Keele Street
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Keele Street is a north-south road in Toronto and York Region ( York Regional Road 6) in Ontario Canada, running from Bloor Street in Toronto to the Holland Marsh.
Most of Keele runs directly along a former concession road (Third line west of Yonge Street) allowance with a brief cut-offs at St. Clair Avenue West, where the roadway becomes Weston Road, and is deviated from its routing by the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railway corridors, and then resumes south of Eglinton Avenue, where there is a minor jog via Trethewey Drive and Yore Road. At Steeles Avenue, the road allowance between Toronto and Vaughan Townships was connected in the early 1960s. North of King City, the Regional Road status ends at the Lloydtown - Aurora Road, and at the Holland River, turns eastwards on King Street, meeting Dufferin Street in the hamlet of Ansnorveldt.
Major sites along Keele:
- York University - Keele campus, including Seneca @ York
- High Park at Keele and Bloor. South of Bloor, the roadway is known as Parkside Drive, and ends at Lake Shore Boulevard near Sunnyside Beach, site of the former Sunnyside Amusement Park.
- Downsview Park, Western Limits.
- Keele Subway Station, briefly the west terminus of the Bloor-Danforth (TTC) subway (1966-1968)
- Maple, former village where Vaughan's City Hall is located.
- King City, centre of King Township.
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