Streets in Toronto - Bridle Path, Toronto, List of North-South Roads in Toronto, List of East-West Roads in Toronto, Yonge Street (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: Bridle Path, Toronto, List of north-south roads in Toronto, List of east-west roads in Toronto, Yonge Street, Queen Street West, Dundas Street, Bathurst Street, Lake Shore Boulevard, St. Clair Avenue, Spadina Avenue, Raymore Drive, Woodbine Avenue, Palmerston Boulevard, Dufferin Street, Bloor Street, Finch Avenue, Queen's Quay, Lawrence Avenue, Allen Road, College Street, Brimley Road, Steeles Avenue, Eglinton Avenue, John Street, Gerrard Street, Parliament Street, Sheppard Avenue, Bay Street, Black Creek Drive, Danforth Avenue, Kipling Avenue, King Street, Ossington Avenue, Victoria Park Avenue, The Queensway, Vaughan Road, Morningside Avenue, Royal York Road, Lansdowne Avenue, List of roads in Toronto, Eastern Avenue, University Avenue, Roncesvalles Avenue, Jameson Avenue, Front Street, Kingston Road, Jarvis Street, Weston Road, De Grassi Street, York Mills Road. Excerpt: The following is a list of the north-south arterial thoroughfares in the Canadian city of Toronto. The city is organized in a grid pattern dating back to the plan laid out by Augustus Jones between 1793 and 1797. Most streets are aligned in the north-south or east-west direction, based on the shoreline of Lake Ontario. In other words, major north-south roads are generally perpendicular to the Lake Ontario shoreline and major east-west roads are generally parallel to the lake's shoreline. The Toronto road system is also influenced by its topography as some roads are aligned with the old Lake Iroquois shoreline, or the deep valleys. Minor streets with documented history or etymology are listed in a separate section. Listed west to east Highway 409 above Kipling AvenueKipling Avenue is rumoured to be named after Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book. Kipling was scheduled to read at the Woodbridge fair in 1907, but was forced to cancel at the l...