Bathurst Street

Bathurst Street is a main north-south thoroughfare in Toronto. It begins at an intersection of the Queen's Quay roadway, just north of the Lake Ontario shoreline. It continues north through Toronto to the Toronto boundary of Steeles Avenue. It is a four-lane thoroughfare throughout Toronto. The roadway continues north into York Region where it is known as York Regional Road 38. Bathurst Street begins in the south at the intersection with Queen's Quay. The southernmost part of Bathurst, south of the Gardiner Expressway, was heavily industrialized until the 1970s. These factories are mostly gone; in their place some residential development has occurred, including the extended Queen's Quay. The former Omni Television headquarters are...