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12 unusual facts about Woodbine Avenue


Brown's Corners, York Regional Municipality, Ontario

Brown's Corners is an unincorporated community in Markham, Regional Municipality of York in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada and located near the corner of Woodbine Avenue and Highway 7.

Buttonville Public School

In September 2007, the French immersion program relocated from Buttonville P.S. to a newly built French immersion school, Sir Wilfrid Laurier PS, located east of Woodbine Avenue north of Elgin Mills Road south of Major Mackenzie Drive.

Buttonville, Ontario

Woodbine Avenue runs north-south on the east side of Unionville's Buttonville.

Rouge River is to the northeast and Buttonville Airport is directly west of the community Highway 404 is to the west with four interchanges and the nearest interchange with the Highway 407 Express Toll Route (ETR) is 2 km south on Woodbine Avenue.

Cathedraltown, Ontario

The community began its settlement in early 2006, beginning with the new homes east of Woodbine Avenue, centred on Hazelton Avenue.

Donald Dean Summerville

The Donald D. Summerville outdoor Olympic-sized pool (located at Woodbine Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard East in The Beaches) and the annual Donald Summerville Yacht Race, hosted by Ashbridge's Bay Yacht Club, are named after him.

Lake Shore Boulevard

From here it travels close to, though not always within sight of, Lake Ontario eastward through the city to Ashbridges Bay, where it curves north and becomes Woodbine Avenue.

Prior to 1998, two segments of Lake Shore Boulevard (from the EtobicokeMississauga boundary to the Humber River and from the eastern terminus of the Gardiner Expressway to Woodbine Avenue) were designated as part of Highway 2.

Lawrence Avenue

When the Don Valley Parkway was constructed in the 1960s, Lawrence was rebuilt between the Woodbine Avenue allowance, and Victoria Park Avenue, as a "jog eliminator" between the former concession roads of North York and Scarborough Townships.

Toronto Railway Company Belt Line

The Bloor streetcar was extended from Jane Street to Woodbine Avenue, and remained in operation until it was replaced by the Bloor-Danforth Subway line in 1968.

Upper Beaches

The western portion between Woodbine Avenue and Coxwell is referred to by the city as Woodbine Corridor.

Victoria Square, Ontario

The community is bounded by 19th Avenue, Warden Avenue, Woodbine Avenue and Major Mackenzie Drive.


Adrian Roks

John Magno, the president of Woodbine Building Supply at Danforth Avenue and Woodbine Avenue, testified that he had no knowledge of Roks' involvement.