Sherbourne Street, Toronto

For other uses, see Sherbourne Street.

Sherbourne Street is an important roadway in Downtown Toronto. It is one of the original streets in the old city of York, Upper Canada.

It was named by Samuel Ridout in 1845 after the town in Dorset, England; the Ridout family emigrated from Sherborne.

In 1838, following the Upper Canada Rebellion, seven blockhouses were built, guarding the approaches to Toronto, including the Sherbourne Blockhouse, built at the current intersection of Sherbourne and Bloor.

In the 19th Century Sherbourne was lined with the stately homes of many of Toronto's most prominent families, but by the 20th Century remaining stately houses, like 230 Sherbourne Street had been converted to rooming houses.

A streetcar ran down Sherbourne from 1874-1942.

In the early 2000s City Council chose Sherbourne as one of the first streets in Toronto to be retrofitted with dedicated bike lanes. In 2012 Sherbourne's bike lanes were improved, changing them from lanes separated from cars and trucks solely by painted lines to lanes with a pavement change that would warn motorists when they had strayed out of their lanes.

Landmarks

Landmark	Cross street	Notes	Image
Rosedale Ravine			100px
Sherbourne Subway Station	Bloor Street		100px
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church			100px
James Cooper House	Linden Street
Our Lady of Lourdes Church	Earl Street		100px
Phoenix Concert Theatre			100px
St. James Town Branch of the Toronto Public Library	Wellesley Street		100px
St. Luke's United Church	Carlton Street
Allan Gardens	between Gerrard Street East and Carlton Street		100px
Allandale House	Dundas Street East
Moss Park	between Queen Street East and Shuter Street		100px
Paul Bishop's House	Adelaide Street East
National Hotel	King Street East		100px
Sherbourne Common	Queens Quay		100px

External links

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