Yonge Street

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Famously known as “the longest street in the world” – until 1999, that is – Yonge Street is Toronto’s main artery, linking Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe.[1] Until 1998, the Guinness Book of World Records held Yonge as the longest street in the world until this was pointed out, and it has since been removed. The idea that Yonge was the longest street in the world came from what seemed to be a continuation of Yonge on Highway 11. If Yonge and Highway 11 were one and the same, the road would be more than 1800 kilometers long.[2]

Yonge Street was initially surveyed and cleared by the Queen’s Rangers under orders from Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe who recognized the military and commercial need for an overland route into the interior of the province. From its initial survey in the early 1800s until 1833, Yonge Street served as a rudimentary connection. ). In 1833, the government of Upper Canada made funds available to undertake the macadamization—an early form of asphalt paving—of Yonge Street (Statutes of Upper Canada, 3 William IV c. 37; 6 William IV c. 30; 7 William IV c. 76; 3 Victoria c. 53 sub. 57; Scadding 1873:388). Yonge Street was one of the first roads within Toronto to receive any kind of government-funded improvement. 1833 thus marks the first of a series of government-funded initiatives to improve Yonge Street and facilitate its use as a key north-south transportation route into and out of the city, as well as within it.[3]

References

  1. Yonge Street through the years. yongelove.ca. Retrieved Feb 14, 2021.
  2. mattsexsmith. WE ARE YONGE: EXPLORING 225 YEARS OF HISTORY ON ONTARIO'S OLDEST YONGE ST. Dec 4, 2018. gh360.ca. Retrieved Feb 14, 2021.
  3. Historic Yonge Street Heritage Conservation District Study. Jan, 2016. PDF. Retrieved Feb 14, 2021.