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91-662: Highway   10 was established in 1920 as one of the original provincial highways in Ontario, connecting Highway 5 in Cooksville with Owen Sound. It was extended south by 1937 to Highway 2 in Port Credit . That same year, it became the site of the first highway interchange in Canada at its intersection with The Middle Road . Since the late 1990s, the southern portion has been truncated to its current terminus north of

182-482: A project to extend Dundas eastwards from Broadview to Kingston Road as a new four-lane traffic arterial in order to provide an alternative east–west route to Gerrard and Queen. From west to east, Crawford Street, Elliot Street, Whitby Street, Dickens, Dagmar, Doel, Applegrove and Ashbridge Avenues as well as Maughan Crescent and Hemlock Avenue were all cleared and widened. In some cases, alleyways were used to connect these nine separate streets. In Toronto, Dundas Street

273-564: A roundabout as the ideal replacement, with traffic signals at the two intersections with Westover Road (former Highway 52 ). Construction began in the spring of 2012, and the C$ 6.3 million roundabout was opened on September   25, 2012. The following table lists the major junctions along Highway 5, as noted by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario .   Dundas Street Dundas Street ( / ˈ d ʌ n ˌ d æ s / )

364-421: A 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) segment of Dundas Street, from the interchange with Highway   403 east to Winston Churchill Boulevard, was made a connecting link through the municipal boundary area between Mississauga and Oakville, and maintenance was transferred to these municipalities. As the connecting links were technically still part of Highway   5, shields continued to be posted along it and marked on

455-573: A 1.9-kilometre (1.2 mi) portion at Highway   427. In July 2001, a new interchange with Highway 407 ETR was opened, connecting the extension of the toll highway with former Highway   5 in Burlington. An operational and safety review of the three intersections at Peters Corners near Hamilton was undertaken in February 2001. Studies, including an environmental assessment were conducted between 2004 and 2009, and settled upon

546-641: A 400-metre (440 yd) portion at the Highway   403 interchange on the Oakville–Mississauga boundary, and a 1.9-kilometre (1.2 mi) portion at the Highway   427 interchange in Toronto. Dundas Street is one of the oldest roads in Ontario, created before Confederation when the province was known as Upper Canada (a reference to being upstream from Lower Canada on the St. Lawrence River ). Under

637-562: A World Biosphere Reserve. South of the escarpment, at the western tip of Lake Ontario , is the Dundas district of Hamilton, which was once a separate town within the former Hamilton-Wentworth Region . It is 12.5 kilometres (7.8 mi) between Peters Corners and Clappison's Corners. Highway   5 begins at a roundabout at the southern end of Highway   8 and the northern end of former Highway 52 in Peters Corners. To

728-450: A bypass around Orangeville was completed, bypassing Broadway and the short sections of both Hurontario and First Streets through the town. As Mississauga was established in 1968 from Toronto Township (which included Cooksville), and later Port Credit, and began to rapidly urbanize and as Brampton grew during the same period, portions of Highway   10 were designated as connecting links and transferred to municipal maintenance through

819-634: A distance of 114.3 km (71.0 mi). Highway   5 followed a significant piece of Dundas Street (historically also called The Governor's Road ), one of two routes constructed under the orders of John Graves Simcoe during his short tenure as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada , the other being Yonge Street . The route was designated as part of the provincial highway system in 1920 and numbered as Highway   5 in 1925. Initially it travelled from Toronto to Clappison's Corners before turning south and following what would later become Highway   6 south through Hamilton and onwards to Jarvis . It

910-667: A four-lane rural route with a centre turn lane . The highway presses north-northwest through farmland and rises gradually over the Niagara Escarpment , a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve . To the west are the Forks of the Credit , a deep glacial ravine and provincial park renowned for its scenery. It passes between several large quarries and through Caledon Village before entering Orangeville at Highway 9 , where it diverges from Hurontario Street. Highway   10 passes to

1001-474: A local arterial road through the growing suburbs of Oakville and Burlington, Highway   5 was downloaded from Highway   6 at Clappison's Corners to Highway   403, and transferred to the Regional Municipalities of Hamilton–Wentworth and Halton on January   1, 1998. On the same day, the portions of the route west of Peters Corners were transferred to Hamilton–Wentworth and

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1092-582: A major east–west thoroughfare for vehicular, transit, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic downtown and beyond. Since the building of the Eaton Centre and the Yonge-Dundas Square, the intersection of Yonge and Dundas Streets has become one of the busiest intersections in the city. It is estimated that over 56 million people pass this intersection each year. To ease traffic, a pedestrian scramble has been installed. Northeast of Yonge and Dundas

1183-443: A rural residential area and returns to a farmland setting. It passes through the rural hamlet of Rock Chapel , and then curves to the left on its final approach to Highway   6. East of Highway   6, the road continues as the eastern section of Hamilton Road   5, and becomes Dundas Street. The MTO still maintains a 1.1-kilometre (0.68 mi) portion of Dundas Street at the Highway   407 interchange in Burlington,

1274-460: Is a major historic arterial road in Ontario , Canada. The road connects the city of Toronto with its western suburbs and several cities in southwestern Ontario . Three provincial highways— 2 , 5 , and 99 —followed long sections of its course, although these highway segments have since been downloaded to the municipalities they passed through. Originally intended as a military route to connect

1365-561: Is a six-lane arterial road, and began to follow the former Highway 5 (which ran along the more direct Bloor east of that point). West of Cloverdale Mall , Dundas Street meets Highway 427 at a parclo interchange. Upon crossing the Toronto boundary at Etobicoke Creek , the street enters Mississauga , in the Peel Region and follows a southwestern heading. It then enters Halton Region and passes through Oakville and Burlington , and then Waterdown (a part of Hamilton ). It leaves

1456-539: Is planned to run from Kipling Bus Terminal, which connects to Line 2 Bloor–Danforth in Etobicoke , Toronto to Highway 6 in Waterdown, Hamilton. The project is part of the regional transportation plan The Big Move . Amid the protests following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, over 10,000 people signed a petition calling for the city to rename Dundas Street, due to Henry Dundas's "involvement in supporting

1547-603: Is served by the MiWay bus routes 1 and 101/101A starting from the Kipling Bus Terminal next to Kipling station. In Oakville, the Oakville Transit bus route 24 runs on Dundas street between the border with Mississauga and Trafalgar Road and by bus route 5/5A between Trafalgar and Highway 407 . In Burlington, Dundas Street has no dedicated transit route and only has transit service until Guelph Line with

1638-557: Is served by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) 505 Dundas between Broadview Avenue and its eastern intersection with Bloor Street at Dundas West station . Between Dundas West station and just after its second intersection with Bloor Street at Kipling station it is served by the TTC bus route 40 Junction-Dundas West bus. Beyond Kipling station, it is served by various TTC bus routes. Through Mississauga, it

1729-514: Is the Ryerson University campus. To the east of downtown, Dundas travels through the older Cabbagetown neighbourhood, and the large Regent Park public housing project fills the block south of Dundas between Parliament Street and River Street. The Dundas and Bay Street area, west to University Avenue, has been developing into a Little Tokyo district. It was previously the location of Toronto's original Chinatown . Dundas Street

1820-494: Is the address of the Art Gallery of Ontario, which takes a full city block on the south side of the street, at the corner of McCaul Street, just west of University Avenue . The north side of the street between McCaul and Beverley is also home to several private art galleries. Just to the south of Dundas on McCaul is OCAD University. Dundas Street was developed in different time periods and in different sections. The section of

1911-590: The Brampton – Caledon border. Highway   10 begins at the northern end of Highway   410 in Caledon, immediately north of Brampton. It follows Hurontario Street, a route originally carved through the virgin forests of Upper Canada in 1848. Like the pioneer route it supplanted, the modern highway still divides many of the towns it serves. Within the Regional Municipality of Peel it acts as

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2002-559: The Burlington Transit bus routes 2, 3, 6, and 11 and Oakville Transit bus route 24 all providing service along different sections of the street. In Hamilton, Dundas Street is served by the Hamilton Street Railway bus route 18 through Waterdown . The Dundas Street bus rapid transit (Dundas BRT) is a proposed bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor proposed by Metrolinx that would run along Dundas Street. It

2093-571: The CP Rail line through the mixed industrial-residential district. At Scarlett Road, the route veers southwest toward a high crossing over the Humber River valley , through the former village of Lambton Mills . Beyond the river, Dundas serves as the northern boundary of the Kingsway residential district. Passing the historic St. George's Church-on-the-Hill, Dundas again heads southwest toward

2184-522: The County of Brant . This removed 53.3 kilometres (33.1 mi) from the length of the highway, leaving only the portion between Peters Corners and Clappison's Corners in the provincial highway network. Nonetheless the MTO continues to maintain short segments of Dundas Street (former Highway 5) at interchanges with provincial freeways, including a 400-metre (440 yd) portion at Highway   403, as well as

2275-626: The Dundas Highway and Governor's Road , is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario . The east–west highway travels a distance of 12.7 km (7.9 mi) between Highway 8 at Peters Corners , north of Hamilton , and Highway 6 at Clappison's Corners . Prior to several sections being downloaded to the municipalities in which they were located, Highway   5 served as bypass to Highway 2 , connecting with it in both Paris and Toronto ,

2366-705: The Queen Elizabeth Way at Ford Drive in mid-1981; the freeway was extended north to Erin Mills Parkway on November   17th of that year. Following the creation of Metropolitan Toronto on April 15, 1953, the new municipality was given responsibility for most of the provincial highways that passed within its boundaries that were not already connecting links following streets urbanized prior to this time. The sections of Highway   5 through Etobicoke and Scarborough were accordingly redesignated as connecting links and their maintenance given over to

2457-469: The 1960s, beginning with the section between Highway   10 at Cooksville and Mississauga Road in 1961. In the late 1970s, construction began on Highway   403 through Mississauga. As part of this new freeway , an interchange with Highway   5 was built just east of Ninth Line, on the Oakville –Mississauga boundary. The interchange opened along with the segment of Highway   403 south to

2548-481: The 1990s, the provincially-maintained route only extended as far east as Highway 403 ; it was shortened to its present length in 1998. Highway   5 serves as a short connector between Highway   8 in the west and Highway   6 in the east, and is essentially a continuation of Highway   8. This configuration comes as a result of the truncation of both highways by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO). The removed sections were transferred to

2639-547: The DHO began a project to widen Kingston Road to a dual highway in the mid 1930s, which would ultimately result in the construction of the first segment of Highway 401 . This construction began at the intersection of Highway   2 and Highway   5 and proceeded northwest. At the intersection of the two highways, the DHO constructed a new grade-separation around the Scarborough Cenotaph beginning in 1936.

2730-528: The DPHO assumes the portion within Grey County on October   6. It was later extended south from Cooksville when the provincial government assumed the remaining stretch to Lakeshore Road ( Highway 2 ) in Port Credit , on the north shore of Lake Ontario , on March   16, 1921. Until the mid-1920s, highways in Ontario were named rather than numbered. The 166-kilometre (103 mi) Sydenham Highway

2821-534: The DPHO constructed a new railway overpass and extended the route to Kingston Road, opening in 1925. Within Wentworth County, the construction of the Clappison Cut through the Niagara Escarpment was underway by 1921, with the aim of bypassing the winding old route that is known today as Old Guelph Road. The new route, which travelled straight along the boundary between East and West Flamboro ,

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2912-662: The Department of Public Highways (DPHO) established a network of provincial highways on February   26, 1920. Portions of the network were then assumed by the DPHO over the following year. The section of Highway   10 within Dufferin County between Orangeville and Dundalk was taken over on July   8, 1920. This was followed several weeks later by the portion within Peel County (now Peel Region ) between Cooksville and Orangeville on July   22. Finally,

3003-478: The Humber opened in 1957 (repaired in 1973 and 2009) to replace the 1907 iron trestle that lost approaches on both ends during Hurricane Hazel in 1954 and resulted in the old bridge being demolished in 1955. An 1800 map shows Dundas connecting with the newly built Yonge Street, although the map does not show the route of this section within Toronto with any detail. An 1816 map of York shows a "Burlington Road", which

3094-504: The Official Ontario Road Map through Mississauga and Metropolitan Toronto up until 1998 when the highway designation was dropped altogether As part of a series of budget cuts initiated by premier Mike Harris under his Common Sense Revolution platform in 1995, numerous highways deemed to no longer be of significance to the provincial network were downloaded to a lower level of government. As it generally served as

3185-593: The TTC's 505 Dundas streetcar route serves the street from Riverdale to the Junction . Following controversy over the namesake of the street, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville , in delaying the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade , Toronto City Council voted in 2021 to rename the section of the street within Toronto – with other municipalities reviewing their use of the name. The route of Dundas Street through

3276-554: The Toronto city limits. When the Hamilton–Jarvis Highway and Dundas Street were assumed by the province, they were paved from Islington village west to Summerville (near Dixie Road), but were otherwise gravel throughout. The route was paved between Mount Hope and Hamilton, between Sixteen Mile Creek and Summerville, as well as along Bloor Street from Islington village to Jane Street in 1921. New bridges were also completed over Sixteen Mile Creek and Mimico Creek . In 1923,

3367-707: The abolition of the slave trade" and that this conflicts with "the values of equity and inclusion" of the city. The city's process also sparked reviews of the use of the Dundas name in other areas of the province, including Mississauga, London and Hamilton. On July 6, 2021, the City of Toronto's executive committee unanimously supported the renaming of Dundas Street. During public deputations, former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson stated that "the name of Dundas has no relevance to Canada ... he has no connection to Toronto". On July 14, Toronto City Council voted 17–7 to rename

3458-510: The city of Toronto is irregular. The street, as laid out today, is made up of what were originally several smaller named streets. Proceeding west through central Toronto, Dundas Street East originates near the Beaches neighbourhood at Kingston Road , itself a historic route to eastern Lake Ontario and the town of Kingston . Originally, the street began at today's Queen and Ossington intersection, and incorporated today's Ossington Street north to

3549-758: The community of Rockford . Highway   10 ends at 10th Street East, where it meets the western terminus of Highway 26 as well as the northern terminus of Highway 21 . Highway   6 continues northwest, concurrent with Highway   21 through Owen Sound. Historically, Highway 10 follows the 19th-century stagecoach route known as the Toronto–Sydenham Road (the southern half of which later became absorbed into Hurontario Street). It travelled north from Dundas Street (later Highway 5 ) in Cooksville through Brampton, Orangeville and Shelburne to Owen Sound. In order to be eligible for federal funding,

3640-612: The current Dundas intersection, then proceeded west along the route still used today. Crossing the lower reaches of the Don River west of Broadview Avenue , Dundas serves as one of the few arterial roads connecting the central city to the city's original eastern suburbs . At Yonge Street , Dundas passes Yonge-Dundas Square , within sight of downtown landmarks such as the Eaton Centre and Toronto Metropolitan University . Designated Dundas Street West from this point westward,

3731-407: The distance between Orangeville and Shelburne. At the hamlet of Primrose, Highway   10 turns west and becomes concurrent with Highway 89 into the town of Shelburne. The concurrency ends in the centre of Shelburne, as Highway   10 branches north. From Shelburne to Owen Sound, the road follows the northernmost part of the former Toronto–Sydenham Road, a colonization road that predates

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3822-475: The division of the land in the area. As such, the road follows a diagonal path relative to the survey grid . While it generally passes through farmland, it also bisects the communities of Melancthon , Corbetton , Dundalk , Flesherton —where it meets a former portion of Highway 4 — Markdale , Mount Pleasant , Berkeley and Arnott before meeting Highway 6 at Chatsworth. The two highways travel north for approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) through

3913-423: The east of Orangeville on a bypass , switching between Hurontario Street and Prince of Wales Road alignments to avoid the business district. At the north end of the bypass, the highway curves and proceeds northward. It narrows to four lanes immediately north of Orangeville and then to two lanes north of Camilla , which along with Elba is one of two communities interspersed among the farmland that otherwise occupies

4004-537: The east to Kensington Avenue in the west) having street signs in Chinese as 登打士街, which is the same as Dundas Street in the Kowloon Peninsula of Hong Kong. West of Ossington Avenue , it meanders northwards towards Bloor Street near the intersection of Roncesvalles Avenue , heading north toward the Junction district at Keele Street . Proceeding due west from Keele through the Junction, Dundas parallels

4095-576: The entire length between Peters Corners and Clappison's Corners in 1928. When the province assumed the remainder of the route to Paris, it began paving the highway west from Peters Corners. Paving was completed for 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to Troy in 1930 and 1931; another 10   km were completed from Troy to Highway   24 in 1932, including a railway underpass at St. George . The final 6.8 kilometres (4.2 mi) east from Paris to Highway   24 were paved in 1933. Within Scarborough,

4186-460: The entire length of former Hwy. 99 west to Osborne Corners where it follows former Highway 5 again to Paris , where it joined former Highway 2 and picks up the name Dundas again. Through most of Paris, Highway 2 bypasses it as it becomes a broken residential street, but rejoins it to follow King Edward Street. The name again resumes west of Paris as the street proceeds west along the former highway through Woodstock en route to London . In London,

4277-432: The event of an invasion. This new section of the street to York was detached from the section from London to Dundas. Instead, the two sections were connected by York Road, which traversed the section of the Niagara Escarpment between them along the path of modern day York Road, Valley Road, and Patterson Road. Beyond York, Dundas Street was extended further eastwards as a part of what later became Highway 2. In York,

4368-604: The following year, including two portions on the outskirts of Toronto. On March   16, 3.9 kilometres (2.4 mi) of Dundas Street, between Islington Village (at the modern corners of Dundas, Bloor and Kipling) and the Toronto city limits at Jane Street were assumed by the DPHO. On September   14, another 3.7 kilometres (2.3 mi) of road were assumed along Danforth Avenue, from Sibley Avenue to Kingston Road, via Pinegrove Avenue and Highview Avenue; Danforth Avenue did not continue east of Warden Avenue at this time, and so

4459-479: The former Highway 5 alignment (which continues west as a still-provincially maintained highway through rural Brant County ) west of Highway 6 in Waterdown, and resumes to the south in its namesake former town Dundas (today also part of Hamilton) and follows the former Highway 99 (now Hamilton Road 99 ) and assumes its alternate name, Governors Road, after crossing Main Street (the original Highway 8 ). It follows

4550-553: The former village of Islington . This route traverses the west end of the city, avoiding obstacles that were expensive to negotiate in the 18th century, such as Grenadier Pond in what is now High Park and the highest point of the Humber Valley (Bloor Street to the south requires a high bridge to cross the river at that point). Dundas intersects for a second time with Bloor Street at Kipling Avenue in Etobicoke. In 1961,

4641-530: The gradual abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire in the 18th century" as opposed to immediate abolition. On June 10, 2020 , Mayor John Tory stated that a working group would be formed "to examine the issue of renaming streets in a broader sense". The city's final report, published in June 2021, supported renaming the street, concluding that Dundas "played an instrumental role in delaying

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4732-424: The highway designation dropped altogether through those cities, shortening the highway to its present length. In 2009, a major project to widen two-lane sections of the southern portions of the highway was completed, and the highway is now four lanes wide from Highway 410 north to Camilla. From Shelburne north to Owen Sound, it remains a two-lane highway with several passing lanes in hillier regions. During winter,

4823-683: The highway having a continuous pavement from Port Credit to Dundalk. Pavement was laid in and near the villages of Flesherton and Markdale in 1931, and between Dundalk and Markdale in 1934. The pavement was extended from Markdale to Berkeley in 1936, leaving an approximately 17-kilometre (11 mi) gap between Berkeley and Chatsworth. This final gravel section was graded and paved in 1937 and 1938. Highway   10 initially entered Owen Sound along 9th Avenue East, before turning west onto 6th Street East, then north along 2nd Avenue East to Highway   21 and Highway   26 at 10th Avenue East. The official Ontario road maps published between 1947 and 1967 show

4914-432: The intersection of Dundas Street was also known as Dundas. At the time, the district along Dundas was not cleared. Montgomery's Inn was built on Dundas Street in 1830 for travellers along this route and also became a center of neighbourhood business in the village of Islington. It stands today, operated as a museum by the City of Toronto. From Ossington Avenue to the east, Dundas was pieced together from various streets. In

5005-434: The intersection was rebuilt into a highway-type interchange, with an overpass over Kipling. The City of Toronto demolished the interchange and replaced it with a new at-grade intersection. A new routing of Dundas Street to the south of the former interchange was opened in February 2019, connecting via Dunbloor Road (which was rechristened to be a part of Dundas for continuity) to the section east of Kipling. From Kipling, Dundas

5096-462: The intersection with Victoria Street and chopping a section off of 171 Victoria Street (the former home of Egerton Ryerson ) and renumbering it as 38–40 Dundas Street East. East of the Don, various streets were connected by jogs in the 20th century to form the current road. From the 1920s until the 1940s, Dundas Street terminated at Broadview Avenue in the east. In the 1950s, the city of Toronto implemented

5187-413: The jurisdiction of the City of Toronto , the City of Mississauga , Halton Region , the City of Hamilton , the County of Brant , and Oxford County on January   1, 1998. Prior, Highway   5 followed two segments of Dundas Street between Toronto and Paris. The current route of Highway   5 is almost entirely straight and rural. It passes immediately to the north of the Niagara Escarpment ,

5278-491: The latter half of the 19th century, Arthur Street was connected from Ossington Avenue and Dundas Street to Bathurst Street along the current alignment of Dundas. St. Patrick Street, the portion of today's Dundas from Bathurst Street to (east of McCaul Street it was called Anderson Street) College Avenue (now University Avenue) bisected the Grange estate in 1877. The section from College Avenue (now University Avenue) to Yonge Street

5369-556: The major cities they connected. What would become Provincial Highway   5 during the summer of 1925 was initially known as the Hamilton–Jarvis Highway and the Dundas Highway. Throughout the summer of 1920, several roads were taken over by the DPHO through Haldimand County , Wentworth County , Halton County , Peel County and York County . Within Haldimand County, the road between Jarvis and north of Caledonia

5460-480: The meridian of the concession road system, with parallel sidelines described as being east or west of Hurontario (EHS and WHS, respectively) and perpendicular concession roads divided into eastern and western segments. Passing to the west of Valleywood, a suburban community on the fringe of the Greater Toronto Area , Highway   10 begins as Highway   410 transitions from a divided freeway to

5551-482: The mid-19th century. This district was later settled by emigrants from Portugal and Brazil and bears the name "Rua Açores" . The Junction attracted many immigrant labourers from Ireland , Britain , and Southern and Eastern Europe due to its proximity to railways and heavy industry, such as meatpacking, which sprouted up there in the late 19th century. Dundas Street is centrally located in downtown Toronto, about midway between Front Street and Bloor Street. It serves as

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5642-521: The new Metro government on January   15, 1954. A 12.1-kilometre (7.5 mi) portion of Highway   5 from Etobicoke Creek west to Mississauga Road was made a connecting link though the recently-established Town of Mississauga on April   1, 1970. Another 2.8 kilometres (1.7 mi), between Winston Churchill Boulevard and Mississauga Road in Mississauga, was designated a connecting link on November   22, 1978. on November 27, 1991,

5733-420: The northern stretches of the highway that pass through the snowbelt region of Grey County are subject to poor visibility and road closings during windy conditions or winter storms. The following table lists the major junctions along Highway 10, as noted by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario .  Ontario Highway 5 King's Highway 5 , commonly referred to as Highway 5 and historically as

5824-509: The old route along Old Mill Road and Old Mill Drive. The bridge was opened ceremoniously by then Minister of Highways—and later premier — George Stewart Henry on November   21, 1924. When the portion of Highway   5 west of Clappison's Corners was assumed in 1927, it was already paved as far west as the Brock Road, approximately 7 kilometres (4.3 mi). However, the DPHO paved

5915-640: The orders of the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada , John Graves Simcoe , Captain Samuel Smith led 100 of the Queen's Rangers to open a road from the head of Lake Ontario (now known as Dundas) to La Tranche (later London ) in early 1791. The first 32 kilometres (20 mi) from the lakehead to the Grand River —where the Mohawk village that was home to Joseph Brant was located—were blazed by

6006-420: The overpass, carrying eastbound traffic from Danforth Avenue onto eastbound Kingston Road, was completed in 1938, though landscaping continued into 1939. This junction remains in place today, almost unchanged since then. As suburbanization of Toronto encroached on Toronto Township —which would become the town of Mississauga in 1968—the DHO began to widen Highway   5 to four lanes across Peel and Halton in

6097-549: The rangers by October   25, 1793. Another 75 kilometres (47 mi) were cleared from the Grand River to the forks of the Thames River by the spring of 1794. In 1795, Asa Danforth , the namesake of Danforth Avenue , opened a road east to the new town of York (now Toronto). These early trails "involved nothing more than clearing a corridor through the bush, leaving the bigger stumps to rot, often detouring around

6188-478: The really big trees." The nature of travel in this period meant that daily movement was limited to several miles, and as a result hotels and taverns were established every few miles. Several of these became the seeds of villages, such as Waterdown , Cooksville and Islington . When the Department of Public Highways of Ontario (DPHO) began taking over the responsibility of roads in 1917, it did not assign route numbers. Highways were instead initially referred to by

6279-407: The remainder of the route between Sixteen Mile Creek and Hamilton, including the new Clappison Cut, was paved. This was followed the next year by the construction of a water-bound macadam surface between Jarvis and Caledonia, completing the hard-surfaced road between Jarvis and Hamilton. That year also saw the completion of a new high-level bridge along Bloor Street over the Humber River , bypassing

6370-482: The road ended at the Humber River at Old Mill Road, following the path of today's Bloor Street within Etobicoke . A bridge was built in 1811 to cross the Humber, followed by a series of other bridges over the years. Dundas was re-routed in 1928, which resulted in what is now Old Dundas Street on either side of the Humber. The western section of Old Dundas Street becomes Home Smith Park Road. The current bridge over

6461-520: The route following 3rd Avenue East instead of 2nd Avenue East. Beginning in 1968, the combined highways followed 9th Avenue East directly to 10th Street East, as they do today. Within Orangeville, Highway   10 formerly turned west onto Highway 9 and ran concurrently with it through downtown along Broadway, then turned north to follow First Street (the Prince of Wales Road alignment). In mid-1971,

6552-514: The route of Highway   5 south to Jarvis. The route was extended further west in 1930, when the newly-renamed Department of Highways (DHO) assumed the road from Highway   8 at Peters Corners to Highway   24 west of St. George , as well as the Governor's Road between Highway   24 and Highway   2 at Paris. The 19.0-kilometre (11.8 mi) road between Highway   8 and Highway   24, through Beverley and South Dumfries

6643-619: The route passes to the north of City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square . At McCaul Street , the road fronts the Art Gallery of Ontario in proximity to some of the city's institutions of higher learning, including OCAD University , Michener Institute , and the University of Toronto . At Spadina Avenue , Dundas serves as the east–west axis of the city's largest Chinatown , with the Chinatown sections of Dundas (from Beverly Street in

6734-494: The section between Hamilton and Paris still bears that name, albeit without an apostrophe. Dundas Street is also one of the few east-west routes to run uninterrupted through the central and western Greater Toronto Area, from Toronto to Hamilton (the others are Lake Shore Boulevard / Lakeshore Road , Eglinton Avenue , Steeles Avenue /Taunton Road, Queen Street ( Brampton )/ Highway 7 , and Bovaird Drive /Castlemore Road/ Rutherford Road /Carrville Road/16th Avenue). Within Toronto,

6825-445: The shipping port of York (now Toronto) to the envisioned future capital of London, Ontario , the street today connects Toronto landmarks such as Yonge–Dundas Square and the city's principal Chinatown to rural villages and the regional centres of Hamilton and London. A historic alternate name for the street was Governor's Road , as its construction was supervised by John Graves Simcoe , lieutenant governor of Upper Canada ; and

6916-679: The street ends just east of the confluence of the Thames River before it crosses the Kensington Bridge to west London. Originally, this section was called "Dundas Street West" with the eastern portion being "Dundas Street East". However, since construction in the mid-1980s, the entire western portion has been called "Riverside Drive". Some Londoners still refer to the non-renamed portion "Dundas Street East" though it no longer bears an "East" designation. Riverside Drive ends further west at junction with Boler Road and Sanatorium Road. A 396-foot (121 m) three-hinged ribbed steel arch bridge

7007-404: The street near Dundas Valley, today known as Governors Road and earlier as Governor's Road, was surveyed by Augustus Jones and constructed by the Queen's Rangers from 1793 to 1794 as a military supply route at the direction of John Graves Simcoe , first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada . It connected Coote's Paradise, which was later renamed Dundas in reference to the road, which in turn

7098-480: The two cities. On April   1, 1970, a 5.2-kilometre (3.2 mi) segment of the route, from the Port Credit railway underpass to Burnhamthorpe Road, was designated as such. This was followed on December   10, 1970, with the creation of a 2.0 kilometres (1.2 mi) connecting link between Steeles Avenue to south of Clarence Street near downtown Brampton. In 1997, these connecting links were repealed and

7189-454: The west, the road is now Hamilton Road   5 (which the highway is now designated as beyond both ends of its remaining length through Hamilton). It proceeds westwards towards Paris . Proceeding east, it crosses a ravine, divides a large woodlot and passes through agricultural lands. It crosses Spencer Creek as it approaches Brock Road. Spencer Creek plunges over the nearby escarpment at Webster's Falls . Highway   5 then passes through

7280-459: Was a westward extension of today's Queen Street. The first section of the current route of Dundas Street constructed in Toronto was constructed during the War of 1812. It connected today's intersection of Queen Street and Ossington Avenue to Lambton Mills. It was constructed by the militia under the supervision of George Taylor Denison. The section of today's Ossington Avenue from Queen Street north to

7371-604: Was assumed on January   12, 1921. The province and the City of Hamilton also constructed several new bridges across Cootes Paradise to create a new northwest entrance into Hamilton. The new entrance, connecting the Toronto–Hamilton Highway (later Highway   2) with the incomplete route up the escarpment to Clappison's Corners, was ceremonially opened by the Minister of Public Works and Highways, Frank Campbell Biggs , on August   23, 1922. The Clappison Cut

7462-461: Was assumed through Etobicoke from its western boundary as far east as the village of Islington on July   29. A final segment of Dundas Street, within Halton from Waterdown to what is now Winston Churchill Boulevard, was assumed on July   31. Portions of the route through Caledonia, Hagersville, Jarvis and Hamilton were not assumed by the DPHO. Several more segments of road were assumed

7553-576: Was built from 1910 to 1911 to span the Don River valley and railway tracks (now used by the Don Valley Parkway ) below. The bridge was a set of four Warren pony truss spans connected by a shorter riveted Warren deck truss spans to the east and west. The bridge has been altered with the removal of ornamental railings with concrete barrier topped with ornamental railing, removal of steel girders with larger abutments to allow for wider road deck

7644-551: Was completed and paved in 1924. Highway   5 and Highway   6 travelled concurrently from Highway   8 (Main Street) in downtown Hamilton to Clappison's Corners when route numbers were assigned in 1925. Highway   5 was 127.4 kilometres (79.2 mi) long at this time. This situation was short lived however, as Highway   5 was redirected west from Clappison's Corners to Peters Corners to meet Highway   8 on May   25, 1927. Highway   6, in turn, assumed

7735-407: Was completed in 2007. Immigrant communities have sprung up along the route of Dundas Street within Toronto, with most still retaining elements of their original character. Kensington Market was home to Toronto's first Jewish community; Spadina's Chinatown is still the city's largest downtown Asian ethnic enclave; Brockton Village became a west-end destination for the immigrant Irish community in

7826-511: Was designated as Provincial Highway   10 in the summer of 1925. While initially unpaved, construction of a hard surface along Highway   10 began in 1923. That year saw completion of paving between Port Credit and Cooksville, as well as between Chatsworth and Owen Sound. Paving was completed between Cooksville and Brampton in 1925, and for 11.8 kilometres (7.3 mi) north of Brampton and 9.7 kilometres (6.0 mi) northwest of Melancthon in 1926. Further paving in 1928 and 1929 resulted in

7917-524: Was designated on June   18, while the 6.8-kilometre (4.2 mi) section of the Governor's Road, along the boundary between South Dumfries and Brantford Township , was designated several months later on September   24. These two segments were connected by a concurrency with Highway   24. This brought the length of the route to 114.3 kilometres (71.0 mi), including the approximately 16.1 kilometres (10.0 mi) of Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue between Jane Street and Sibley Avenue, within

8008-410: Was known as Agnes Street. East of Yonge, it was Crookshank Street, Wilton Street, with a portion called Wilton Crescent (George Street to Sherbourne Avenue), and finally Beech Street to River Street. Beyond River, Dundas was severed until a steel Arch bridge was built over the Don River in 1910–1911. From 1922 to 1923, the jog from Agnes Street to Wilton was eliminated, tearing down several buildings at

8099-464: Was named after Simcoe's friend Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville , to London, the planned capital at the time, and around Lake Ontario to Newark, today Niagara-on-the-Lake . In 1796, Dundas Street was extended from just west of what is today Highway 6 east towards York . The road was constructed away from the lake shore, and the American border, so a communication link could be maintained in

8190-541: Was redirected west from Clappison's Corners to Peters Corners in 1927, and later to Paris in 1931. Highway   5 was quickly engulfed by the growing outer suburbs of Toronto in the 1950s and 1960s, which led to various portions being transferred to local jurisdiction (though still signed as connecting links ) over the years. The portions within Metropolitan Toronto were transferred in 1954, followed by portions through Mississauga in 1971, 1978 and 1991. By

8281-510: Was taken over (or assumed) by the province on June   24, 1920. Another set of roads were assumed through Wentworth on July   8, connecting with the portion in Haldimand County, through Hamilton to Clappison's Corners and east through Waterdown along Dundas Street. Within Peel, through what is now Mississauga , Dundas Street was assumed on July   22. A portion within York County

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