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388: 733: 716: 769: 788: 697: 129: 135: 614: 595: 575: 1756: 556: 259: 144: 752: 678: 373: 25: 659: 640: 1658: 814: 491:. The opening of Victoria Park subway station in 1968 led to the creation of the 24 Victoria Park, replacing the Dawes Road bus on Victoria Park. It first ran to Victoria Park and Old Sheppard Avenue, but has steadily been extended northwards. With the opening of 486:
Historically the first bus to service the street were private routes that operated along Dawes Road, and then north along Victoria Park. This route was taken over by the TTC in 1954, and offered service as far north as Victoria Park and
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Victoria Park Avenue was originally a pioneer road for settlement of Scarborough. Except for its very southernmost section (south of Bracken Avenue), the road once formed the boundary for the former
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Also beginning in 1968, the portion of Victoria Park south of Victoria Park station began to be served by the 12 Kingston Road bus. This bus travels south of the station until
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into Markham. The 224 went back to the older alignment with the 24D Victoria Park branch in 2016, then was replaced by the 24 Woodbine bus operated by
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community. It takes a sharp jog west just before Bracken Avenue, and then continues in a straight line northward.
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Victoria Park remains one of the busiest north-south streets in Scarborough, along with
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were once part of Walter Massey’s Dentonia Park dairy farm that supplied milk to his
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Victoria Park Avenue begins as a two-lane residential street near Lake Ontario at
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Victoria Park is a narrow residential street as it climbs the western edge of the
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and then turns east along Kingston to travel into Scarborough. It stops at
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amusement park that operated south of Queen Street from 1878 until 1906.
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It remains a two-lane residential street past Bracken Avenue north to
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Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Church
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the route is a mixed commercial and light industrial street.
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Victoria Park Avenue ends a short distance north of
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