Beverley Street

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Beverley Street
Beverley Street Toronto Sign.svg
Beverley & Dundas.jpg
Beverley Street at Dundas Street West in 2019
Length1 km (0.62 mi)
Location Queen Street WestCollege Street
(continues north as St. George St.)
Consulate General of Italy located on Beverley Street at the corner of Dundas Street West. Consulate General of Italy in Toronto.jpg
Consulate General of Italy located on Beverley Street at the corner of Dundas Street West.

Beverley Street is a minor road and major bike route located in the central area of Toronto, Ontario. The street was put in place in the 1870s, with large and coveted lots alongside. [1] [2] It is of general consensus among locals that the road acts as the division between the Grange and Baldwin Village neighborhoods on the east side of the street and Toronto's main Chinatown on the west side, respectively. [3] It is designated bicycle route #35 in Toronto's cycle network.

Beverley Street is a two-lane road serving both directions with additional bicycle lanes along the curb side of the fully paved roadway. Due to these exclusive "bike lanes," the road acts as the principle north–south cyclist route for the western side of Toronto's downtown area. Beginning at Queen Street West and terminating at College Street, the road continues northbound turning into St. George Street, which runs through the main campus of The University of Toronto. The street is approximately one kilometre in length. Points of interest along the street include: the Grange Park, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Italian Consulate General, George Brown House, and Polish Combatants of WW2 Hall.

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References

  1. Lundell, Liz (1997). The estates of Old Toronto. Boston Mills Press. p. 30. ISBN   9781550462197 via Google Books. Beverley Street was laid out with large and highly fashionable lots in the 1870s.
  2. 1 2 Gray, Charlotte (1977). Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King. Penguin Books. p. 100. ISBN   9780140253672 via Google Books. More important, Beverley Street was filled with the kind of wellto - do people that both John and Isabel yearned to mix with. It offered an intellectual cachet. Beverley Street was home to professors and lawyers who judged each other by their publications rather than their purses.
  3. Wise, Leonard (2017). Charles Pachter: Canada's Artist. Dundurn Press. ISBN   9781459738768 via Google Books. 'But with the elegant new AGO and redesigned Grange Park on the Beverley Street border, and the bustle and cacophony of Spadina Avenue a block west with high-rise condos sprouting up and down the Avenue, Chinatown is beginning to transmogrify.'