Dundas Street, also known as Highway 5, passes through Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a major arterial street in Toronto, and forms a major Toronto intersection with Yonge, at which Dundas Square and the Eaton Centre are found.

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1 Downtown centre 2 Art on Dundas Street 3 Highway 5 4 History 5 The Dundas Street streetcar 6 See Also 7 Reference

Downtown centre

Dundas Street is centrally located in downtown Toronto, approximately midway between Queen Street and Bloor Street. The introduction of Dundas Square has also caused the migration of some of the arts and culture that were traditionally on Queen Street West and on Bloor Street to a point midway between them, namely to Dundas.

Art on Dundas Street

Dundas Street is the address of the Art Gallery of Ontario, which takes a full city block on the south side of the street west of University Avenue. The street is also home to many other art galleries, including Bau Xi Gallery .

Highway 5

Dundas street goes west to Etobicoke, then Missisauga, and eventually becomes Highway 5 extending across Ontario. Dundas Street is divided between Dundas Street East and Dundas Street West by Yonge Street, the east/west dividing line for all Toronto streets.

History

Dundas Street is named after its onetime destination, the town of Dundas, Ontario. The town itself was named for Henry Dundas - Viscount Melville, British Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1791 to 1801. In the early 19th century when Toronto's oldest streets were first named, Dundas was an important settlement in its own right, rather than simply a suburb of Hamilton, as it has since become. In the 20th century, for purposes of efficiency, Highway 5 was redirected, and no longer passes through the town of Dundas.

Parts of the current day Dundas Street had different names (Arthur, Agnes, St Patrick, Crookshank, Wilton, and Beech), but they were amalgamted in the early 20th Century to form the current road.

The Dundas Street streetcar

Streetcars run along Dundas Street, on two parallel pairs of tracks, one pair of tracks on each side of the road. Two 600 volt direct current overhead cables supply the electrical power to the streetcars. The 505 Dundas streetcar line runs from Dundas West Subway Stn in the West, along Dundas Street, north on Broadview Avenue, ending at Broadview Subway Station in the East.

See Also

• Bathurst Street
• Queen Street (Toronto)
• King Street
• Yonge Street

Reference

• Dundas Street and Dundas, Ontario

• Queen Street