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- Davenport Road is an east–west arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is believed to follow an old native trail along the foot of the scarp of the old shoreline of glacial Lake Iroquois. It currently runs from Yonge Street in the east to Old Weston Road in the west. The road is believed to follow part of a First Nations trail, connecting the Don River and the Humber River. It was known as "Gete-Onigaming," Ojibwe for "at the old portage." From the Don River, the trail followed the Rosedale Valley Road up to the current Davenport Road. The trail followed Davenport to Old Weston Road and St. Clair Avenue, then west along St. Clair to the Lambton area, then followed the route of the current Dundas Street to the Humber. The trail, which continued along the modern route of Kingston Road east of the Don, and what is now Dundas Street west of the Humber. The Toronto portion of the trail had several earlier names, including "Plank Road", "Bull Road", and "the new road to Niagara"—but by 1797, it was known as Davenport Road. The section east of Bathurst Street was originally a part of Vaughan Road. The road was named after the 1797 Davenport house of soldier John McGill, situated in the vicinity of the northeast corner of Bathurst and Davenport. It was likely named for Major Davenport stationed at Fort York. Colonel Joseph Wells bought the property and demolished the house 1821 McGill's estate. Wells served as a legislator, bank director and treasurer of Upper Canada College. George Dupont Wells, his son, inspired the naming of Dupont Street and Wells Hill Avenue. The road was paved outside of York, Upper Canada in 1833, with the improvements to be paid for by tolls. Tollkeepers' cottages were constructed every few kilometres, the cottage near what is now the intersection of Bathurst Street and Davenport Road surviving to the present day. During the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion rebel leader William Lyon Mackenzie personally burned the home of Dr. a prominent Tory, at the corner of Davenport Road and Yonge Street. On April 20, 1891 the newly incorporated Davenport Street Railway Company was awarded rights to operate a streetcar by West Toronto Junction. When the route began operation on September 6, 1892, it was the second electrified streetcar line in the Toronto area—earlier routes being horse-drawn.The route ran from Keele and Dundas streets to Bathurst and Dupont streets. In 1894, the Davenport Street Railway Company was purchased by the Toronto Suburban Street Railway Company, which was in turn acquired by the owners of the Canadian Northern Railway. The line had originally used a broad gauge, like Toronto's other streetcar lines—so railway companies couldn't run freight on ordinary streets. Although it was later changed to standard gauge no freight was ever carried. In 1896, The Daily Mail and Empire published a letter from a reader responding to recent article on roads requiring repair in Toronto described Davenport as being in "simply disgraceful condition". The reader described Davenport Road, and several other roads, as being "block paved", and complained "this kind of pavement is anything but durable"—due either to Toronto's climate, or poor construction. In 1912, the farm at the south-west corner of Bathurst Street and Davenport became the Hillcrest Racetrack of Abe Orpen. The track was only open for a few years, closing in 1916. The site is now the Hillcrest Yard of the Toronto Transit Commission. In 1994, bicycle lanes were added to Davenport Road. (en)
- 德文璞道（英語：Davenport Road）是加拿大安大略省多倫多的一條東西向的主幹道。它被認為是沿著易洛魁冰川湖舊海岸線陡坡腳下的一條古老的原住民小徑。它目前東起央街，西至舊（Old Weston Road）。 這條道路以1797年軍人莊·麥基爾（John McGill）的Davenport house命名，位於今巴佛士街（Bathurst Street）夾德文璞道的東北角附近。它可能是以駐紮在約克堡的德文璞少校（Major Davenport）命名。約瑟·威士上校（Colonel Joseph Wells）買下了這處房產，並拆除了1821年麥基爾所建的房子。威士曾擔任上加拿大書院（Upper Canada College）的校務管理機構成員、銀行董事及司庫員。他的兒子佐治·杜邦·威士（George Dupont Wells）啟發了杜邦街（Dupont Street）及威士山路（Wells Hill Avenue）的命名。 這條路於1833年在上加拿大約克城外鋪設，修繕費用由通行費支付。每隔數公里就有一座收費員的小屋，靠近今巴佛士街夾德文璞道，小屋一直保存至現今。 在1837年上加拿大起義期間，叛軍領袖威廉·萊昂·麥肯齊親手焚毀了著名保守黨人R. C. Horne博士在德文璞道夾央街處的住宅。 1912年，位於巴佛士街夾德文璞道西南角的農場成為Abe Orpen的山巒馬場（Hillcrest Racetrack）。這條賽道只開放了數年，於1916年關閉。該地點現為多倫多公車局的Hillcrest Yard。 1994年，單車徑被添加至到德文璞道。 (zh)
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