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Kipling Avenue, originally named Mimico Avenue,〔Mimico, Etobicoke Township, York County, Province of Ontario, Chas. E. GOAD, 1890〕 is a street in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a concession road, 6 concessions (12 km) from Yonge Street, and is a major north–south arterial road that also extends beyond Toronto, into the Regional Municipality of York. The street was surveyed in 1795 as a Meridian Street south of the east-west Meridian (now Rathburn Road) with lots to the east running east–west and lots to the west running north–south,〔Survey of the Southern Part of Etobicoke Township, Abraham Iredell, 1795, Archives of Ontario〕 a pattern later subdivisions preserved in modern side streets. Most of the road traverses residential neighbourhoods and pockets of industrial and commercial hubs. The street goes through such areas as New Toronto, Etobicoke Centre, Richview, and Rexdale. Originally named Mimico Avenue, the street became a central street for the lake shore municipalities of New Toronto (in which it is situated) and Long Branch. It is believed (but unproven) that the street was named in honour of Rudyard Kipling, author of such works as ''The Jungle Book'' and the ''Just So Stories'', in preparation for a planned visit to Woodbridge in 1907. Kipling cancelled at the last moment, but the street retained the name. The Kipling Avenue section in the Town of New Toronto also reverted to its alternate name, Eighteenth Street, at least twice. The Toronto Transit Commission's 45 Kipling and 44 Kipling South bus routes operate from Kipling Station on the Bloor-Danforth line. These surface routes provide service along the length of the road. Kipling Avenue was extended south of Lake Shore Boulevard West with the development of the former Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital grounds. In 2001 City Council renamed the southerly extension as "Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive", after rejecting the City Surveyor's original suggestion of Eighteenth Street.〔http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/2001/agendas/council/cc010306/et2rpt/cl012.pdf〕 The Six Points interchange with Bloor and Ontario's early Toronto-Hamilton highway, now Dundas has traditionally been Etobicoke's central intersection. In 1953 Etobicoke left York County and joined the newly formed urban region Metropolitan Toronto launching a period of urbanisation which included changing the Six Points intersection to use a number of bridges in 1961. The street is now scheduled to be reconfigured to create an at-grade intersection.〔(Six Points Interchange Reconfiguration - EA goes to committee on November 29th | Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation )〕 Film studio complex Kipling Studio located on 777 Kipling Avenue is part of Cinespace Film Studios. ==Landmarks== Sights along Kipling Avenue in Toronto (north to south): * North Humber Park * North Kipling Park * North Kipling Junior Middle School * North Albion Collegiate Institute * Albion Centre * Albion Arena * Toronto Public Library Rexdale branch * Kipling Heights Plaza * Toronto Public Library Northern Elms branch * Mississauga Private School * Monsignor Percy Johnson C.S.S. * Etobicoke North GO Station * Westway Plaza * Dixon Grove Junior Middle School * Denfield Park * Islington Golf Club * Six Points interchange * Kipling subway station * Kipling GO Station * Kipling-Queensway Mall * Mimico Correctional Centre * New Toronto Secondary School, now Lakeshore Collegiate Institute * Humber College Lakeshore campus * Father John Redmond Catholic Secondary School * Colonel Samuel Smith Park 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kipling Avenue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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