29 Facts About Carlton Street

Keating Carlton Street continued east from a point just south of that intersection to Woodbine Avenue.

Front Carlton Street is so named because it fronted the Lake Ontario shoreline at the time of the original layout of York.

Front Carlton Street begins at Bathurst Carlton Street and crosses through downtown Toronto north of the rail viaduct.

Wellington Carlton Street is a one-way westbound street north of Front Carlton Street.

Wellington Carlton Street is likely named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.

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King Carlton Street was named in honour of King George III by John Graves Simcoe when it was laid out in the original plan of York in 1793.

Adelaide Carlton Street was named after Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen by Peter Russell, second Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, in his 1797 plan of Toronto.

Richmond Carlton Street is named after Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond.

Richmond Carlton Street absorbed Duchess Carlton Street and became a one-way road in 1958 as part of a process to build ramps to Eastern Avenue and the Don Valley Parkway.

Queen Carlton Street, known as Lot Carlton Street until 1844, was named in honour of Queen Victoria, who reigned from 1837 until her death in 1901.

The central portion of Lot Carlton Street was constructed as the baseline for surveys along Yonge Carlton Street by the Queen's Rangers in 1793 as the first concession road.

Queen Carlton Street begins at an intersection with The Queensway, Roncesvalles Avenue and King Carlton Street and crosses through Parkdale, the Fashion District, downtown Toronto, Riverdale, Leslieville, East Toronto and The Beaches, ending east of Victoria Park Avenue at a residential street named Fallingbrook Road in Scarborough.

Dundas Carlton Street was named by John Graves Simcoe in honour of the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.

Dundas Carlton Street was to connect York with Detroit, then a British settlement; it reached as far as London, Simcoe's proposed new capital.

Dundas Carlton Street used to begin at the present-day intersection of Queen Carlton Street West and Ossington Avenue.

Gerrard Carlton Street was established on January 6,1875 by incorporating Don Carlton Street and Lake View Avenue.

Gerrard Carlton Street begins at University Avenue in the Discovery District, surrounded by Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto General Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children.

Gerrard Carlton Street ends at Clonmore Avenue, west of Warden Avenue; traffic is forced onto Clonmore Avenue, where it can travel as far as Birchmount Road.

Carlton Street was named by Ann Wood, wife of both Andrew Ryan McGill and then John Strachan, after her brother, Guy Carleton Wood, who was in turn named after Guy Carleton; it is unknown when the "e" was dropped from the spelling.

In 1930, as part of a depression relief program, Carlton Street was realigned east of Yonge Street in order to meet with College Street.

Carlton Street is home to Maple Leaf Gardens; Toronto Maple Leafs mascot, Carlton the Bear, is named after this street.

The road began at a gatehouse at Yonge Carlton Street and progressed westward to present-day University Avenue.

Wellesley Carlton Street is named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, who is best known for his victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, and for a short and unpopular tenure as Prime Minister of Britain between 1828 and 1830.

Wellesley Carlton Street begins at the entrance to the University of Toronto at Queen's Park Crescent.

East of Yonge Carlton Street, Wellesley serves as one of the defining streets of the Church and Wellesley district, the city's primary gay village.

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Annette Street is named after the wife of developer and barrister Columbus H Greene.

Dupont Carlton Street is named for George Dupont Wells, son of Colonel Joseph Wells.

In 1913, O'Connor opened the Laura Secord Candy Shop on Yonge Carlton Street named after War of 1812 heroine Laura Secord, which has since become a national chain.

East of Leslie Carlton Street, Lawrence becomes an arterial road, passing through Don Mills.