Sherbourne Street, Toronto

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Sherbourne Street

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    Sherbourne Street, Toronto
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    Sherbourne Street is a roadway in Downtown Toronto.[1] It is one of the original streets in the old city of York, Upper Canada. It starts at Queen's quay, and heads north to South Drive. It is two lanes for its entire length, though the part south of Bloor has bike lanes.

    It was named by

    Dorset, England; the Ridout family emigrated from Sherborne to Maryland in 1774.[2]
    Before 1845 the short stretch from Palace Street (now Front Street East) to Duchess Street (now Richmond Street) was called Caroline Street.

    History

    In 1838, following the

    Bloor
    .

    In the 19th Century Sherbourne was lined with the stately homes of many of Toronto's most prominent families, but by the 20th Century the remaining stately houses, like 230 Sherbourne Street, had been converted to rooming houses.[3]

    Streetcars ran down Sherbourne from 1874 (as horsecar service until electrified in 1891, then as Belt Line to 1923 and finally as Sherbourne streetcar line) to 1942.[4] Buses did not begin on Sherbourne until 1947 and is now signed as 75 Sherbourne since 1957.

    In the early 2000s City Council chose Sherbourne as one of the first streets in Toronto to be retrofitted with dedicated bike lanes. In 2012 Sherbourne's bike lanes were improved, changing them from lanes separated from cars and trucks solely by painted lines to lanes with a pavement change that would warn motorists when they had strayed out of their lanes.[5][6]

    Landmarks

    Landmark Cross street Notes Image
    Rosedale Ravine
    Sherbourne Subway Station
    		 Bloor Street
    Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
    James Cooper House Linden Street
    Our Lady of Lourdes Church
    		 Earl Street
    Phoenix Concert Theatre
    St. James Town Branch of
    the Toronto Public Library     		Wellesley Street
    St. Luke's United Church Carlton Street
    Allan Gardens between Gerrard Street East and Carlton Street
    Allandale House Dundas Street East
    Moss Park between Queen Street East and Shuter Street
    Paul Bishop's House Adelaide Street East
    National Hotel
    		 King Street East
    Sherbourne Common Queens Quay

    References

    1. ^ Mary Ormsby (November 29, 2009). "Sherbourne: Toronto's 'city in one street'". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on July 15, 2013. From its origins two centuries ago, Sherbourne reflected what the city of York would become – a duelling ground where privilege, poverty and politics would battle to shape the metropolis. Those duels aren't over.
    2. ISBN 1-55209-386-7
      .
    3. ^ Lesley McCave (2005). "Time Out Toronto".
      ISBN 9781904978329
      . Retrieved March 11, 2013. Sherbourne Street houses many excellent 19th-century buildings, but the most interesting is probably the Clarion Selby Hotel & Suites at No. 592. At different times it has house everything and everyone from Ernest Hemingway to a gay backroom bar. The original macho man stayed here in September 1923, when the building was the Selby Hotel and Hemingway was a reporter for the Toronto Star.
    4. ^ James Bow, Pete Coulman (January 3, 2013). "Remembering the Sherbourne Streetcar (1874-1942)".
      Transit Toronto. Archived from the original
      on March 27, 2013. Sherbourne Street was, after Yonge Street, the first major north-south street in Toronto to reach north towards Bloor. As streetcar service grew and developed in the young city, it wasn't long before streetcar tracks followed.
    5. ^ Don Peat (September 25, 2012). "Sherbourne Bike Lanes Get Ready to Roll as Jarvis Fight Looms". Toronto Sun. Archived from the original on October 28, 2012. The stretch of separated lanes are expected to be completed next month and will be the first on-road separated bike lanes in the city.
    6. ^ James Armstrong (February 20, 2013). "North American cyclists up to 30 times more likely to be injured than European cyclists".
      Global Toronto. Archived from the original
      on March 6, 2013. The study found that separated bike lanes, found on the length of Sherbourne Street from King Street to Bloor Street, significantly decrease the risk of injury among cyclists.

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