York Mills Road
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York Mills Road is a east-west route in Toronto, Ontario, Canada named for the community of York Mills or Hoggs Hollow. The name York refers to the former County of York, containing the county town (pre-1834), the forerunner to modern day Toronto and Mills refers to the grist and saw mills that dotted the west Don River valley from 1804 until 1926.
The street, a former Concession Road, runs east of Yonge Street and ends at Victoria Park Avenue; however, near Victoria Park most of the traffic pattern follows Parkwoods Village Drive to connect to Ellesmere Road. This is a direct alternative to the nearby Highway 401.
In the 1970s, when the Toronto Transit Commission extended the Yonge Street subway line north from the Eglinton Avenue terminus, a new roadway alignment from York Mills to Wilson Avenue was completed to accommodate the new York Mills subway station. A new bridge on Wilson was constructed over the Don River (West Branch) just west of Yonge Street.
The York Mills subway station includes a platform for several local bus routes as well as GO Transit bus connections to the north (Newmarket), west (Brampton), and east (Oshawa).
