Dundas Street showing the 506 Carlton Streetcar (the 505 Dundas Street streetcar also runs along Dundas), with Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in background. This streetcar is destined for High Park. The tall buildings in the background are at the intersections with University Avenue and with Yonge Street, at Dundas Square.

Dundas Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, also known interchangeably as Highway 5 west of Toronto, is a major arterial street which forms a major intersection with Yonge Street where Dundas Square and the Eaton Centre are found. A second major intersection occurs at Spadina Avenue, where Toronto's downtown Chinatown is located. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1232x816, 96 KB)Dundas streetcar with Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in background I captured this picture of the Dundas Street streetcar, just a couple of minutes before the sun set (6:20pm), at a time of year when the sun... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1232x816, 96 KB)Dundas streetcar with Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in background I captured this picture of the Dundas Street streetcar, just a couple of minutes before the sun set (6:20pm), at a time of year when the sun... Looking down upon the Hillside Gardens and Grenadier Pond. ... University Avenue is one of the main north/south roads in downtown Toronto. ... Dundas Square L.E.D. pixelboard showing The Heart of the City on Dundas Square logo. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength City of Toronto, Ontario, Canadas Location. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English, French (in some areas) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 106 24 Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 2nd 1,076,395... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Yonge Street (pronounced young), located in Ontario, Canada, is a major arterial street in Toronto and a provincial highway. ... Dundas Square L.E.D. pixelboard showing The Heart of the City on Dundas Square logo. ... Interior of the Toronto Eaton Centre, looking south. ... Spadina Avenue is one of the most prominent streets in Toronto, Canada. ... The Greater Toronto Area in Ontario, Canada, has at least six Chinatowns — three are located within the citys boundaries, while the other three are located in adjacent suburbs. ...

Downtown centre

Dundas Street is centrally located in downtown Toronto, about midway between Front Street and Bloor Street. It serves as a major east-west thoroughfare for vehicular, transit, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic both downtown and beyond. The introduction of Dundas Square prompted the migration of some of the arts and culture that were traditionally on Queen Street West and on Bloor Street to a point between them, namely to Dundas. Front Street is an east-west street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Bloor Street is a major east-west commercial thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Queen Street West refers to both a major east-west downtown street and a series of neighbourhoods or commercial districts within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

What is considered the focal point of Toronto's large Chinatown is located at the corner of Dundas Street and Spadina Avenue, on the western side of downtown. To the east of downtown, Dundas St. courses past the large Regent Park Co-operative Housing Project. New York City is home to three of the largest Chinatowns in North America. ... Spadina Avenue is one of the most prominent streets in Toronto, Canada. ...

Art on Dundas Street

The main entrance to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is on Dundas Street, where the front steps of the AGO extend almost along the entire city block, forming an important part of the street life on Dundas Street, where people often meet.

Dundas Street is the address of the Art Gallery of Ontario, which takes a full city block on the south side of the street, at the corner of McCaul Street, just west of University Avenue. The street is also home to many other art galleries, including Bau Xi Gallery and Art Square, near the adjacent Chinatown. The main entrance to the AGO The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is an art museum on the eastern edge of Torontos downtown Chinatown district, on Dundas Street West between McCaul Street and Beverley Street. ... University Avenue is one of the main north/south roads in downtown Toronto. ... New York City is home to three of the largest Chinatowns in North America. ...

Highway 5

While this route alignment in Toronto was along Danforth Avenue and Bloor Street, Dundas Street became the former Ontario Provincial Highway 5 in Etobicoke, west of the former village of Islington, at Kipling Avenue, known as the Six Points. Westward this route passed through Mississauga, Oakville, Burlington, extending across Ontario through St. George, Ontario, and ending in Paris, Ontario, with the junction of the former Ontario Provincial Highway 2, that proceeds west through Woodstock, and London, Ontario. Danforth Avenue is a east-west route in east Toronto. ... Etobicoke (pronounced ) is the western portion of the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that has a population of about 350,000. ... Kipling Avenue is a Toronto street, named for Rudyard Kipling, who may or may not have been travelling through on the road to Woodbridge, Ontario. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Pride in our past, Faith in our future City of Mississauga, Ontario, Canadas Location. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Avancez (from French meaning Advance). Town of Oakville, Ontario, Canadas Location. ... Burlington (2001 population 150,836)[1] is located in the Golden Horseshoe, across the Lake Ontario and Burlington Bay harbour from Hamilton, in Halton Region, Ontario, Canada. ... Satellite image of Paris taken in the spring of 2000. ... Highway 2 was the major east-west provincial highway in Southern Ontario, running from Windsor in the west to the Lancaster in the east and joining together the towns and cities of the western two thirds of the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. ... Woodstock (2001 population 33,061) is a city and county seat of Oxford County in southwestern Ontario, Canada, located 80 miles southwest of Toronto, north off the 401. ... Nickname: The Forest City City of London, Ontario, Canadas Location. ...

In Toronto, Dundas Street is divided between Dundas Street East and Dundas Street West by Yonge Street, the east/west dividing line for all Toronto streets.

History

Dundas Street is named after its onetime destination, the town of Dundas, Ontario. The town itself was named for Henry Dundas - Viscount Melville, British Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1791 to 1801. In the early 19th century when Toronto's oldest streets were first named, Dundas was an important settlement in its own right, rather than simply a suburb of Hamilton, as it has since become. In the 20th century, for purposes of efficiency, Highway 5 was redirected, just west of the former village of Waterdown, Ontario and no longer passes through the town of Dundas, which was also located on the lower side of the Niagara Escarpment. Dundas, Ontario, Canada, held a town charter between 1848 and 2001. ... Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (April 28, 1742 - May 28, 1811) was a British statesman. ... Motto: Together Aspire - Together Achieve Area: 1,117. ... Waterdown was a town in Canada which since 2001 has been a community of Hamilton, Ontario. ... Rattlesnake Point near Milton, Ontario. ...

Parts of the current day Dundas Street had different names (Arthur, Agnes, St Patrick, Crookshank, Wilton, and Beech), but they were amalgamted in the early 20th Century to form the current road. Dundas Street showing the 506 Carlton Streetcar (the 505 Dundas Street streetcar also runs along Dundas), with Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in background. ...

Immigrant communities have sprung up along its route within Toronto and some still exist today just to name a few; Kensington Market was home to Toronto's first Jewish community; vibrant Chinatown nearby (at Spadina Road) continues to expand; Brockton Village (at Dovercourt Rd.) became a west end destination for the immigrant Irish community in the mid-19th century, later on and still today the same area was settled by Portuguese and Brazilians, so much so one stretch of Dundas is aptly named "Rua Açores"; The Junction area attracted many immigrant labourers from the British Isles, Southern and Eastern Europe due to its proximity to railways, meat packing and other heavy industries which sprouted up there in the late 19th century. Kensington market in downtown Toronto Kensington Market is one of the most famous neighbourhoods in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... The Greater Toronto Area in Ontario, Canada, has at least six Chinatowns — three are located within the citys boundaries, while the other three are located in adjacent suburbs. ... The Junction, or West Toronto, is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that derives its name from a junction of four railway lines in the area. ...

Dundas Street's route through the city of Toronto is irregular, ignoring the general east-west axis of the city's streets once it is west of Dufferin Street. It meanders northwards towards Bloor Street, crossing it at Roncesvalles Avenue, heading north through The Junction neighbourhood (at Keele Street) until it reaches High Park Avenue, where it once again turns south to meet Bloor Street again at Kipling Avenue. However, this route allows the street to traverse the west end of the city while avoiding obstacles that would have been expensive to cross in the 18th century, such as Grenadier Pond in what is now High Park, and the highest point of the Humber River valley (Bloor Street to the south requires a high bridge to cross the river at that point). Dufferin Street is a north-south route in Toronto. ... Bloor Street is a major east-west commercial thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Roncesvalles Avenue is a lesser known major street in Torontos west end. ... The Junction, or West Toronto, is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that derives its name from a junction of four railway lines in the area. ... Keele Street - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Kipling Avenue is a Toronto street, named for Rudyard Kipling, who may or may not have been travelling through on the road to Woodbridge, Ontario. ... Looking down upon the Hillside Gardens and Grenadier Pond. ... The Humber, as seen from a point near the northern border of Toronto. ...

The Dundas Street streetcar

Streetcars run along Dundas Street, on two parallel pairs of tracks built in the same lanes used by car traffic. Two 600 volt direct current overhead cables supply the electrical power to the streetcars. The 505 Dundas streetcar line runs from Dundas West station in the west, along Dundas Street where passengers can interchange with the Yonge-University-Spadina line at St. Patrick station and Dundas station, and north on Broadview Avenue, ending at Broadview station in the east. A CLRV streetcar, used on most of the TTCs streetcar routes, is seen here in downtown Toronto. ... Dundas Street showing the 506 Carlton Streetcar (the 505 Dundas Street streetcar also runs along Dundas), with Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in background. ... Direct current (DC or continuous current) is the continuous flow of electricity through a conductor such as a wire from high to low potential. ... Dundas West is a station on the Bloor-Danforth Line of the Toronto subway. ... The Yonge-University-Spadina Line is the oldest subway line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... St. ... Dundas is a station on the Yonge-University Spadina line of the Toronto subway. ... Broadview Avenue is a street in east end Toronto and travels along the east side of the Don River. ... Broadview is a station on the Bloor-Danforth Line of the Toronto subway. ...

See also

• Bathurst Street
• King Street

Bathurst Street is a north south thoroughfare in the city of Toronto, Ontario and into York Region. ... King Street is a major east-west commercial thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

Reference

• Dundas Street and Dundas, Ontario

• Queen Street