There's still lots of good content on TVO and similar channels, as well. Unfortunately the conservatives are (and have always been) trying to destroy those channels for dumb ideological reasons by cutting their funding over time.
Great Video! Only 2 things to add. 1. Dundas and Bloor are the only 2 streets in Toronto to intersect each other twice (Around Bloor, Dundas and Kipling area and right on TTC's Dundas West Station). 2. As of 2019, the overpass at Dundas and Kipling has been demolished and Dundas was rerouted. Dundas now intersects at Kipling and curves northward east of Kipling into Bloor St W Intersection.
@@kidcutiBloor took over from Dundas east of Kipling as the main east-west street of Toronto because it ran straight and why Highway 5 left Dundas there to follow it eastwards instead.
I remember being told as a kid on a tour at Fort York that Dundas curves upwards to the West so that it would be out of canon range from ships on the lake.
It's Lakeshore Avenue that was routed that way, not Dundas. It's harder to see now that Lakeshore itself has been rerouted in places, not to mention the lakeshore itself being reshaped, but you can still see it is a certain distance from the shore. It can't be Dundas because 1812 cannons just couldn't shoot that far.
@@gadgetgirl02 I'm actually surprised Lakeshore never became *the* main road leading west out of Toronto, and is today only two lanes through Oakville and Burlington.
THAT WAS GREAT!!!! Thanks from an old guy who grew up in T.O. and knows Dundas very well from one end to the other, including the straight parts west of Six Points. Very informative, and now at last it all makes sense!
I lived on Dundas at Highpark and worked in the Junction there for a good few years. Dundas is a great street with so much variation in community from end to end. Great vid. I'll be back.
thank you for including more maps, it makes it so much easier to follow along. you’re videos are becoming more and more enjoyable. i can’t wait for the next ones!!
On parts of Dundas east of Boulton you can see the houses that used to be on Whitby avenue and are now on Dundas sitting above the grade of the street with the old sidewalk that goes off at an angle from the street. And farther east there are a bunch of garages that face Dundas because it goes down the line of what was once a back alley.
There's a bar called Bathurst Local right by the Alexandra Park jog and it has an antique map hanging up showing Dundas in all its pre-realignment glory, along with all the other road network oddities that have gotten ironed out over the years. Lovely thing to look at while having a drink. Would love to see a video exploring how Toronto's street grid came to feature so many absurd jogs and misalignments at every arterial. (Lansdowne/Jameson is the stuff of nightmares, and that's just scratching the surface...) I've always assumed it had to be due to the way the land was parceled out along division roads and developed lot by lot with no cohesive urban plan, and the historical maps I've seen more or less confirm this, but I've never gotten in the weeds enough to learn the full history, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
As someone who lives in the town of Dundas, I found this very interesting. In particular, the part about the street being stitched together was something that I didn't know. This does seem to be a theme that I noticed when driving to London. The road is frequently named Dundas street but often switches to another name for part of the route.
The name change to Governors Road is actually in Dundas: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundas_Street#/media/File:Dundas_St_Governors_Rd_streetsign.jpg One thing I wonder but have never heard mentioned is the where the original route ran through the Niagara Escarpment between Dundas and Waterdown. I guess it might have followed Olympic and York Roads, instead of being rerouted to and breaking at Clappison's Corners.
As somebody who's very recently moved to Toronto and wondered why Dundas is so peculiar when walking on it, thank you for making this and satisfying my curiosity. Your video makes me like the city even more!
Great content and good, straight forward delivery. This is what a longer episode of 'Structures' would have been like. Thanks again for your work, have a good day.
lived at the corner of Parliament and Dundas all through the 80's and early 90's, went for a drive thru the area last time I was back in Toronto and it's changed a whole lot since then
Longtime Toronto resident and you just blew me away with this video. So interesting! Now, what about when Dundas goes north of Bloor and meanders through the Junction? Just excellent work sir, thank you.
Not sure how this came up on my feed, but I'm glad it did. Fantastic video! I also love the dry sense of humour: "Now here are 2000 words..." I chuckled at that. Nice one Steve! New subscriber!!! 😊
Very interesting history! Thanks for publishing it! I have a poster made from a Toronto map from 1854, and it shows many of the small streets and kinks with their original names. Others were simply non-existent or fields at that time. I found it interesting that at that time, King & Queen were clearly laid out as main streets, but the next main street above that was College, then Bloor. Everything in between was just small local streets.
Dundas East's extension came about with the 1953 opening of the underpass beneath the CN Rail tracks (now GO Lakeshore East and VIA Rail). At the time, local factories relied heavily on freight trains connecting with the mainline. Some remnants of those tracks remain. That extension was intended to alleviate traffic on Danforth Avenue and Queen Street East, both connected to Kingston Road. . This was pre-Metro Toronto, a time when Highway 401 was known as "The Toronto By-Pass". Due to the huge chasm known as "Forks of the Don", by the early 1950s, when the local population doubled, no major crossings of the area existed north of the Leaside Bridge. Eglinton would connect between Leslie Street and Victoria Park Avenue (Dawes Road) in 1956. Dundas, Bloor and Danforth all had the Highway 5 moniker until the late 1990s. Between the Six Points and Scarlett Road, Dundas was also known as Highway 5A, with the highway turning north, then connecting with St. Clair. This designation was in anticipation of a possible connection of St. Clair Avenue over the Moore Park Ravine and The Forks of the Don, which never happened.
An interesting video would be about the Wychwood Park neighbourhood, interesting history, beautiful place in Toronto, which could be expanded to the local area around it and how it's always used for movies!
I waited until the last few minutes and you did indeed mention the street I lived on for a quarter century.. Dagmar. The city "expropriated" all the land behind the south properties and built uniform garages for each home. I had a solid concrete fort in the backyard underneath our garage when I grew up!😁👍
I love this! I wish you could go more into the detail of what happened to all of the little streets when Dundas extended East of Boulton. So many streets got cut off and or split!! Tiverton is also such a weird little street! The stretch between Pape and Jones etc. Anyway, love this!!
thanks for the video! Any plans to do a video on the Esplanade/St lawrence market area? I had a conversation with a man on the Go train that claimed to be a student of one of the architects involved in the project. He walked me through some of the goals given to the teams that designed the neighbourhood and my own walks seem to verify some of what he said.
The cat in my avatar was Tuxx. Sadly, she developed cancer and passed away earlier this year. My new cat is very shy but maybe once she comes out of her shell she may agree to be in a video. Time will tell!
Thanks for the video. I used to live on Roncesvalles Avenue, which merges with Dundas St. West a little south of Bloor where the Dundas West Station is. I always thought it was weird how from Yonge St. heading west towards Roncesvalles, it gradually got more north, then went quite a bit north of Bloor, only to head back south of Bloor further west, near Kipling.
Dundas ends up being renamed it should be named after George Dundas who died in WW1 and received the Victoria Cross. Add a poppy sticker to every Dundas sign.
Good idea that would save the city alone plenty of money. However, I have a sinking feeling that a good chunk of the 'anti-Dundas' crowd are also 'anti-war' so I doubt that would fly.
This sounds like an interesting course of act, especially taking into account how Dundas street matured into its current path with a post ww-1 merger of the various streets into Dundas.
Great vid Steve, love the specific Toronto history. The informational content is superb. However, when you're talking about a specific subject, it would help to show a bit more of it! For example, when you're talking about Old Dundas street, the one third of the subject is being blocked by your body. The vlog style is engaging and visually interesting, but an establishing shot of the important streets would give the viewer a better sense of place and feel better to watch. I think you're pretty close to indie youtube greatness, and if you added a few tweaks you could fully immerse the viewer in the subject you're talking about. Thanks for reading (if you're reading, that is, lol)
Wow! that was very insightful! We need more videos like these. As a Gen Z I really appreciate video like these. I wish I was born earlier to experience how great Toronto was back then. Maybe someday, you'll be able to produce a high-quality documentary of Toronto's legacy.
Toronto and what is most of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes was French controlled for 200 plus years until 1790. What happened 1790? The French Revolution and the lose of most of its colonial control in the greater globe. Lord Simcoe Graves established British control and they ran the French inhabitants out and into defeat, in a brief nutshell of this country's colonial existence.
@@Phukugoooglification French settlers were never much of a presence in Ontario as they mostly ignored it for some reason, which is why it became so Anglo.
Good video - it's always fun delving into the history of Dundas St. and how it came to be. As far as the area just west of the Don River goes, originally the streets east and west of Wilton Crescent had different names - west of Wilton Cr. was Crookshank St., and east of Wilton was Beech St. Over time the name Wilton expanded to take over the neighbouring streets, until Dundas came and absorbed the whole lot of them.
Interesting, At Coxwell there was a stream in that park. in fact, Dundas crosses dozens of lost streams. Including famously Garrison Creek and also another one which passed by Church and Dundas going down Dalhousie. I think there was another one too by the Eatons Centre but i could be wrong.
There are tons of lost streams in Toronto. I did a whole video on them and still only covered a few: ruclips.net/video/RvW16nVVgjQ/видео.htmlsi=fyQov_D_Rke67V5d
this history is interesting thanks for making the video, one odd thing I noticed in my travels was while driving down the DVP I noticed this old bridge over the don river that was not connected to any roads i finally looked at the goggle stat view which names it old eastern ave...i always wondered what road used to connect to this unusable bridge and why is it still there ?
That used to be Eastern Avenue! There's a mention of that, along with a map that should help, in my video on the Lower Don River - ruclips.net/video/xjZehqJc43s/видео.htmlsi=FMm4BYMs_ENhPoAG
And this whole time i thought it was the shoreline going back 5000 years or so ago! Lake Iroquois? You know trading routes, but i guess this is more about the streets.
I lived on Euclid Ave, just off Dundas...near Dundas and Bathurst back in the 80s to go to school. Lived in Halifax before that going to school and jumped the train to T.O for school and moved from Boston before that going to school...lol I was in my 20s...i'm 61 now..living in beautiful Cape Breton. Got kids and grandkids so i'm not going anywhere.
I am glad you filled in the gaps of this very bizarre street, and have answered questions that I have wondered about. However, you seem to gloss over where Dundas REALLY gets interesting in the West End: 1. Where Dundas hijacks Roncesvalles and goes from an East-West St to a North-South St that parallels Bloor to directly crossing it. WTF? How did that happen? 2. The bizarre mess that defies logic known as the Junction where Dundas, Dupont, Annette, and Old Weston Road meet, and changes directions yet again. You could do a whole video on that if you have not already. 3. Makes a sharp turn South going West right at St. Geprges on the Hill Cemetary. If you have already answered these questions; please direct me to the videos.
I lived at Crossways apts (just out of view in the opening clip). I remember when I told a friend from the Beaches that I lived @ Bloor & Dundas they thought I was making it up.
Love this vid. I live on Dundas Street East, the part that use to be called Wilton. I didn't know about the other streets but was thinking with every swerve that you feel on the street car 'oh I wonder if that is another small street that was turned into Dundas street". And I was right. I hope they don't rename the street as no one knows who this guy Dundas was + no one cares, I thought it was named after a town or city in Ireland and its going to cost millions to do it, that money could be better spent fixing the homelessness problem that is growing in TO.
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This is the kind of surprisingly informative video you would have seen between programs on TVO back in the day. Hope you can keep making them!
I use to love tvo kids lol
TVO still exists. Actually it's one of my favorite TV channels.
There's still lots of good content on TVO and similar channels, as well. Unfortunately the conservatives are (and have always been) trying to destroy those channels for dumb ideological reasons by cutting their funding over time.
They still have shows like this.
@@Loyatyispriceless I too was a TVO kids kid
Lived on Dundas & Spadina for 6 years, always found it weird how bendy this street is.
Thanks for answering my lingering questions lol
Great Video! Only 2 things to add.
1. Dundas and Bloor are the only 2 streets in Toronto to intersect each other twice (Around Bloor, Dundas and Kipling area and right on TTC's Dundas West Station).
2. As of 2019, the overpass at Dundas and Kipling has been demolished and Dundas was rerouted. Dundas now intersects at Kipling and curves northward east of Kipling into Bloor St W Intersection.
i was hoping to learn more about that bloor st relationship in the west
smaller streets but markland and millroad intersect twice as well
@@devan7485that’s true! Same with Markland and Bloor.
@@kidcutiBloor took over from Dundas east of Kipling as the main east-west street of Toronto because it ran straight and why Highway 5 left Dundas there to follow it eastwards instead.
Im so happy the algorythm blessed this video and showed me this channel
yt algo has been bad lately, but i was thinking the same!
Agree! ❤️❤️😊
I remember being told as a kid on a tour at Fort York that Dundas curves upwards to the West so that it would be out of canon range from ships on the lake.
I read that the curve northward was to avoid swampy land around what is now Grenadier Pond.
It's Lakeshore Avenue that was routed that way, not Dundas. It's harder to see now that Lakeshore itself has been rerouted in places, not to mention the lakeshore itself being reshaped, but you can still see it is a certain distance from the shore.
It can't be Dundas because 1812 cannons just couldn't shoot that far.
@@gadgetgirl02 I'm actually surprised Lakeshore never became *the* main road leading west out of Toronto, and is today only two lanes through Oakville and Burlington.
THAT WAS GREAT!!!! Thanks from an old guy who grew up in T.O. and knows Dundas very well from one end to the other, including the straight parts west of Six Points. Very informative, and now at last it all makes sense!
What a gem of a channel, thank you for putting these togather!
I lived on Dundas at Highpark and worked in the Junction there for a good few years. Dundas is a great street with so much variation in community from end to end. Great vid. I'll be back.
I miss the polish bakeries and stuff
thank you for including more maps, it makes it so much easier to follow along. you’re videos are becoming more and more enjoyable. i can’t wait for the next ones!!
Glad you like them!
I didn't even know about Old Dundas. super cool.
On parts of Dundas east of Boulton you can see the houses that used to be on Whitby avenue and are now on Dundas sitting above the grade of the street with the old sidewalk that goes off at an angle from the street. And farther east there are a bunch of garages that face Dundas because it goes down the line of what was once a back alley.
There's a bar called Bathurst Local right by the Alexandra Park jog and it has an antique map hanging up showing Dundas in all its pre-realignment glory, along with all the other road network oddities that have gotten ironed out over the years. Lovely thing to look at while having a drink.
Would love to see a video exploring how Toronto's street grid came to feature so many absurd jogs and misalignments at every arterial. (Lansdowne/Jameson is the stuff of nightmares, and that's just scratching the surface...) I've always assumed it had to be due to the way the land was parceled out along division roads and developed lot by lot with no cohesive urban plan, and the historical maps I've seen more or less confirm this, but I've never gotten in the weeds enough to learn the full history, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
A straightforward informative video with no obnoxious presentation. I appreciate that a lot.
As someone who lives in the town of Dundas, I found this very interesting. In particular, the part about the street being stitched together was something that I didn't know. This does seem to be a theme that I noticed when driving to London. The road is frequently named Dundas street but often switches to another name for part of the route.
The name change to Governors Road is actually in Dundas: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundas_Street#/media/File:Dundas_St_Governors_Rd_streetsign.jpg
One thing I wonder but have never heard mentioned is the where the original route ran through the Niagara Escarpment between Dundas and Waterdown. I guess it might have followed Olympic and York Roads, instead of being rerouted to and breaking at Clappison's Corners.
Brings back memories of my childhood
I do not know who you are or why I'm here but you have a very endearing personality. I enjoyed listening to your informative insight, cheers.
I love that depending where you live you can live North of/South of/ East of Dundas St. West all while at the same address
Finally, a have you ever wondered video where i actually wondered it.
As somebody who's very recently moved to Toronto and wondered why Dundas is so peculiar when walking on it, thank you for making this and satisfying my curiosity. Your video makes me like the city even more!
Your content quality has improved drastically! Always happy to see one of your videos
Just got this video in my recommended page. I'm glad I clicked. Great video.
Great content and good, straight forward delivery. This is what a longer episode of 'Structures' would have been like. Thanks again for your work, have a good day.
That junction of bloor dupont and dundas always messed up my internal compass. Great video.
I just started watching your stuff, love it haha. Dundas street never ends to me as somebody who use to live in Guelph and didn't know the area well.
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lived at the corner of Parliament and Dundas all through the 80's and early 90's, went for a drive thru the area last time I was back in Toronto and it's changed a whole lot since then
Very well put together video. Thanks for sharing!
Regarding weird roads and bridges, the history of Fourth Line in Oakville is actually really interesting too
Super informative video! I’ve travelled Dundas many times and it’s great to learn some of the history behind it’s wonky route. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Longtime Toronto resident and you just blew me away with this video. So interesting! Now, what about when Dundas goes north of Bloor and meanders through the Junction? Just excellent work sir, thank you.
I just wanted to say I really liked this video. You've got a new subscriber in me!
I go down Dundas regularly and the questions often crosses my mind. Now I know! haha. Thank you! This was really cool!
Not sure how this came up on my feed, but I'm glad it did. Fantastic video! I also love the dry sense of humour: "Now here are 2000 words..."
I chuckled at that. Nice one Steve! New subscriber!!! 😊
this is actually really informative and interesting about the city im living in. great job!
As a native Dundasian, I take offense to being lumped in with Hamilton, regardless of what the census says. Great video!
lol well who takes out your garbage and all your other services
@@Andytess91 we did ourselves until the great amalgamation of 2001 gosh
Very interesting history! Thanks for publishing it! I have a poster made from a Toronto map from 1854, and it shows many of the small streets and kinks with their original names. Others were simply non-existent or fields at that time. I found it interesting that at that time, King & Queen were clearly laid out as main streets, but the next main street above that was College, then Bloor. Everything in between was just small local streets.
Dundas Street is definitely bendy. Quite a lot of information in such a short video. Thank you for sharing your findings with us! (-:
Dundas East's extension came about with the 1953 opening of the underpass beneath the CN Rail tracks (now GO Lakeshore East and VIA Rail). At the time, local factories relied heavily on freight trains connecting with the mainline. Some remnants of those tracks remain.
That extension was intended to alleviate traffic on Danforth Avenue and Queen Street East, both connected to Kingston Road. . This was pre-Metro Toronto, a time when Highway 401 was known as "The Toronto By-Pass". Due to the huge chasm known as "Forks of the Don", by the early 1950s, when the local population doubled, no major crossings of the area existed north of the Leaside Bridge. Eglinton would connect between Leslie Street and Victoria Park Avenue (Dawes Road) in 1956.
Dundas, Bloor and Danforth all had the Highway 5 moniker until the late 1990s. Between the Six Points and Scarlett Road, Dundas was also known as Highway 5A, with the highway turning north, then connecting with St. Clair. This designation was in anticipation of a possible connection of St. Clair Avenue over the Moore Park Ravine and The Forks of the Don, which never happened.
This video was awesome! Love learning more about the city I live in, keep up the great work, Steve. 😊
An interesting video would be about the Wychwood Park neighbourhood, interesting history, beautiful place in Toronto, which could be expanded to the local area around it and how it's always used for movies!
I waited until the last few minutes and you did indeed mention the street I lived on for a quarter century.. Dagmar. The city "expropriated" all the land behind the south properties and built uniform garages for each home. I had a solid concrete fort in the backyard underneath our garage when I grew up!😁👍
I love this! I wish you could go more into the detail of what happened to all of the little streets when Dundas extended East of Boulton. So many streets got cut off and or split!! Tiverton is also such a weird little street! The stretch between Pape and Jones etc. Anyway, love this!!
1:24 love the timing of that vehicle crossing the river!
Amazing and informative video!
I've only been to Toronto once but I distinctly remember biking down this road while trying to find the Kenny v Spenny house
Worth a like and subscribe. Thanks for the hard work putting this together.
I just started watching your channel! Amazing work you do !!!! Very informative! 👍👍👍I just subscribed!!
It's so surprising how young the street is. I saw a street so bendy and believed with confidence that it was ancient like Kingston Road.
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thanks for the video! Any plans to do a video on the Esplanade/St lawrence market area? I had a conversation with a man on the Go train that claimed to be a student of one of the architects involved in the project. He walked me through some of the goals given to the teams that designed the neighbourhood and my own walks seem to verify some of what he said.
Hmm ... nothing planned in that regard, but thanks for the suggestion - I'll keep it in mind.
Amazing work like always Steve.
p.s whats your cat's name
The cat in my avatar was Tuxx. Sadly, she developed cancer and passed away earlier this year. My new cat is very shy but maybe once she comes out of her shell she may agree to be in a video. Time will tell!
Fascinating. Excellent research work.
Steve, I don’t know who you are but now I’m subscribed to your channel. I’ll check out for the links in the usual places.
I'm still satisfied with the theory that Dundas follows the trail of a drunken Moose.
Great video! love hitorical contents like this about Toronto!
Thanks for the video. I used to live on Roncesvalles Avenue, which merges with Dundas St. West a little south of Bloor where the Dundas West Station is. I always thought it was weird how from Yonge St. heading west towards Roncesvalles, it gradually got more north, then went quite a bit north of Bloor, only to head back south of Bloor further west, near Kipling.
Just subscribed! I love how informative and detailed the video is! Great job!
Really interesting dude. Well presented!
Great video, Steve, really informative! Liked and subscribed....thanks for this!
Great video. Love learning about my city
Very interesting video
It is, isn't it
Dundas ends up being renamed it should be named after George Dundas who died in WW1 and received the Victoria Cross. Add a poppy sticker to every Dundas sign.
Good idea that would save the city alone plenty of money. However, I have a sinking feeling that a good chunk of the 'anti-Dundas' crowd are also 'anti-war' so I doubt that would fly.
Better than naming it after the current leadership, which would be Dumbass St.
This sounds like an interesting course of act, especially taking into account how Dundas street matured into its current path with a post ww-1 merger of the various streets into Dundas.
Brilliant solution.
That's a rechristening of the same name, not a renaming.
YOU ARE A LEGEND!!! please keep it up this made my day
Awesome video, used to live on Dundas west and truly amazing
Great vid Steve, love the specific Toronto history. The informational content is superb. However, when you're talking about a specific subject, it would help to show a bit more of it! For example, when you're talking about Old Dundas street, the one third of the subject is being blocked by your body. The vlog style is engaging and visually interesting, but an establishing shot of the important streets would give the viewer a better sense of place and feel better to watch.
I think you're pretty close to indie youtube greatness, and if you added a few tweaks you could fully immerse the viewer in the subject you're talking about. Thanks for reading (if you're reading, that is, lol)
Thanks!
What an interesting topic! Thank you!!!
This was great thanks for the info!
Wow! that was very insightful! We need more videos like these. As a Gen Z I really appreciate video like these. I wish I was born earlier to experience how great Toronto was back then. Maybe someday, you'll be able to produce a high-quality documentary of Toronto's legacy.
Toronto and what is most of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes was French controlled for 200 plus years until 1790. What happened 1790? The French Revolution and the lose of most of its colonial control in the greater globe. Lord Simcoe Graves established British control and they ran the French inhabitants out and into defeat, in a brief nutshell of this country's colonial existence.
@@Phukugoooglification French settlers were never much of a presence in Ontario as they mostly ignored it for some reason, which is why it became so Anglo.
@@ALuimes You have no idea what you are talking about. Nice try Russian or Chinese or Azberistan info warrior.
Always knew Dundas was stitched together, but I've never seen exactly how the surgery was performed, thanks!
Good video - it's always fun delving into the history of Dundas St. and how it came to be. As far as the area just west of the Don River goes, originally the streets east and west of Wilton Crescent had different names - west of Wilton Cr. was Crookshank St., and east of Wilton was Beech St. Over time the name Wilton expanded to take over the neighbouring streets, until Dundas came and absorbed the whole lot of them.
Thanks for the info! So my guess about Crookshank was right, but I hadn't seen a reference to Beech before.
Excellent video. Well done!
keep up the videos love watching!!
Interesting, At Coxwell there was a stream in that park. in fact, Dundas crosses dozens of lost streams. Including famously Garrison Creek and also another one which passed by Church and Dundas going down Dalhousie. I think there was another one too by the Eatons Centre but i could be wrong.
There are tons of lost streams in Toronto. I did a whole video on them and still only covered a few: ruclips.net/video/RvW16nVVgjQ/видео.htmlsi=fyQov_D_Rke67V5d
I just found your video and I watched the whole thing. Well Done!!!
i've been holding back on watching this for a month. I was just on dundas and frustrated by it yesterday.
this history is interesting thanks for making the video, one odd thing I noticed in my travels was while driving down the DVP I noticed this old bridge over the don river that was not connected to any roads i finally looked at the goggle stat view which names it old eastern ave...i always wondered what road used to connect to this unusable bridge and why is it still there ?
That used to be Eastern Avenue! There's a mention of that, along with a map that should help, in my video on the Lower Don River - ruclips.net/video/xjZehqJc43s/видео.htmlsi=FMm4BYMs_ENhPoAG
Very informative
Interesting. I lived in Toronto for 35 years, and I always seemed to be walking distance from Dundas... or whatever they will wind up calling it.
Great video, thanks
This is really great!
I appreciate the bits of humour haha
yes i have wondered that, recommended youtube video!
great vid! super informative
Great video!
You know I have wondered this, especially where it curves North of Bloor before turning back South again.
Stumbled across your videos and just enjoying them, well done.
I live on Palmerston Avenue and would love to hear about it’s history, particularly between Bloor and College
And this whole time i thought it was the shoreline going back 5000 years or so ago! Lake Iroquois? You know trading routes, but i guess this is more about the streets.
I lived there for 10 years and never got used to that street!
I lived on Euclid Ave, just off Dundas...near Dundas and Bathurst back in the 80s to go to school. Lived in Halifax before that going to school and jumped the train to T.O for school and moved from Boston before that going to school...lol I was in my 20s...i'm 61 now..living in beautiful Cape Breton. Got kids and grandkids so i'm not going anywhere.
Great channel, you should do a collaboration with Adam Bunch
1:51 the kei truck in bg 🤣🤣
The algorithm is working.
Can you make a video about Kingston Road?
I live on governors road in the town of Dundas. There’s a monument to him in front of Dundas valley high.
I am glad you filled in the gaps of this very bizarre street, and have answered questions that I have wondered about.
However, you seem to gloss over where Dundas REALLY gets interesting in the West End:
1. Where Dundas hijacks Roncesvalles and goes from an East-West St to a North-South St that parallels Bloor to directly crossing it. WTF? How did that happen?
2. The bizarre mess that defies logic known as the Junction where Dundas, Dupont, Annette, and Old Weston Road meet, and changes directions yet again. You could do a whole video on that if you have not already.
3. Makes a sharp turn South going West right at St. Geprges on the Hill Cemetary.
If you have already answered these questions; please direct me to the videos.
I lived at Crossways apts (just out of view in the opening clip). I remember when I told a friend from the Beaches that I lived @ Bloor & Dundas they thought I was making it up.
And they thought you were even crazier when you told them there are *two* intersections of Bloor and Dundas, right? :-)
@@notsmoothsteve Nope. I didn't know that till just now! lol
Great video. I especially applaud your correct Canadian pronunciation of lieutenant.
I would love a bunch of these episodes on Hamilton, ON.
where I live there is a road that goes from down town to the south end of town that is cut into 4 sections that dont connect with each other.
Can you do a video about mt. Pleasant road...how it used to have a streetcar, antique alley, etc.
Great video! The push to rename Dundas is criminal given the rich history of this street in Toronto.
Not as rich as the freak history in Toronto.
Love this vid. I live on Dundas Street East, the part that use to be called Wilton. I didn't know about the other streets but was thinking with every swerve that you feel on the street car 'oh I wonder if that is another small street that was turned into Dundas street". And I was right. I hope they don't rename the street as no one knows who this guy Dundas was + no one cares, I thought it was named after a town or city in Ireland and its going to cost millions to do it, that money could be better spent fixing the homelessness problem that is growing in TO.