The Yonge Street as conceived by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe is celebrated, from its beginning as a First Nation’s Trail, to the Yonge Street we know today, extending from Toronto to Innisfil. Augustus Jones, the surveyor assigned by Simcoe, the French, the German pioneers, the Loyalists – all were to influence the building of Yonge Street. With the building of a route came tolls, inns, villages, more immigrants and ultimately an avenue of economy serving as the key transportation route for the people, goods and services that represent our province.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 139) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.3/54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Originally published: Toronto [Ont.] : Natural Heritage/Natural History, 1998 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 1896219497 9781554880461
- LCCN
- F1059.5.T6875
- LCCN Item number
- A15 1998eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaBNVSL
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- 1 electronic text (143 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00603217 (OCoLC)719744263 (CaOOCEL)410610
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Two hundred years Yonge
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- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Contents 3
- Introduction 4
- BUILDING OF YONGE STREET 9
- First Nations' Trail 5
- Toronto's Founder 9
- The French Regime 11
- Augustus Jones, Surveyor 15
- German Pioneers Build Yonge Street 17
- EARLY SETTLERS 19
- Township Papers 19
- Original Patentees 21
- The First Loyalists onYonge Street 23
- Yonge Buildings at Black Creek 27
- WHY WE NEED ROADS 29
- Augustus Jones' Yonge Street 29
- Upper Canada's Roads in 1796 30
- The Governor's Road 31
- Transportation 32
- Modern Trucking Starts onYonge 35
- Roads & Tolls 37
- TOWNS ALONG YONGE STREET 39
- Yorkville 39
- Deer Park 41
- City of York 43
- North Toronto 47
- NorthYork 51
- Richmond Hill 55
- Aurora 57
- Newmarket 61
- Holland Landing 67
- Bradford West Gwillimbury 71
- Innisfil 75
- SOCIAL HISTORY 79
- Farms 79
- Natural Heritage 81
- Inns, Hotels & Taverns 83
- Parades 89
- Theatres 91
- Places of Worship 93
- Upper Yonge Cemeteries 101
- Newspapers 109
- A ROYAL PERSPECTIVE 111
- GALBRAITH PHOTOGRAPHS 115
- YONGE STREET CELEBRATIONS 125
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 137
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 140
- INDEX 141
- A 141
- B 141
- C 141
- D 141
- E 141
- F 141
- G 141
- H 141
- I 141
- J 141
- K 141
- L 141
- M 141
- N 142
- O 142
- P 142
- Q 142
- R 142
- S 142
- T 142
- U 142
- V 142
- W 142
- Y 142
- SOURCES/REFERENCES 143
