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unusual facts about Bloor Street


St. Andrew's United Church

Located downtown near the intersection of Yonge and Bloor it is a combination of five other downtown Toronto congregations.


Canadian International Air Show

Performers fly in from Pearson, as well the island airport on nearby Toronto Islands, and so fly over the downtown area, with staging and holding primarily from Dufferin across to Jarvis and up to Bloor.

Islington-City Centre West

The Toronto Transit Commission's Bloor–Danforth line was extended into Etobicoke as far as Islington in 1968 with the establishment of Islington station at Islington Avenue and Bloor Street West.

Jamaal Magloire

In the early morning hours of June 23, 2001, Magloire's half-brother, 19-year-old Justin Sheppard, was shot and killed on the footbridge that spans the ravine around Rosedale Valley Road between Bloor Street East and Glen Road near Sherbourne subway station in Toronto.

Knob Hill Farms

Another mural facing the south side featuring Southern Ontario from downtown Toronto, with a street written as "Baloor" instead of Bloor Street and the Don Valley Parkway, the western suburbs, the Hamilton Mountain, Niagara Falls and near Fort Erie.

Sherbourne Street, Toronto

In 1838, following the Upper Canada Rebellion, seven blockhouses were built, guarding the approaches to Toronto, including the Sherbourne Blockhouse, built at the current intersection of Sherbourne and Bloor.

Tartu College

Tartu College is an independently owned and maintained student residence on the north side of Bloor Street West, just east of Madison Avenue, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The Annex

The northern Annex (north of Bloor Street) was home to many members of Toronto's Eaton family, Baldwin, Ross, and Simpson families until the mid-twentieth century.


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Avenue Road

According to local legend, Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe was surveying the old town of York and came to a spot on Bloor Street and pointed north.

Rochdale College

The 18-storey tower that once housed Rochdale at 341 Bloor Street is now known as the Senator David A. Croll Apartments.

St. Paul's, Bloor Street

St. Paul's, Bloor Street is the regimental church of The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada.