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4 unusual facts about Yonge Street


Deer Park Junior and Senior Public School

It is located at 23 Ferndale Avenue, two blocks east of Yonge Street, just off St. Clair Avenue.

Holland Marsh

Yonge Street and the CN rail (Toronto - Barrie) are situated to the northeast.

Yonge

Yonge Street, a street in Toronto, Ontario, claimed to be the longest street in the world since it runs through the suburbs of Toronto and into Central and Northern Ontario

Yorkville Sound

Yorkville Sound began in 1963 in the back room of Long & McQuade, a music store on Yonge Street at the edge of the Yorkville neighborhood across the termination of Yorkville Avenue.


Land Force Central Area

At the time of its creation in the early-1990s, it was housed on the grounds of the former base and subsequently moved ca 1993 to the Place Nouveau office tower at Yonge Street north of Finch Avenue; this was controversial as the offices of the Area Commander, Major-General Brian Vernon, were lavishly renovated, attracting political criticism and attention from the Auditor General of Canada.

London School of Business and Finance Canada

The London School of Business and Finance Canada (informally LSBF Canada) is a private business school located at Yonge and College, in the centre of Toronto, Canada.

One Yonge Street

It is located at 1 Yonge Street at Queens Quay, and marks the foot of what was Highway 11, known informally as "the longest street in the world".

St. Andrew's United Church

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

St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

Located on Front Street one block east of Yonge Street, it was Toronto's official centennial project, commemorating the 1967 Canadian Centennial.

York East

Called the East Riding of York, it consisted of the Townships of Markham, Scarborough, the Village of Yorkville and the portion of the Township of York lying east of Yonge Street.


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Cardinal Transportation

Cardinal has a contract for minivans and accessible services for the Toronto District School Board for areas west of Yonge Street.

Eglinton Avenue

Several early settlers, impressed by the Eglinton Tournament hosted by the 13th Earl, named the hamlet developing at Yonge Street and the wagon trail between the third and fourth concessions after the Earl.

Lawrence Avenue

There are three rapid transit stations; Lawrence at Yonge Street and Lawrence West at Allen Road on the Yonge-University-Spadina subway line, and Lawrence East on the Scarborough RT, between Kennedy Road and Midland Avenue.

Merchandise Building

The Merchandise Building was one of the first large redevelopment projects east of Yonge Street, and has sparked other projects in the area such as the conversion of the Toronto RCMP Building into a luxury hotel, the old CBC building on Jarvis Street into condominiums and the new headquarters of the National Ballet School, and the storied Maple Leaf Gardens into a Loblaws supermarket and Ryerson University athletic centre.

One Yonge Street

The office space at One Yonge Street is also leased out to a variety of other companies, including the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, a dental office and the new downtown Toronto campus of Collège Boréal.

Rocco Rossi

He has kayaked 490 km solo from Toronto to Ottawa, cycled the entire 1,900 km length of Yonge Street from Rainy River, Ontario to Toronto and twice climbed Toronto’s seven tallest office towers over three days to equal the height of Mount Everest.

The Road to the Isles

It is said to have been played by Bill Millen, piper to Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, during the first day of the Normandy Landings on D-Day during World War II, during a daring Commando attack during Operation Roast in the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, and also at the start of construction on Toronto's first subway line, under Yonge Street, in 1949.

York Centre

The new riding consisted initially of the part of the township of North York west of Yonge Street, the part of the township of Vaughan south of Highway Number 7, and the town of Woodbridge.