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{{Short description|Road in Toronto, Canada}}
{{Infobox street
| name = Kipling Avenue
| marker_image = [[File:KiplingAvenueSign.png|200px]] [[File:Kipling_Av_YR.png|225px]]
| other_name =
| image = Kipling Ave map.png
| caption = Kipling Ave. within Toronto
| maint = City of Toronto City of Vaughan
| length_km = 26.4
| length_mi =
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| length_notes =
| location = [[Toronto]] [[Vaughan]]
| direction_a = South
| terminus_a = [[Lake Shore Boulevard]]
| direction_b = North
| terminus_b = King-Vaughan Road
| junction = [[Gardiner Expressway]] [[The Queensway]] [[Bloor Street]] / [[Dundas Street (Toronto)|Dundas Street]] [[Burnhamthorpe Road]] [[Eglinton Avenue]] [[Dixon Road]] {{jcon|Hwy|409}} [[Rexdale Boulevard]] [[Albion Road (Toronto)|Albion Road]] [[Finch Avenue]] [[Steeles Avenue]] '''------Course Break------''' [[File:York Regional Road 7.svg|16px]] [[Ontario Highway 7|Highway 7]] [[File:York Regional Road 72.svg|16px]] [[List of numbered roads in York Region|Langstaff Road]] '''------Course Break------''' [[File:York Regional Road 49.svg|16px]] Teston Road
| inauguration_date =
| demolition_date =
| browse =
}}

'''Kipling Avenue''' is a street in the cities of [[Toronto]] and [[Vaughan, Ontario|Vaughan]] in [[Ontario]], Canada. It is a [[concession road]], 6 concessions (12 km) west from [[Yonge Street]], and is a major north–south [[arterial road]]. It consists of three separate sections, with total combined length of 26.4 km. (16.4 mi.).

The street travels through the district of [[Etobicoke]] and serves areas such as [[New Toronto]], [[Islington-City Centre West|Etobicoke Centre]], [[Richview, Toronto|Richview]], and [[Rexdale]], passing through residential neighbourhoods and pockets of industrial and commercial areas. The [[Toronto Transit Commission]]'s 45 Kipling, 44 Kipling South, 944 Kipling South Express and 945 Kipling Express bus routes operate from [[Kipling Station]] on the [[Bloor-Danforth line]]. These surface routes provide service along the length of the road.

Film studio complex Kipling Studio located on 777 Kipling Avenue is part of [[Cinespace Film Studios]].<ref name="Cinespace">{{cite web|date=December 15, 2009|title=Toronto's Cinespace Film Studios Announces New Film Studio Development|url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Torontos-Cinespace-Film-Studios-Announces-New-Film-Studio-Development-1091417.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911164937/http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Torontos-Cinespace-Film-Studios-Announces-New-Film-Studio-Development-1091417.htm|archive-date=September 11, 2011|access-date=October 18, 2011|work=[[Marketwire]]}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Old woodbridge circa 1850.jpg|thumb|Kipling Avenue (then Eighth Avenue) in [[Woodbridge, Ontario|Woodbridge]], circa 1850]]
[[File:Kipling Bridge West Branch Humber.jpg|thumb|Looking north on Kipling Avenue in 1955 towards the bridge over the west branch of the [[Humber River (Ontario)|Humber River]] after it was washed out by [[Hurricane Hazel]].]]

Originally named '''Mimico Avenue''',<ref>Mimico, Etobicoke Township, York County, Province of Ontario, Chas. E. GOAD, 1890</ref> the street was surveyed in 1795 as a Meridian road south of the east-west Meridian (now Rathburn Road) with lots to the east running east–west and lots to the west running north–south,<ref>Survey of the Southern Part of Etobicoke Township, Abraham Iredell, 1795, Archives of Ontario</ref> the street became a central street for the lake shore municipalities of [[New Toronto]] (in which it is situated) and [[Long Branch, Toronto|Long Branch]]. It is believed (but unproven) that the street was named in honour of [[Rudyard Kipling]], author of such works as ''[[The Jungle Book]]'' and the ''[[Just So Stories]]'', in preparation for a planned visit to [[Woodbridge, Ontario|Woodbridge]] in 1907. Kipling cancelled at the last moment, but the street retained the name.<ref>{{cite book |title = Toronto Street Names
|first1 = Leonard
|last1 = Wise
|first2 = Allan
|last2 = Gould
|publisher = Firefly Books
|year = 2000
|page = [https://archive.org/details/torontostreetnam0000wise/page/128 128]
|isbn = 1-55209-386-7
|url = https://archive.org/details/torontostreetnam0000wise/page/128
}}</ref>

The Kipling Avenue section in the Town of New Toronto also reverted to its alternate name, '''Eighteenth Street''', at least twice. The section in Woodbridge, was named '''Eighth Avenue'''.

Kipling Avenue was extended south of Lake Shore Boulevard West with the development of the former Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital grounds. In 2001 City Council renamed the southerly extension as "Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive", after rejecting the City Surveyor's original suggestion of Eighteenth Street.<ref>http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/2001/agendas/council/cc010306/et2rpt/cl012.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>

The Six Points interchange with [[Bloor Street|Bloor]] and Ontario's early Toronto-to-Hamilton highway, now [[Dundas Street (Toronto)|Dundas]] has traditionally been Etobicoke's central intersection. In 1953 Etobicoke left York County and joined the newly formed [[Metropolitan Toronto]] launching a period of urbanization which included changing the Six Points intersection to use a number of bridges in 1961.<ref name="Six Points almost open">{{cite news|title=Six Points Interchange|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=1961-08-08|location=Toronto|page=13}}</ref> In 2017, construction started on a project to remove the interchange and replace it with at-grade intersections. In March 2019, the interchange was closed and the bridges were removed.<ref name="sixpoints2">{{cite news |last1=Bingley |first1=Matthew |title=Demolition begins for Etobicoke's Six-Points-Interchange improvements |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/5039140/demolition-begins-etobicoke-six-points-interchange/ |access-date=16 February 2020 |work=Global News |date=9 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

==Landmarks==
Sights along Kipling Avenue in Toronto (north to south):
* North Humber Park
* North Kipling Park
* [[North Kipling Junior Middle School]]
* [[North Albion Collegiate Institute]]
* St. Andrew Catholic School
* Albion Centre
* Albion Arena
* [[Toronto Public Library]] [[Rexdale]] branch
* Kipling Heights Plaza
* Toronto Public Library Northern Elms branch
* Mississauga Private School
* Heatherbrae Middle School, now known as [[Monsignor Percy Johnson Catholic High School]]
* [[Etobicoke North GO Station]]
* Westway Plaza
* Dixon Grove Junior Middle School
* Denfield Park
* Islington Golf Club
* Six Points interchange
* [[Kipling (TTC)|Kipling subway station]]
* [[Kipling GO Station]]
* Kipling-[[The Queensway (Toronto)|Queensway]] Mall
* [[Mimico Correctional Centre]]
* New Toronto Secondary School, now [[Lakeshore Collegiate Institute]]
* [[Humber College]] Lakeshore campus
* [[Father John Redmond Catholic Secondary School]]
* [[Colonel Samuel Smith Park]]

==Beyond Toronto==
Kipling Avenue remains one of two streets to go north of [[Steeles Avenue]] (due to the short southward bend of Steeles) and still be within the City of Toronto (the other being Midland Avenue). It ends abruptly at the Toronto-Vaughan border. North of that border, Kipling is a broken street and appears briefly from [[York Regional Road 7|Highway 7]] to [[York Regional Road 72|Langstaff Road]]. Its original alignment becomes Clarence Street until Major Mackenzie Road. It begins abruptly again south of Teston Road before finally terminating at King-Vaughan Road.

==See also==
* [[Kipling Collegiate Institute]]

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=Lake+Shore+Blvd+W+%26+Kipling+Ave+Etobicoke,+ON&daddr=Kipling+Ave+%4043.631190,+-79.530900+to:Kipling+Ave+%26+Steeles+Ave+W+Etobicoke,+ON&sll=43.675321,-79.462738&sspn=0.208583,0.466919&ie=UTF8&ll=43.678798,-79.553375&spn=0.208571,0.466919&z=11&om=1 Google Maps of Kipling Avenue]

{{Streets in Toronto}}
{{Roads in Vaughan}}

[[Category:Roads in Toronto]]
[[Category:Roads in the Regional Municipality of York]]
[[Category:Transport in Etobicoke]]

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