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unusual facts about Yonge-Dundas Square



Achilla Orru

In Toronto, Achilla Orru was also well known as a TTC subway musician, often playing at Bloor-Yonge subway station.

Acton, Wrexham

After the Jeffreys the house belonged to Philip Egerton and then Ellis Yonge before being purchased by Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet, for £27,000.

Barrie line

As a part of the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension, a new GO station will be built to interchange with the Downsview Park Subway station.

Bishop Strachan School

Bishop Strachan School first opened September 1867 at Pinehurst, near the Art Gallery of Toronto (currently the Art Gallery of Ontario), then relocated in 1868 to a cottage on Front Street, and then relocated to Wykeham Hall at Yonge and College Streets in 1870.

Cardinal Transportation

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

Charlotte Mary Yonge

C. S. Lewis thought very highly of Yonge, at one point bracketing her evocations of domestic life with those of Homer and Leo Tolstoy.

Dan Euser

Euser's most well known works of art include the centerpiece for Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square, as well as North America's largest human-made waterfall, installed as part of the National September 11 Memorial at the former site of the World Trade Center in New York.

Do Make Say Think

In June 2009 at Luminato, Toronto's annual festival of arts and creativity, the band provided part of the live soundtrack for the outdoor screening (at Yonge-Dundas Square) of the 1919 silent German horror film Tales Of The Uncanny (Unheimliche Geschichten), alongside Canadian violinist Owen Pallett and electronica music artist Robert Lippok from Berlin, Germany.

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.

George Wyllys

He married Bridget Yonge/Young on 2 November 1609 at the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-on-Avon.

History of the Toronto Transit Commission

While the TTC can does not have funding to break ground on new projects, it is completing the planning stages, including an environmental assessment, for an extension of the Spadina line north to York University and Vaughan Metropolitan Centre.

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.

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.

May McNeer

May Yonge McNeer Ward (1902 in Tampa, Florida – 1994 in Reston, Virginia) was an American journalist and author of a variety of subjects, many of which were illustrated by her husband, Lynd Ward, whom she married a week after his graduation from Columbia University in 1926.

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.

P.K. Yonge

A plaque attesting to the honor is located at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (formerly the P.K. Yonge School), on Palafox Street in Pensacola.

Peter Li Preti

Representing the troubled Jane and Finch, he campaigned for development in the area, including extending the Spadina subway.

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.

Sam the Record Man flagship store

It was the best known store in the Sam the Record Man chain of 140 locations across Canada, two blocks away from the Eaton Centre and Dundas Square.

Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet

Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet of Colliton (8 September 1653 – 18 July 1731) was the father of Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet and great-grandson of Walter Yonge of Colyton.

St Michael Paternoster Royal

Other worthies buried in the pre-Fire church were William Oldhall (d.1459) Speaker of the House of Commons, Lord Mayors John Yonge (d.1466) and William Bayley (d.1524), Peter Blundell (d.1601) founder of Blundell's School, (mentioned in the novel Lorna Doone) and the Cavalier poet John Cleveland (d.1658).

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, Toronto

At the intersection of Front and Yonge are two performing arts houses, the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto's "centennial" project and the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.

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.

Toronto City Council

Patrick's (named for Saint Patrick) – bounded by Yonge, Bathurst, Queen and College Streets (now part of Trinity-Spadina) – St. Patrick's Church is located within this ward

Vaughan Metropolitan Centre

It will be linked by a future subway station on the Yonge-University-Spadina line of the Toronto subway and RT system.

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

Yonge–University–Spadina line

This extension will likely replace the portion of York Region Transit's Viva Orange bus rapid transit line that covers the Downsview – York University route.

Premier Leslie Frost and Mayor Allan A. Lamport, among other important people, rode the first train that morning, going north from the yards at Davisville Station, and then from Eglinton south along the entire line.

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.

York Mills Bus Terminal

The terminal mainly supports GO Transit's bus services east and west across the Highway 401 corridor and is adjacent to York Mills station on the Yonge-University-Spadina line of the Toronto Subway.


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