NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Don Mills Road

Don Mills Road is a north-south route in Central Toronto. The road was built as a routing beside the eastern banks of the Don River (Now called Broadview Avenue) to the original mills on the Don, now called Todmorden Mills. In the 1950s, an urban "planned" community of Don Mills, was created by businessman and stable owner E.P. Taylor. The road was further extended north into North York at this time, beyond its termination at York Mills Road, where there was a "jog" along York Mills to the Third Concession east of Yonge Street, known before the 404 construction as Woodbine Avenue. The newer alignment, crossed over Highway 401, which has no access to that highway, but was in the Media in early 2005, when a suicide occurred where the victim first threw his five-year old daughter from the bridge--she survived. }|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Official Flag]]|Coat Image=[[Image:{{{Coat Image}}}|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Coat of Arms]]}} {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Diversity Our Strength {{Canadian City/Location Image is:{{{Location Image Type}}}|[[Image:{{{Location Image}}}|thumbnail|250px|City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Location. ... This article is about the river in Toronto, Canada. ... Broadview Avenue is a street in east end Toronto and travels along the east side of the Don River. ... Don Mills is a new town in Toronto, Ontario. ... Edward Plunket Taylor, born January 29, 1901 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - died May 14, 1989 in Lyford Cay, New Providence, Bahamas, was a business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred race horses. ... North York forms the central part of the northern half of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Yonge Street in Toronto before a marathon Yonge Street (pronounced young), located in Ontario, Canada, is a major arterial street in Toronto and a provincial highway. ... Highway 401 as part of the 400-series network Ontario provincial highway 401, which is normally referred to simply as Highway 401, is a freeway that extends across Southern Ontario, Canada. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

The road forms the boundaries of the Henry Farm and Parkway Forest. At Don Mills and Sheppard Avenue East, is the location of the 1970s Fairview Mall, and since November 2002, the Don Mills (TTC) Subway Terminal of the Sheppard Subway stubway line. Henry Farm is a neighbourhood in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Parkway Forest is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Sheppard Avenue is an east-west street in Toronto, Ontario and the former city of North York. ... Fairview Mall is a shopping centre located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Don Mills is a station on the Sheppard line of the Toronto subway. ... The Sheppard Line is the newest subway line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. ...

Between Sheppard and Finch Avenue East, is another "planned community" called Don Valley Village, built in the 1960s. Here, Don Mills Road splits into two one way curved boulevards surrounding, Schools, Community Centres, and a plaza in between, creating The Peanut as it looks from a topographic map. Finch Avenue is a major east-west commercial thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... The Peanut is a neighbourhood in northeastern Toronto, Ontario, named for a peanut-shaped bend in Don Mills Rd. ...

At Finch Avenue, is the sprawling Newnham Campus of Seneca College. Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology has approximately 90,000 part-time and 17,000 full-time students. ...

Presently, the street begins at O'Connor Drive, (eastwards from Broadview, was the orginal Don Mills Road), with ramps to the Don Valley Parkway, passing Eglinton Avenue and the Ontario Science Centre, and ending in Toronto at Steeles Avenue. OConnor Drive is a street that connects Eglinton Avenue East to Broadview Avenue (Toronto) and runs along the south side of the Don Valley. ... Don Valley Parkway, looking northbound, in typical rush-hour traffic The Don Valley Parkway (often referred to as the DVP or simply as the Parkway) is a controlled-access freeway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, so named because it runs through the scenic Don River Valley. ... Eglinton Avenue is an east-west throughfare in Toronto, Ontario. ... Ontario Science Centre (OSC) is a science museum in Toronto, near the Don Valley Parkway about 11 km NE of downtown on Don Mills Road just south of Eglinton Avenue East. ... Steeles Avenue is an east-west road on the northern city limits of the Toronto, Ontario. ...

North of Steeles, Don Mills Road continues north into York Region, and ends at John Street, near the former German Mills. Further north, this road becomes Leslie Street, also referred to as York Regional Road 12. North of Highway 407 (partial exit 81), Leslie Street resumes its original alignment as the former Second Concession of Markham Township. The former Don Mills Road in York Region is now known as Woodbine Avenue (York Region Road 8). York Regional Municipality, also called York Municipality or York Region, is a municipality in south-central Ontario, between Lake Simcoe and Toronto. ... Leslie Street is a north-south route in Toronto, Ontario. ... This article or section should include material from 407 ETR International Highway 407 as part of the 400-series network Highway 407, officially called 407 ETR, is a pay-per-use freeway located in south-central Ontarios Greater Toronto Area. ... Markham is a town in York Region, directly north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...