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Danforth Avenue (informally also known as the Danforth) and Danforth Road are two historically-related arterial streets in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Danforth Avenue is an east-west street that begins in Old Toronto at the Prince Edward Viaduct as a physical continuation of Bloor Street and continues for about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east through old Toronto, about 350 metres (1,150 ft) of old ...
It is located on Danforth Avenue, between Chester Avenue and Dewhurst Boulevard, in east Toronto. Named after Asa Danforth, Jr., an American contractor who designed Queen Street and Kingston Road, the area is known for its architecture dating back to as early as 1910, and for its number of Greek restaurants and stores.
Old Toronto [40] St. James The Less Chapel 1858 Frederick William Cumberland and William George Storm: Gothic Revival: 635 Parliament Street Cabbagetown: Old Toronto 6 St. Stephen-in-the-Fields 1858 103 Bellevue Avenue Kensington Market: Old Toronto 18 H. S. Strathy House 1858 [note 22] Second Empire 342 Adelaide Street West Entertainment ...
A streetcar passed through Danforth Village, 1925. The Village developed as a streetcar suburb in the early-20th century.. The area first appeared in the 19th century as the 'Coleman' postal village centered on the intersection of Danforth and Dawes (a street built through the lands of the local Taylor family) with a general store and inn.
Old City of Toronto N 60 Woodbine-Lumsden: East York N 94 Wychwood: Old City of Toronto N 170 Yonge–Bay Corridor Old City of Toronto Bay Street, Financial District: N 100 Yonge–Eglinton: Old City of Toronto Chaplin Estates: N 151 Yonge–Doris North York N 97 Yonge–St. Clair: Old City of Toronto N 27 York University Heights: North York Y 31
The Pape Village Business Improvement Area represents approximately 110 businesses along the thoroughfare, and undertakes efforts to promote and beautify the area. Since much of the existing building stock in Pape Village dates to the 1940s and 1950s, the City of Toronto adopted a new community improvement plan for the district in 2003, in order to assist local businesses to renovate and ...
Before incorporation as a city in 1834, Toronto was known as York.For about two decades from its inception in 1793, most residents settled in an area bounded by present-day Jarvis and Parliament streets, south of Queen Street East (then known as Lot Street), and north of Front Street, which at the time was at the waterfront.
Danforth GO Station is a railway station [2] on GO Transit's Lakeshore East line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station is situated in the east end of Old Toronto, south west of the intersection of Main Street and Danforth Avenue. The station is a short walk from Main Street station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth of the Toronto subway.