Sheppard Avenue
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| Lansing Road (North York Township) | |||||||
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| Maintained by City of Toronto | |||||||
| Length: | 32.1 km (19.9 mi) | ||||||
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| Major cities: | Toronto | ||||||
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| Maintained by Pickering | |||||||
| Length: | 2.5 km (1.6 mi) | ||||||
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| Major cities: | Pickering | ||||||
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Sheppard Avenue is an east-west principal arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A small portion (2.5 km) of a continuation of the road in Pickering, Ontario is also called Sheppard Avenue from Altona Road and Fairport Avenue.
Sheppard is named for Joseph Sheppard I, who acquired 400 acres (160 ha) of land at the northwest corner of Sheppard and Yonge Street. His son opened a general store there. The site was occupied in 1860 by the Dempsey Hardware Store, which was later moved and restored as a museum. Since the mid-2010s, the former site is developed as a commercial building.
In the former Scarborough municipality, Sheppard was once called the Lansing Sideroad.
East of Yonge Street, Sheppard travels east through North York to Highway 404. Historically, it continued straight to Victoria Park Avenue at the Scarborough border, where travellers then turned south to meet up with the Sheppard section through Scarborough. However, a new section called the Lansing Cutoff was constructed joining the two disconnected pieces. The orphaned section of Sheppard between the 404 and Victoria Park was renamed Old Sheppard Avenue. 43°46′34″N 79°20′13″W / 43.77611°N 79.33694°W
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