Sheppard Avenue (Toronto)

Sheppard Avenue
Twyn Rivers Drive
Sheppard Ave. (Red) and Twyn Rivers Dr. (Green) within Toronto
Route information
Maintained by City of Toronto City of Pickering
Major junctions
West end:	Weston Road
	Jane Street Keele Street Allen Road (To Dufferin Street north) Bathurst Street Yonge Street Bayview Avenue Leslie Street Don Mills Road  Highway 404 Victoria Park Avenue Warden Avenue Kennedy Road McCowan Road Markham Road Neilson Road Morningside Avenue Meadowvale Road ------Road branches------ Atona Road (Pickering) Whites Road (Pickering)
East end:	Toronto: Kingston Road (Continues south as Port Union Road) Pickering: Fairport Road
Location
Major cities:	Toronto Pickering
Highway system
Roads in Ontario Nearby arterial roads ← Wilson Avenue York Mills Road Ellesmere Road Kingston Road Sheppard Avenue Finch Avenue →

Roads in Ontario

Sheppard Avenue is an east–west principal arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The street has two distinct branches near its eastern end, with the original route being a collector road leading to Pickering via a turnoff, and the main route following a later-built roadway which runs south to Kingston Road. To avoid name duplication, the Toronto portion of the northern branch was renamed Twyn Rivers Drive. The section of the street entirely in Toronto is (34.2 km) in length, while the Pickering section and Twyn Rivers Dr. is (5.4 km) long.

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. In the mid-2010s, a commercial building was constructed on the original site.

In the former Scarborough municipality, Sheppard was once called the Lansing Sideroad.

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