street Unionville • Victoria Park Regional Roads: 1 (Yonge) • 3 (Kennedy) • 7 • 8 (Woodbine) • 12 (Don Mills / Leslie) • 25 (Major MacKenzie) • 30 (York - Durham) • 34 (Bayview) • 48 (Donald Cousens) • 49 (Elgin Mills) • 65 (Warden) • 67 (McCowan) • 68 (Main St. Markham) • 69 (Ninth) • 71 (Fourteenth) • 73 (Sixteenth) Highways and Expressways: 7 • 48 • 404 • 407 ETR See also Municipal roads • Other transportations • York Regional Roads Roads in Ontario

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