York Mills Road

York Mills Road

Infobox road
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highway_name=York Mills Road
maint=City of Toronto
direction_a=East
terminus_a=Victoria Park Avenue
direction_b=West
terminus_b=Yonge Street
cities=Toronto

York Mills Road is an east-west route in Toronto, Ontario, Canada named for the community of York Mills or Hoggs Hollow. "York" refers to the former Town of York and "Mills" refers to the gristmill and sawmills in the Don River valley during 1804–1926. [cite web
url = http://www.torontoneighbourhoods.net/regions/northyork/122.html
title = York Mills
publisher = Maple Tree
year = 1999
accessdate = 2007-12-14] It is the former 10th concession road.

York Mills runs east of Yonge Street and ends at Victoria Park Avenue. Near Victoria Park, most of the traffic follows Parkwoods Village Drive in connection to Ellesmere Road. To the west, York Mills Road becomes Wilson Avenue. These roads form a parallel alternative to the nearby Highway 401.

In the 1970s, when the Toronto Transit Commission extended the Yonge Street subway line north from the Eglinton terminus, a new roadway alignment from York Mills to Wilson was completed to accommodate the new York Mills subway station.

Landmarks along York Mills Road include a recreation complex at Bayview Avenue, York Mills Collegiate Institute, a large Rogers Communications complex past Leslie Street, and the former site of the Upjohn Company of Canada near Don Mills Road at Upjohn Road.

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