The story behind Toronto street names Toronto
The meaning of Toronto street names often comes to mind when my subway train pulls into the station, and I make up stories about the scenery above my head as if I'm Bill Bryson writing his bookAt Pape there's a community of solemn Catholic nuns; at Donlands I imagine vast grass plains inhabited by the wild Don tribe. Greenwood, my stop, is buried below an beautiful but treacherous forest of towering pines.
Named in 1797 for the young Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, later the wife of King William IV, Adelaide Street has been extended several times east and west consuming lesser streets in its path. The capital of South Australia was also named for Princess Adelaide in 1836.that Avenue Road was named by Scottish construction workers who, arriving at the site, proclaimed"let's 'ave a new road here".
Designed to entice people to settle in the new town of York, the narrow, deep lots provided ample space for a villa with a waterfront view. A total of 32 rectangular properties from the Don River west to roughly Lansdowne were marked out for purchase.
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