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[[File:Bathurst Street looking south from above Davenport Road.jpg|thumb|Davenport Road runs east - west at the foot of this scarp.]] |
[[File:Bathurst Street looking south from above Davenport Road.jpg|thumb|Davenport Road runs east - west at the foot of this scarp.]] |
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Davenport Road is a road in Toronto that follows a native trail along the foot of the scarp of the old shoreline of Lake Iroquois.[1][2] It currently runs from Yonge Street to Old Weston Road.
According to the Community History Project the First Nations trail the road follows is "without question, the oldest and longest route in Ontario."[3] They report the trail that Davenport Road followed in the Toronto area was part of a longer trail that formed what is now "Kingston Road" east of the Don River, and what is now "Dundas Street" west of the Humber River. They report that the Toronto portion had earlier names, including "Plank Road", "Bull Road", and "the new road to Niagara" -- but that it was callled "Davenport Road" since 1797.
The road was paved outside of York, Upper Canada in 1833, with the improvements to be paid for by tolls.[3] Tollkeepers' cottages were constructed every few kilometres, the cottage near what is now the intersection of Bathurst Street and Davenport Road surviving to the present day.
In 1896 The Daily Mail and Empire published a letter from a reader responding to recent article on roads requiring repair in Toronto described Davenport as being in "simply disgraceful condition". [4] The reader described Davenport Road, and several other roads, as being "block paved", and complained "this kind of pavement is anything but durable" -- due either to Toronto's climate, or poor construction.
References
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Jamie Bradburn (2011-07-07). "Goin' Down the Davenport Road". The Torontoist. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
Waves from a glacial lake once lapped along it. When the water receded, the winding path at the bottom of the escarpment left behind proved an ideal path for local aboriginal peoples to travel between the Toronto Carrying Place along the Humber River and the Don River to the east.
mirror - ^ "Davenport Road: There are four plaques about this road". Toronto Plaques. mirror
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"Designating Davenport: Preserving Ontario's oldest road" (PDF). Community History Project. 2006-06. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
The ancient trail that converted gradually into a road is, without question, the oldest and longest route in Ontario. Within the City of Toronto the central portion is called Davenport, while its eastern extension has many names but most commonly is called Kingston Road. Westward from the Humber River, it also has many names, the most commonly used one is Dundas Street because it was joined by the built route from Fort York to the Humber crossing of Davenport.
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Camaradia Kipps (1896-08-21). "Some city streets". The Daily Mail and Empire. p. 10. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
In the report of streets requiring re-paving appearing in your issue of 20th inst., among various streets recommended, no mention is made of Davenport road, which is in a simply disgraceful condition
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