Bayview Avenue
Bayview Avenue is a major north-south route in
Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
The southern end of Bayview Avenue starts at
Front 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
Richmond Hill,
Oak Ridges, and as far north as
Newmarket.
The Toronto and suburban 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 Bayview Extension, parallel to the route of the
Don Valley Parkway. 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.
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Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre*
Glendon College,
York University*
Bayview Village Shopping Centre
*Bob Rumble Centre for the Deaf
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The Crescent School*
Toronto French School*The Granite Club
North of
Steeles Avenue, Bayview is also referred to as
York Regional Road 34.
