Davenport Road

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Davenport Road is a historic arterial street in Toronto, Ontario, running diagonally northwest from the downtown core and following an old Indigenous trail along the foot of the escarpment.

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Label Occurrences
Davenport Road canonical 2

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf arterial road
historic road
street
country Canada
follows Indigenous trail
ancient Indigenous trail
hasCulturalContext Indigenous heritage route in Toronto
early European settlement route in Toronto
hasFunction connects downtown Toronto to midtown and west-end areas
hasHistoricalSignificance one of Toronto’s oldest roads
pre-European Indigenous travel route
hasHistoricalUse Indigenous footpath
colonial-era road
hasLaneCount multiple lanes
hasNameOrigin Davenport family NERFINISHED
named after Davenport House
hasNeighbourhoodAlong Corso Italia area NERFINISHED
Davenport neighbourhood
Hillcrest area NERFINISHED
Seaton Village area NERFINISHED
The Annex NERFINISHED
Wychwood area NERFINISHED
Yorkville area NERFINISHED
hasRoadType urban arterial
hasSurface paved
hasTopographicalContext base of former Lake Iroquois shoreline escarpment
hasTransportRole major east–west diagonal corridor
hasUrbanForm mixed residential and commercial frontage
isMaintainedBy City of Toronto government NERFINISHED
isPartOfHistoricRoute Toronto Carrying-Place Trail NERFINISHED
locatedAlong foot of the escarpment
locatedIn Ontario
Toronto
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory City of Toronto NERFINISHED
orientation diagonal
partOf Toronto street network NERFINISHED
runsDirection northwest
runsFrom downtown Toronto core
usedFor public transit routes
vehicular traffic

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bay Street terminusNorth Davenport Road
Spadina Avenue terminusNorth Davenport Road