King Street (Toronto)

King Street
Maintained byCity of Toronto
Length7.9 km (4.9 mi)[1]
West endThe Queensway / Queen Street (Continues as Roncesvalles Avenue)
Major
junctions
East endMerges with Queen Street
Construction
Inauguration1790s
Nearby arterial roads in Toronto
King Street East during evening
King Street at TTC King station
The King Street West Railway Subway, built in 1888, carries CN and GO Transit rail traffic above King Street West between Atlantic and Sudbury.
Wall and chairs (1985) by Al McWilliams on King Street
The intersection of King and York Streets in 1834, looking east along King Street. The Chewett Building, on the southeast corner, was Toronto's first office block and the largest single structure in town.

King Street is a major east–west commercial thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was one of the first streets laid out in the 1793 plan of the town of York, which became Toronto in 1834.

After the construction of the Market Square in 1803 at King and Jarvis streets, to house the first St. Lawrence Market farmer's market, the street became the primary commercial street of York and early Toronto. This original core was destroyed in the 1849 Great Fire of Toronto but was subsequently rebuilt. The original street extended from George Street to Berkeley Street and was extended by 1901 to its present terminuses (both with Queen Street) at Roncesvalles Avenue in the west and the Don River in the east.

  1. ^ "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2018-11-13.