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Yonge Street

1   bested the radial car for control of Yonge Street.

2   out Yonge Street. C.W. Jefferys, The Picture Gallery of Canadian

3   stagecoach traffic that rumbled along Yonge Street, opening hotel and tavern businesses to serve

4  Yonge Street has left its mark on the history of

5   too, announces its presence along this Yonge Street lifeline. Signs of growth are everywhere.

6   past and present remain strong. As Yonge Street rises in elevation south of Major

7   northeast corner of Lorne Avenue and Yonge Street.

8   automobile dealerships reminds us that Yonge Street brought the automobile as well as the

9   to commemorate the historic role of Yonge Street, the cairn

10   to the final decade of the twentieth, Yonge Street has been the spinal cord of Richmond

11   Line of Yonge Street, showing the various routes between Lake

12   had already decided on the name - Yonge Street, after Sir George Yonge, an

13   the Detroit River. A second road, named Yonge Street, would strike north from Toronto to the

14   Simcoe strengthened his case for a Yonge Street route by adding commercial factors to his

15   crossed to the west of the future Yonge Street around Bond Lake, then to the east side

16   Street after the secretary of state and Yonge Street after the secretary of war. Sir George

17   George Yonge left no children, so Yonge Street is his only legacy to the

18   Yonge Street project was soon underway. Between February

19   Equally important, "half the road on Yonge Street is allotted to settlers." By Christmas,

20   Berczy proved unable to finish his Yonge Street contract within the specified year. Equipment

21   contributed to the collapse of his Yonge Street project himself by flirting with a rival

22   who opened up the farmlands east of Yonge Street in the 1790s; two centuries later these lands

23   the end of May, Yonge Street had been "opened" - that is, a path twenty

24   those initial months of the Yonge Street project, Simcoe and his surveyors relied

25   Hill history as a builder of Yonge Street and a colonizer of adjacent Markham

26   Township and early builder of Yonge Street. John Andre, William Berczy, Co-Founder of

27   Berczy began work on the stretch of Yonge Street from the hill south of Thornhill north

28   53 near Bond's Lake. "The piece of Yonge Street from [Lot] 29 to River Holland which I have

29   Surveyor, who made the first survey of Yonge Street in 1794. Association of Ontario Land

30   the 1790s, in addition to his work on Yonge Street and Dundas Street, the energetic Jones

31   resumed his Yonge Street work on January 4, 1796. More than a surveyor

32   described it as a road or street, Yonge Street in the late 1790s was little more than a

33   "an Indian & a Canadian" travelled the Yonge Street route all the way from Georgian Bay to the

34   report consisted of a "list of settlers on Yonge Street, stating the improvements that have been

35   data for his report by going along Yonge Street and noting activity on the various lots on

36   up Yonge Street with Augustus Jones in the 1790s, then

37   we must leave Yonge Street - the spinal cord of the Europeans'

38   east or Markham Township side of Yonge Street than on the west or Vaughan Township

39   Works on the left or east side of Yonge Street. On November 19, 1896, between nine and ten

40   terminus on the northeast corner of Yonge Street and Lorne Avenue and Toronto's northern

41   paused for breath as it pushed north up Yonge Street - reaching Oak Ridges, Aurora, and

42   was located on the west side of Yonge Street, immediately north of Bond Crescent,

43   for they were now connected directly with Yonge Street. Village teenagers rode the line to high

44   T&Y purchased new radial cars, extended its Yonge Street line to Lake Simcoe in 1907, and converted

45   track was placed along the east side of Yonge Street, the side to the lee of drifting

46   on the Metropolitan line at Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie Drive. City of

47   moving work crews into place along Yonge Street - one crew at Richmond Hill, a

48   56 at the Richmond Hill station, Yonge Street and Lorne Avenue. The first week set

49   Street, along the east side of Yonge Street, from the Richmond Hill bakery

50   the short-distance passenger travel along Yonge Street.

51   and electric rail travel had benefited Yonge Street and the centre of Richmond Hill, the

52   along the Yonge Street line of the Metropolitan Railway

53   Mrs. E.E. (Gamble) Clarke, 12673 Yonge Street

54   dynamo house, smoke stack - 12485 Yonge Street

55   Michael Clarke's house, 12611 Yonge Street

56   12691 Yonge Street, a "cottage" built in 1936 by Robert

57   Toronto, our big green car glides north on Yonge Street, through the pleasant suburban villages of

58   promenade makes a nice approach from Yonge Street to the Pavilion, which is prettily

59   merrily up Yonge Street, the Metropolitan trolleys took dancers to

60   and overhead wires stretching up and down Yonge Street as far as the eye could see, the

61   four electric lights in its waiting room at Yonge Street and Lorne Avenue - the first electric

62   lights would be hung in the centre of Yonge Street, about six metres (twenty feet) above ground

63   business places and residences along Yonge Street, and many of the homes along the side streets.

64   passing under an evergreen arch at Yonge Street and Lorne

65   south on Yonge Street from the roof of the Methodist

66   north on Yonge Street from the roof of the Methodist

67   on the northeast corner of today's Yonge Street and Highway 7. City of Toronto

68   agricultural land, stretching from Yonge Street east to Bayview Avenue and north along

69   public school on the west side of Yonge Street in the core of the village - an ideal spot

70   behind the wheelbarrow. Let us walk along Yonge Street with Dorothy McKenzie Rumble as she

71   the south end of town, and takes us across Yonge Street.

72   National Railway tracks towards Yonge Street. The H.J. Mills greenhouses are top

73   M.L. McConaghy Public School on Yonge Street, the second Patterson School west of

74   Major Mackenzie Drive) west of Yonge Street in 1918. The Women's Institute

75   places of business, the banners across Yonge Street, the parades and bands and speeches and

76   turns off Yonge Street into the park during the 1923

77   the Orange "orphanage" north on Yonge Street. "The changes in this village and district,"

78   Mr. A. J. Hume's residence on Yonge Street, be kind enough to return them, after he is

79   carrying out the improvements to Yonge Street unearthed a bit of local history Tuesday when

80   highways department took a census of Yonge Street traffic. Each day from seven o'clock in the

81   the rubber-tired vehicle now owned Yonge Street. Daily traffic at Langstaff Corner

82   Yonge Street through Richmond Hill in 1927.

83   yet another wave of development along Yonge Street. Long strings of homes sitting on five-acre

84   approach from Yonge Street. Archives of Ontario Parking and picnicking.

85   automobile seriously started to take over Yonge Street. The summer of 1924 witnessed a daily average

86   was that Governor Simcoe's former Yonge Street stump trail passed from county to provincial

87   sold for $60,000. Radial runs on Yonge Street were cut in half and co-ordinated with new

88   plans to end radial service on Yonge Street. Richmond Hill and other communities along the

89   radial cars returned to the stretch of Yonge Street that ran from Richmond Hill south to

90   radial cars still ran along Yonge Street south of the village for another eighteen

91   High School at the southwest corner of Yonge and Wright streets became too small, and

92   strategic role in secondary education along Yonge Street. Half a century earlier, Richmond Hill

93   Loyal True Blue and Orange Home, Yonge Street North, opened in 1923. Roger Carlsen

94   Rustic Inn on the west side of Yonge Street at Nos. 24-28 South. The

95   Iroquoian sites on the west side of Yonge Street suggest "a single community moving through

96   located southwest of the intersection of Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie Drive. It seems to

97   eighty hectares) at the southwest corner of Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie

98   later attention on his uncle's property at Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie Drive. He moved on

99   Mississaugas over his right to run the Yonge Street survey through their lands. 33 That

100   at York and the few settlers along Yonge Street were especially apprehensive. 35 But the

101   his "Report on the Condition of Yonge Street." Jones himself was personally very close to

102   surveyor general for Upper Canada in 1794. "Yonge Street, I suppose, was the intended centre for this

103   as the first to put down roots along Yonge Street within the boundaries of modern Richmond

104   lots were taken up along both sides of Yonge Street through the heart of the future village of

105   north along the east side of Yonge Street, William Bond is identified as the owner of

106   Shaws and Bonds - all these original Yonge Street pioneers were granted lots at the pleasure of

107   Simcoe's Yonge Street plan excluded any Crown reserve or clergy

108   Johnson) These settlers had to meet certain "Yonge Street conditions" in return for their free grants

109   specified hours or even days of work on Yonge Street.

110   surveyor general David Smith of Yonge Street in 1799, "and fit for every purpose of

111   a few consignments for the fur trade along Yonge Street over the next ten years, the £12,000 never

112   of Vaughan Township's thirty-five Yonge Street lots were granted up to 1798, and by 1802 the

113   Upper Canada, finally trekking north up Yonge Street in the spring of 1794. They passed beyond the

114   the entire length of Yonge Street, from York to Newmarket, provincial

115   since no important streams intersected Yonge Street in the core area of the present town, no

116   of Vaughan and the first on Yonge Street." 1

117   at the southeast corner of present-day Yonge Street and Highway 7. But Balsar and

118   the end of June 1797, then travelled up Yonge Street to their land. At about the time

119   building that was later part of 10370 Yonge Street.

120   the northeast corner of today's Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie Drive; four years

121   their cabin, located some distance east of Yonge Street on a pathway charitably described as a

122   we have walked from our own log house on Yonge Street, across rough-cut Langstaff Road to

123   European settlement was not confined to Yonge Street. By late 1794 present-day Bayview Avenue

124   the municipality stretching east from Yonge Street, and named for William Markham,

125   to spend working on the construction of Yonge Street. Many probably regretted leaving comfortable

126   from France who settled farther north along Yonge Street.

127   eventually returned home. Meanwhile, on Yonge Street, "their little clearings were soon overrun

128   on each of his four large farms on Yonge Street, cleared the requisite number of acres, and

129   up Crown land grants along both sides of Yonge Street from present-day Elgin Mills Road

130   Anglican Church, on the east side of Yonge Street just south of Stouffville Road, near

131   settlers farther south along Yonge Street, Bayview Avenue, and Leslie Street

132   That is why they were given lands along Yonge Street, equidistant from existing French-speaking

133   and help open up the northern part of Yonge Street. 15

134   Augustus Jones headed up Yonge Street to look over the properties. Meanwhile,

135   Miles) at the southwest corner of Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie Drive, as it

136   opened at the southeast corner of Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie Drive. It quickly

137   for himself on the southwest corner of Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie Drive. There he

138   of his land on the northwest corner of Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie Drive for a

139   a log settlement house on the west side of Yonge Street, just north of today's Presbyterian

140   to land he owned at the corner of Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie Drive. For

141   town, Miles decided to move to his Yonge Street properties in 1800 - Lot 45 in Markham

142   the North West Company to cart supplies up Yonge Street, had lured people away from the land. "There

143   General Brock was well aware of the Yonge Street farmers' "clamour to return and attend to

144   many of the American-born settlers along Yonge Street faced questions of loyalty and patriotism as

145   tools initially distributed to friendly Yonge Street settlers by the Americans after they had

146  Yonge Street farmers accused of pro-American sympathies

147   be made farther north. During the war, Yonge Street became a lifeline, though a precarious one,

148   North West Company started using the Yonge Street route over which it had dithered for so many

149   and Presbyterian preachers came up Yonge Street and held services from time to time -

150   Miles' property on the west side of Yonge Street, where the Presbyterian Church and its

151   hectares) of his land on the west side of Yonge Street to the church. Parts of this plot not used

152   By the mid-1820s, the community along Yonge Street between Major Mackenzie Drive and

153  Yonge Street was on his itinerary, and in mid-July he made

154   Certainly the Duke travelled along Yonge Street in July 1819, but whether he stopped at

155   by forty feet), located on the west side of Yonge Street a short distance south of the present

156   sisters-in-law who lived south along Yonge Street, "set out in [their] Gloucester boots and

157   Richard Gapper on Lot 40 East (Yonge Street and 16th Avenue). She ended up staying

158   1828, she recorded her first impression of Yonge Street south of the village centre: "You have now a

159   one to two thousand pounds on many parts of Yonge Street." 5 Along the road in the early 1830s, a

160   Twickenham Farm on the west side of Yonge Street just north of Richmond Hill.

161   two-hundred-acre (eighty-hectare) farm on Yonge Street next to the Smith property. Boyd was one

162   Jameson was equally effusive. Yonge Street, she observed, leads "through a well-settled

163   with the advance of civilization on Yonge Street." 13 Differences between these two groups

164   Richard Gapper on the east side of Yonge Street near today's 16th Avenue, later

165   York County farmers to march down Yonge Street and arrive in the

166   travelled up Yonge Street in mid-November to look for proof of support

167   the groups passed. The men coming down Yonge Street through Richmond Hill broke into smaller

168   they felt were needed in their Yonge Street district. With many friends among York's

169   pair represented the true wishes of the Yonge Street communities. Rather, she attributed their

170   Gapper O'Brien, chronicler of Yonge Street life in the late 1820s and early 1830s.

171   marching down Yonge Street to attack Toronto in December 1837.

172   rebel forces earlier that day. While out on Yonge Street to find out what was happening, he was

173   leaping fences, and succeeded in reaching Yonge Street to the south. He fell in with John

174   left Montgomery's and marched down Yonge Street towards Toronto. A truce party met them, and

175   were 1500 strong. They marched up Yonge Street to attack Mackenzie's force of some five to

176   Frances Moodie, Lot 49 East, on Yonge Street, a rallying point for Richmond Hill

177   plaque on the east side of Yonge Street, opposite Levendale. Photo by

178   fence and continue their progress south on Yonge Street. At the same time Francis Boyd arrived

179   Robert Moodie on his ride down Yonge Street in the evening of December 4, 1837. David

180   from the east side of Yonge Street and the back concessions of Markham

181   the west side of Yonge Street and the back concessions of Vaughan

182   So tense was the atmosphere on Yonge Street that most of those present at the funeral

183   two-storey log building on the west side of Yonge Street, between Centre and Richmond streets,

184   helped by the usual deplorable state of Yonge Street. "The road was in such bad condition," writes

185   Vaughan Township side of Yonge Street), from Aaron Munshaw to

186   military engineer, "the vaunted Yonge Street mud road" was little more than a "Slough of

187   the Anglicans built one on Yonge Street, south of the Presbyterians, in

188   sections formed by local ratepayers along Yonge Street both south and north of the village centre

189   activity along the stretch of Yonge Street, as well as new church and school buildings -

190   its houses and shops were strung out along Yonge Street, where Lots 46 and 47 had been subdivided on

191   fair, sponsored by the recently formed Yonge Street Agricultural Society and held on the

192   between two hotels on opposite sides of Yonge Street, while horse races were held along the road

193   church building on the east side of Yonge Street, about a block north of the

194   was a gentleman farmer who lived on Yonge Street north of Richmond Hill village. A

195   and hotels that had sprung up along Yonge Street from Toronto north to Holland Landing.

196   was located on the east side of Yonge Street, south of the Trench Carriage

197   and Raymond on the west side of Yonge Street, Vanderburgh on the east side, Gordon at

198   hotels saw their business boom. But the Yonge Street coach business itself proved extremely

199   Yonge Street to the south, Barnabas

200   grew and commerce increased along Yonge Street, larger frame structures like

201   construction crews worked on improving Yonge Street north from Carrville

202   day's journey by way of Yonge Street was easily accomplished by stage - an old

203   Langstaff Toll-gate, today's Yonge Street and Highway 7 intersection. For many

204   government once more assumed control of Yonge Street, Dundas Street, and Kingston Road. Finally, in

205   before that, however, Yonge Street had been eclipsed by the new transportation

206  Yonge Street had long been recognized as a vital

207   and Napanee, won the contract for the Yonge Street section of the project. For a sum of £1,188,

208   trustees continued work on Yonge Street, financing the project on money borrowed

209  Yonge Street presented special problems, with its

210   1845, government funding for Yonge Street work was exhausted, and all construction and

211   the debt in thirty years. By 1846, however, Yonge Street tolls of £954 for the year were insufficient

212   government announced in late 1849 that Yonge Street, together with Dundas Street and Kingston

213   resumed on Yonge Street during the early 1850s, to the delight of

214   for home, reached the corner of King and Yonge Streetsat exactly 1 P.M. & walked to Finch's in 2

215   bypassing the village and disrupting the Yonge Street stagecoach business. Farquharson On May 16,

216   drew passenger and freight service off Yonge Street and put the Toronto-to- Holland Landing

217   was finally put out of business when Yonge Street's interurban electric railway reached

218   Richmond Hill, challenged Yonge Street's monopoly on north-south trade, dealt a severe

219   horses or drove their carriages west from Yonge Street along Vaughan Sideroad. Two hours after

220   old water route through Lake Erie and the Yonge Street wagon

221   kilometres (about four miles) west of Yonge Street to avoid the steep slopes of Gallows Hill and

222   tap the rich commerce that had poured down Yonge Street from Bradford for the past half-century.

223   because of the continuing importance of Yonge Street as a transportation route. But equally

224   on a wooden sidewalk that stretched from Yonge Street along Vaughan Sideroad (Major Mackenzie

225   where Highway 7 today intersects Yonge Street, stood Langstaff, or Langstaff

226   the site of Toll Gate No. 3 on the Yonge Street highway, Langstaff Corners by

227   on the northeast corner of what are today Yonge Street and Highway 7 was purchased by the City

228   Elgin Mills Road today intersects Yonge Street, was Elgin Mills. So close to

229   Located on the sideroad west of Yonge Street behind the blacksmith shop on the

230   farm stood on the west side of Yonge Street north of Elgin Mills. From 1836 to 1843

231   John's Anglican Church, Jefferson. Yonge Street north of Elgin Mills supported a number

232   Martin Macleod, west of Yonge Street and north of Jefferson

233   prosperity to mill sites rather than Yonge Street travellers. Here, along a headwater tributary

234   was on the west, or Vaughan, side of Yonge Street, with a significant "arm" extending into

235   further complicated by the fact that Yonge Street divided it into two parts. Everything east of

236   residents from the west side of Yonge Street. David Bridgeford served on Vaughan

237   half of the township rather than on the Yonge Street strip along its far western

238   helped pull together the two sides of Yonge Street. Hotels, stores, and churches naturally

239   (today's 10117, 10119 and 10123 Yonge Street), Trench employed some fifteen men,

240   candidates represented a combination of Yonge Street business interests and agricultural concerns

241   or "plank" walkways two metres wide along Yonge Street and one metre wide on side streets. Opening

242   and hardware store on the east side of Yonge Street. The blaze spread quickly to Crosby's dry

243   as the Public School) on the west side of Yonge Street, and "for a time seriously threatened the

244   Church, circa 1900, looking north up Yonge Street, with the spire of the Methodist

245   Bond Lake Hotel. But where once the Yonge Street traveller stopped at one of the town's many

246   over the Robin Hood Hotel, on Yonge Street towards the south end of the village, and was

247   Farther north, on the right side of Yonge Street, the Richmond Hill Methodist Church and

248   one-fifth of a hectare) at the corner of Yonge Street and Centre Street East for a new

249   people have commenced promenading. Yonge Street with its fine stretch of sidewalks affords

250   Hill seemed poised to follow other Yonge Street communities into general economic decline.

251   Carriage Works on the east side of Yonge Street and the Newton Tanning Company of

252   were highlighted by a grand parade along Yonge Street, led by a loud and enthusiastic brass band.

253   agricultural implements along Yonge Street on May 24, 1884 - a time when prospects

254   four attached houses on the east side of Yonge Street at the south end of the village. She and

255   1895. The house was built in 1849, facing Yonge Street; in the twentieth century it was moved to

256   his stately home on the west side of Yonge Street just north of the village core,

257   Saturday night to look up and down Yonge Street and notice the decided improvement the

258   Central Guaranty Trust Office at 10132 Yonge Street), council resumed its regular routine of

259   same year it purchased land east of Yonge Street for a new public park, later

260  Yonge Street By

261   Tracks Block Yonge Street Construction

262  Yonge Street Pioneers

263   Simcoe: The Man Who Planned Yonge Street

264   Yonge Street Settlers

265   Moodie Rides Down Yonge Street

266   on Carrville Road, west of Yonge Street, built in

267  Yonge Street's Namesake: Sir George

268   on a Map: Yonge Street Lots Assigned to French Royalists in

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