Birchmount Road

Birchmount Road is a north-south road in Scarborough, the eastern district of Toronto. One of the original concession roads, it begins near the Scarborough Bluffs at the lakeshore and ends in Markham north of 14th Avenue, at Royal Crest Court and is being expanded so it goes under Highway 407 and connects with Village Parkway which is currently ends at Highway 7. Like Warden Avenue, Birchmount Road is a mix of residential/light industrial development typical of bedroom communities in Toronto. Birchmount began as a concession lines laid out by the surveyors of Upper Canada. For a long time, it remained a rural and little used route. In the 1920s, it was little more than a dirt path. The southern part of Birchmount was one of the first...