Yonge Street facts for kids

A Yonge Street sign in the Downtown Yonge design

Yonge Street at North York Centre.

Yonge Street (pronounced "young") is a main street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and its northern suburbs. It was once listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world and is listed as a national historic site. It was the site of Canada's first subway line.

Yonge Street is the home of or close to many places of interest in Toronto, including street and theatre acts, the Eaton Centre, the Hockey Hall of Fame and–at the very start of the road–'One Yonge Street', the offices of the Toronto Star newspaper. The Yonge Line of the Toronto subway under or along it from south of King Street to Finch Avenue. The Viva Blue BRT line goes along Yonge from Finch to Newmarket Bus Terminal.

Cultural significance

Yonge Street is thought to be Toronto's main street, because of it splits the city into east and west, and the has the Yonge subway line running under it. It is also the main place people come to celebrate events.

Parts of the street are often closed for events, such as an yearly street party. Toronto's annual Gay Pride, Orange Order, and Santa Claus parades also use Yonge Street for a large part of their routes. Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has a song about Yonge Street, titled "On Yonge Street", on his album A Painter Passing Through.

2018 van incident

On April 23, 2018 a white van collided with numerous pedestrians killing nine and injuring sixteen others at Yonge Street.

Places of interest

College Park, located at Yonge and College.

• Hockey Hall of Fame
• Eaton Centre
• Toronto Star Building at One Yonge Street
• Toronto Reference Library

Related pages

• Steeles Avenue
• 2018 Toronto van incident

• The Yonge Street Story (1793-1860), by F. R. Berchem, Natural Heritage Books, Toronto, 1977

Images for kids

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  Celebration of the end of the Boer War, Yonge Street, 31 May 1900

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  Northwest corner of Yonge and Dundas, 1926

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  (Click to enlarge) Route of Yonge St. compared to Hwy. 11

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  Looking south along Yonge Street, near the intersection with Wellesley Street

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  A Route 99 Yonge South YRT bus

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  The foot of Yonge Street at Toronto Bay, Lake Ontario

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In Spanish: Yonge Street para niños