Bayview Avenue
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Bayview Avenue is a major north-south route in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The southern end of Bayview Avenue starts at River St (under Queen Street) East near the city’s Lake Ontario waterfront. It runs north past Steeles Avenue, Toronto’s northern city limit, and continues through the suburbs of Toronto.
The Toronto communities that the road passes through are considered to be among the most expensive residential real estate in Toronto and among the most prestigious neighbourhoods in all of Canada. These areas include the intersections at Post Road, Lawrence Avenue, and Steeles Avenue.
Bayview Avenue is also home to major places of worship of almost every major religious tradition including synagogues, an Islamic mosque, the city’s largest evangelical churches, Canada’s largest Buddhist Temple, Toronto’s largest Eastern Orthodox cathedral, and Canada’s only Zoroastrian Temple. These can be found, surprisingly, all within a fifteen kilometer section of the road.
Following World War II, Bayview was extended south from Moore Avenue in Leaside to Front Street via the parallel to the route of the Don Valley Parkway. This addition is frequently referred to as the Bayview Extension. South of Bloor Street, Bayview runs alongside the Canadian National Railway tracks in the Don Valley. This part of Bayview, though only four lanes wide, and at its southernmost tip only two lanes wide, is nevertheless a very quick route from the dowtown to the suburbs due to the absence of residences and businesses along the route and the lack of cross-streets.
Prior to the 1964 extension of the Don Valley Parkway south from Bloor to the Gardiner Expressway, the Bayview Extension was the fastest north-south route from North York to downtown Toronto. The Bayview Extension remains a popular alternate route to the Don Valley Parkway.
[edit] Attractions along Bayview Avenue
(From the south)
- Riverdale Farm
- Necropolis Cemetery
- Prince Edward Viaduct
- Don Valley Brick Works
- Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
- Bob Rumball Centre for the Deaf
- Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre
- Glendon College, York University
- Toronto French School
- The Granite Club
- The Crescent School
- Canadian Film Centre
- Highway 401
- Bayview Village Shopping Centre
- Highway 407
- Oak Ridges, Ontario
[edit] Additional notes
Bayview Avenue may also be referred to as:
York Regional Road 34 
north of Steeles Avenue
| Roads in Toronto, Ontario | ||
|---|---|---|
| North-South streets: | Albion • Avenue • Browns • Bathurst • Bay • Bayview • Birchmount • Bridle Path • Brimley • Broadview • De Grassi • Don Mills • Dufferin • Homewood • Islington • Jane • John • Keele • Kennedy • Kipling • Leslie • Markham • McCaul • McCowan • Morningside • Oakwood • Palmerston • Roncesvalles • Spadina • University • Vaughan • Victoria Park • Warden • Weston • Woodbine • Yonge |
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| East-West streets: | Bloor • Carlton • College • Danforth • Dundas • Eglinton • Ellesmere • Finch • Front • Gerrard • King • Kingston • Lake Shore • Lawrence • Parkwoods Village • Pemberton • Queen West • Queen's Quay • Queensway • Sheppard • St.Clair • Steeles • Wilson • York Mills | |
| Expressways and highways: | 2A • 27 • 400 • 401 • 404 • 427 • Allen Road • Black Creek Drive • Don Valley Parkway • Gardiner | |
| Defunct expressways: | Crosstown • Richview • Spadina Expressway • Scarborough Expressway | |
