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Ionview
Ionview is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the district of Scarborough, Toronto, Scarborough. It is bounded by Birchmount Road to the west, the hydro transmission corridor north of Ranstone Gardens to the north, the CNR railway to the east, and Eglinton Avenue East, Kennedy Road (Toronto), Kennedy Road and the CNR railway to the south. Ionview is contained within the federal and provincial riding of Scarborough Southwest. It is represented by Doly Begum in the Ontario Legislature and Bill Blair (politician), Bill Blair in the Parliament of Canada. The Toronto Police Service's 41 Division is based in the neighbourhood. History Portions of the area comprising modern Ionview were once contained in the former village of Wexford, founded in the 1840s, and Scarborough Junction, established in 1873. The area remained generally rural until the postwar housing boom of the 1940s and 1950s. Ionview is a predominantly working-class neighbourhood, with 63% of the population r ...
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Golden Mile, Toronto
The Golden Mile is a commercial district in the Scarborough, Toronto, Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Situated along Eglinton Avenue East, east of Victoria Park Avenue, it was one of Canada's first model industrial parks. The original Golden Mile of Industry ran along Eglinton from Pharmacy Avenue east to Birchmount Road. The area was farmland prior to World War II with settlement by Scottish people, Scottish immigrants beginning in the 1820s (notably by the likes of the McCowans and Thompsons) and prior to settlements by Europeans in the late 18th century was mostly covered by forests. History In the 1940s, was acquired by the Government of Canada to build munitions plants for Canada's involvement in World War II. In 1941 General Engineering Company of Ontario (GECO) a massive munitions plant was constructed covering the area southeast of Eglinton and Warden. The facility was located in the area, which was then far from the city, to protect against accidental ...
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Scarborough Junction
Scarborough Junction (also known as Kennedy Park) is a small neighbourhood in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bordered by Birchmount Road, Brimley Road, Eglinton Avenue, and St. Clair Avenue. Scarbrough Junction has an approximated population of 20,000. The population consists of 1/4 Caucasian, 2/4 Asian (South and East) and 1/4 other (Black, Latino, etc.) History The first European settlement in the area was the town of Strangford established at what is today the intersection of Victoria Park and St. Clair in 1863. Another small town named Mortlake was established in 1865. The town's main building, the Halfway House Hotel, survives today at Black Creek Pioneer Village where it was moved in 1962. The small farming communities changed when the area became the meeting point of two major railways. The Grand Trunk Railway laid track through the area in 1856 and the Toronto and Nipissing Railway arrived in 1873. The business of the area changed from farm ...
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Eglinton East
Eglinton East, historically known as Knob Hill, is a residential and commercial neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by Stansbury Crescent, Citadel Drive, and West Highland Creek to the north, Midland Avenue to the west, the CNR rail line, Brimley Road, and Eglinton Avenue to the south, and Bellamy Road North to the east. Eglinton East is a working-class neighbourhood with a high percentage of immigration to the area. Sri Lanka has produced the most immigration to the area over the past decade, and correspondingly the most spoken (non-English) language is Tamil. There are many East Indian, Filipino and Jamaican people living in this neighbourhood. While there is an equal number of Chinese, the other figures are above average. Prior to the arrival, Macedonians and Bulgarians dominated the neighborhood, emigrating from Eastern Bloc countries after World War II. The residents of this neighbourhood primarily live in high-rise buildings, with only 22% of people ow ...
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Bendale
Bendale, also called Cedarbrae and Midland Park, is a residential neighbourhood in the eastern part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the former suburb of Scarborough. It is centred on the intersection of Lawrence Avenue East and Brimley Road. Its boundaries, as defined by the City, are Midland Avenue from Lawrence, north to Highway 401, east to McCowan, south to Lawrence, east to West Highland Creek, south-west along West Highland Creek, then follow several side streets parallel to the Creek, north to Midland Avenue. The area north of Ellesmere is typically considered the Scarborough City Centre district, and is not considered in this neighbourhood article. Bendale was shortened from the original name Benlomond in 1881, which was named for Ben Lomond. Description The area is primarily residential. Of the residential dwellings, 39% are single-detached homes and 42% are apartment buildings. The population, as recorded in 2011 was 27,876. The area is ethnically diverse, ...
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Dorset Park
Dorset Park is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the western part of the district of Scarborough. The neighbourhood is bordered by Highway 401 to the north, Midland Avenue to the east, Lawrence Avenue to the south, and Birchmount Road to the west. Kennedy Road runs along the neighbourhood's centre north and south and Ellesmere Road runs along the centre east and west. The area south of Lawrence Avenue, north of the hydro corridor, is known as McGregor Park and is often included as part of Dorset Park. The business district of Scarborough is carried right through the heart of Dorset Park along Kennedy Road from Highway 401 to Lawrence Avenue. The business district along Kennedy Road is a 3.5 kilometre stretch of the road with nothing but stores, businesses and high rise buildings. Kennedy Commons, a large strip mall, is located on Kennedy Road, between Highway 401 and Ellesmere Road. History The area was formerly farmland, with the majority of the ho ...
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Michael Thompson (Canadian Politician)
Michael Thompson is a Canadian politician who has been a Toronto City Council, Toronto city councillor since 2003. He currently represents Ward 21 Scarborough Centre. Early life and education Raised in Scarborough, Toronto, Scarborough, Thompson is a Jamaican Canadian. He completed his public school education from Ionview Public School and Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute, Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate, and completed a Bachelor of Arts at Concordia University in Montreal. Prior to being elected as a city councillor, he worked in the financial services industry, and founded a business services company. Political career He entered local politics in Toronto municipal election 1994, 1994 but was defeated in his attempt to win election to Metro Toronto council by Norm Kelly. In 1998 he became assistant to Councillor Lorenzo Berardinetti. When Berardinetti was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Thompson successfully ran to replace him in the 2003 Toronto mu ...
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Kennedy (TTC)
Kennedy is both a terminal and interchange station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth and Line 3 Scarborough of the Toronto subway system. Opened in 1980, it is located east of the Kennedy Road and Eglinton Avenue intersection. With the adjacent Kennedy GO station on the Stouffville line of GO Transit, Kennedy is an intermodal transit hub and the fifth busiest station in the system, after , , , and , serving a total of approximately customer trips a day. The station's main complex consists of four floors with wheelchair accessible entrances. The ground level is the bus terminal surrounded with ten platforms that serve eleven Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) bus routes. Wi-Fi service is available at this station. Construction to expand the station began in 2017 to add a platform for the future Line 5 Eglinton, which will terminate at the station when its first phase opens in 2023. Further changes to the station are expected to take place during the 2020s as Line 3 is scheduled to b ...
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Eglinton Ravine Park In Ionview
Eglinton can refer to: People * Earl of Eglinton, a title in the Peerage of Scotland *Geoffrey Eglinton (1927–2016), British chemist *Timothy Eglinton, a British biogeoscientist *William Eglinton (1857–1933), a British spiritualist medium and fraud *J.Z. Eglinton, pseudonym of Walter H. Breen Jr. (1928–1993) *John Eglinton, pseudonym of William Kirkpatrick Magee (1868–1961) Places Australia *Eglinton, New South Wales, a suburb of Bathurst *Eglinton, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth Canada Toronto *Eglinton, Ontario, a former village now in Toronto *Eglinton (electoral district), a former federal electoral district *Eglinton (provincial electoral district), a former provincial electoral district *Eglinton Avenue, a main thoroughfare in Toronto *Eglinton Park *Eglinton Theatre *Line 5 Eglinton or Eglinton Crosstown Line, a light rail line under construction **Eglinton Maintenance and Storage Facility, a light-rail facility serving Line 5 Eglinton Canadian Territories ...
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Eglinton Avenue
Eglinton Avenue is a major east–west arterial thoroughfare in Toronto and Mississauga in the Canadian province of Ontario. The street begins at Highway 407 (but does not interchange with the tollway) at the western limits of Mississauga, as a continuation of Lower Baseline in Milton. It traverses the midsection of both cities and ends at Kingston Road. Eglinton Avenue is the only street to cross all six former boroughs of Metropolitan Toronto. The Toronto section was surveyed in the 19th century as the Fourth Concession Road (with the first being Queen Street). It was historically known as Richview Sideroad in Etobicoke and Lower Baseline in Mississauga. It was also designated Highway 5A (and later Highway 109) in Scarborough. History There are two sources for the naming of Eglinton Avenue. Henry Scadding in an early history of the city wrote that it originated from Eglinton Castle in Scotland, itself named for the Earls of Eglinton. Several early settlers, impressed by t ...
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Scarborough RT
Line 3 Scarborough (originally known as the Scarborough RT or SRT) is a light rapid transit line that is part of the Toronto subway system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The line runs entirely within the suburban district of Scarborough, encompassing six stations and of mostly elevated track. It connects with Line 2 Bloor–Danforth at its southwestern terminus, , and terminates in the northeast at . In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Rather than the larger manually operated subway trains used on the other lines in the system, the rolling stock of Line 3 consists of smaller, semi-automated, medium-capacity trains. Designated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) as the S series, these are Intermediate Capacity Transit System (ICTS) Mark I trains built by the Urban Transportation Development Corporation (UTDC). The trains are powered by linear induction motors and operate on tracks, unlike the city's subway lines and the Toronto streetcar system ...
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Toronto Transit Commission Bus System
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) uses buses and other vehicles for public transportation. In 2018, the TTC bus system had 159 bus routes carrying over 264million riders over of routes with buses travelling in the year. , the TTC has 192 bus routes in operation, including 28 night bus routes. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Bus routes extend throughout the city and are integrated with the subway system and the streetcar system, with free transfers among the three systems. Many subway stations are equipped with bus terminals, and a few with streetcar terminals, located within a fare paid area. , the bus system has about 2,100 buses. Bus propulsion includes diesel, diesel-electric hybrid, battery-electric and gasoline. Four bus lengths are used: regular buses long, articulated buses long and minibuses either or long. All buses are fully accessible with low floors and, except for minibuses, all are equipped with bicycle racks. Histor ...
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