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 McCowan Road within Toronto and York Region, road is highlighted in Pink on the map. | |||||||
| Namesake | McCowan Family | ||||||
| Location | Toronto Markham Whitchurch-Stouffville East Gwillimbury Georgina | ||||||
| South end | Kingston Road In Toronto (Continues as Cathedral Bluffs Drive) | ||||||
| Major junctions | St. Clair Avenue Eglinton Avenue ——Road Branches—— Lawrence Avenue Ellesmere Road  Highway 401 Sheppard Avenue Finch Avenue  Steeles Avenue Highway 407 Highway 7 Major Mackenzie Drive Elgin Mills Road  19th Avenue  Stouffville Road Bloomington Road Aurora Road St. John’s Sideroad Vivian Road  Davis Drive Green Line  Mount Albert Road Doane Road Queensville SideroadHolborn Road Boag Road  Ravenshoe RoadGlenwoods Avenue Mount Pleasant Trail  Old Homestead RoadCountry Mile Lane | ||||||
| North end |  Baseline Road In Georgina | ||||||
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McCowan Road is a major north-south thoroughfare in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. It runs through the city of Toronto and into the Regional Municipality of York where it ends at the Town of Georgina.
The road was named for the McCowan Family, a Scottish family patriarch who settled in the area in 1833.[1] The street, the former Lot 22, and later McCowan's Sideroad (officially called McCowan Road by Scarborough Township in 1956), begins at Kingston Road in the City of Toronto and ends at Baseline Road in the Town of Georgina.[2]
In Scarborough, there is a brief break at the Highland Creek between Lawrence and Eglinton Avenues; Danforth Road carries most of the traffic south-southwest of Lawrence. When the Scarborough Town Centre complex was opened in 1973, interchange access to Highway 401 was opened, with Exit 381. With greater vehicle usage, in that area, the road is now 6 lanes from Ellesmere Road to Sheppard Avenue, and additional exit ramps to/from the 401 have been constructed at nearby Brimley Road. North of Sheppard Avenue, CP Rail's Toronto marshalling yards use McCowan as a western limit, and stretch east of Markham Road. [3]
- ^ Markham Street name origin index https://www.markham.ca/wps/wcm/connect/markham/a7c9a340-5243-4036-a1b5-401e55ee9fb6/streetname-index.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CONVERT_TO=url&CACHEID=ROOTWORKSPACE.Z18_2QD4H901OGV160QC8BLCRJ1001-a7c9a340-5243-4036-a1b5-401e55ee9fb6-msYFNOT#:~:text=McCowan%20Road%20Named%20after%20the,the%207th%20Line%20in%20Markham.
- ^ Scarborough Street Names http://scarboroughhistorical.ca/local-history/street-names-of-scarborough/#:~:text=In%20the%201850s%2C%20wood%20boards,and%20McCowan%20Rd.
- ^ TO maps https://map.toronto.ca/torontomaps/ (Map). City of Toronto. 2008. Archived from the original on February 14, 2014. Retrieved January 20, 2011.