Victoria Park Avenue

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Victoria Park Avenue
Victoria Park Avenue within Toronto
Route information
Maintained by City of Toronto government, York Region
Major junctions
South end	Queen Street East
Major intersections	Kingston Road Danforth Avenue St. Clair Avenue O'Connor Drive Eglinton Avenue Lawrence Avenue Parkwoods Village Drive/Ellesmere Road Sheppard Avenue Finch Avenue Steeles Avenue
North end	Denison St
Highway system
Roads in Toronto North–South East–West Diagonal

Victoria Park Avenue is a major north-south route in eastern Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the western border of Scarborough, separating it from Old Toronto, East York, and North York. The common nickname for it is VP or Vic Park.

History[]

Victoria Park is a narrow residential street as it climbs the western edge of the Scarborough Bluffs in the Beaches

Victoria Park Avenue 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. Road was also called. Scarborough-York Town Line.

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 returns to four lanes for rest of its length. North of Dawes it shifts from being a residential street to being a suburban arterial, with mostly stores and low rise apartment buildings along the rest of its length. North of McNicoll Avenue the route is a mixed commercial and light industrial street.

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 in Scarborough, along with Markham Road and Kennedy Road. It is served by the Toronto subway at Victoria Park station. Historically the first bus to service the street were private routes that operated along Dawes Road, and then north along Victoria Park. This route was taken over by the TTC in 1954, and offered service as far north as Victoria Park and Lawrence.^[1] The opening of Victoria Park subway station in 1968 led to the creation of the 24 Victoria Park, replacing the Dawes Road bus on Victoria Park. It first ran to Victoria Park and Old Sheppard Avenue, but has steadily been extended northwards. Also beginning in 1968, the portion of Victoria Park south of the subway station began to be served by the 12 Kingston Road bus. This bus travels south until Kingston Road and then turns east into Scarborough. It stops at the Bingham Loop to meet up with the termini of the 502 Downtowner and 503 Kingston Rd.^[2]

Landmarks[]

Landmark	Cross street	Notes	Image
R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant	Queen St
Neil McNeil Catholic Secondary School	Bracken Ave
Shoppers World Danforth	Danforth Ave	Former auto plant
Victoria Park subway station	Denton Ave
Dentonia Park	Denton Ave	Also has a golf course
Eglinton Square Shopping Centre	Eglinton Ave
Church of St. Jude (Wexford)	Sloane Ave
Senator O'Connor College School	Rowena Dr
Victoria Park Collegiate Institute	Cassandra Blvd
Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Church	Combermere Dr
Parkway Mall	Ellesmere Rd
St. Andrew Anglican Church	Terraview Blvd
Johnny's Charcoal Broiled Hamburgers	Sheppard Ave

See also[]

• Royal eponyms in Canada

External links[]

• Victoria Park Avenue at Google Maps

References[]