Sherbourne Street, Toronto

Sherbourne Street
	Sherbourne Street North is orange; Lower Sherbourne Street is pink; Sherbourne Street is red;
Maintained by	City of Toronto government
Length	3.65 km (2.27 mi)
Location	Toronto
South end	Queens Quay
Major; junctions	King Street; Queen Street; Bloor Street;
North end	South Drive
	Nearby arterial roads in Toronto

Sherbourne Street is a roadway in Downtown Toronto.^[1] It is one of the original streets in the old city of York, Upper Canada. It starts at Queen's quay, and heads north to South Drive. It is two lanes for its entire length, though the part south of Bloor has bike lanes.

It was named by Samuel Smith Ridout (son of Thomas Ridout) in 1845 after the town in Dorset, England; the Ridout family emigrated from Sherborne to Maryland in 1774.^[2] Before 1845 the short stretch from Palace Street (now Front Street East) to Duchess Street (now Richmond Street) was called Caroline Street.

^ Mary Ormsby (November 29, 2009). "Sherbourne: Toronto's 'city in one street'". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on July 15, 2013. From its origins two centuries ago, Sherbourne reflected what the city of York would become – a duelling ground where privilege, poverty and politics would battle to shape the metropolis. Those duels aren't over.
^ Wise, Leonard; Gould, Allan (2000). Toronto Street Names. Firefly Books. pp. 193–194. ISBN 1-55209-386-7.

[TorStar2009-11-29-1] Mary Ormsby (November 29, 2009). "Sherbourne: Toronto's 'city in one street'". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on July 15, 2013. From its origins two centuries ago, Sherbourne reflected what the city of York would become – a duelling ground where privilege, poverty and politics would battle to shape the metropolis. Those duels aren't over.

[2] Wise, Leonard; Gould, Allan (2000). Toronto Street Names. Firefly Books. pp. 193–194. ISBN 1-55209-386-7.

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