* 1795 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada ( present-day Toronto, Ontario ).

From 1969 until the late 1980s, Hee Haw was produced by Yongestreet Productions, named after Yonge Street, a major thoroughfare in Toronto.

* 1954 – The Yonge Street subway line opens in Toronto.

Mary Martin told Dylan to visit the group at the Yonge Street club called the Le Coq d ' Or Tavern – though Robbie Robertson recollects it was the Friar's Tavern, just down the street.

It is roughly bounded by Gould Street to the south, Yonge Street to the west, Charles Street to the north, and Jarvis Street to the east, with the intersection of Church and Wellesley Streets at the centre of this area.

Roads radiating from Toronto required users to pay at toll gates along the street ( Yonge Street, Bloor Street, Davenport Road, Kingston Road ) and disappeared after 1895.

In September 2012, the City of Toronto used Kitchener ’ s King Street as a model for Celebrate Yonge — a month-long event which reduced Yonge Street to two lanes, widening sidewalks to improve the commercial street for businesses and pedestrians alike.

In 1971, the Toronto Daily Star was renamed The Toronto Star and moved to a modern office tower at One Yonge Street by Queens Quay.

One Yonge Street – Current head office, built in 1970

* One Yonge Street – Current office space of the paper

On May 1, 1996, the station finally moved from its old studio in Brampton to a new facility at 228 Yonge Street in downtown Toronto.

On September 13, 2010, the Edge left its longtime home studio at 228 Yonge Street for a new studio at the Corus Quay, at 25 Dockside Drive.

Hamilton Tire & Garage was sold in 1923 and the Billes brothers moved several times before they settled their site at 639 Yonge Street.

In 1937, Canadian Tire moved into the new Main store at 837 Yonge Street, after completing extensive alterations to what once was the Grand Central Market.

As a result of his efforts to promote development around Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue, the area unofficially became known as the " new downtown " with many office towers and condos springing up in a formerly suburban area.

At the time of its creation in the early-1990s, it was housed on the grounds of the former base and subsequently moved ca 1993 to the Place Nouveau office tower at Yonge Street north of Finch Avenue ; this was controversial as the offices of the Area Commander, Major-General Brian Vernon, were lavishly renovated, attracting political criticism and attention from the Auditor General of Canada.

The county was named after its county seat, which in turn was named after Geneva, New York which was named after Geneva, Switzerland, by Walter H. Yonge, an early town resident and Swiss native.

The township was named after Puslinch House in Devon, England, where Elizabeth Yonge, the wife of Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada Sir John Colborne, was born.

* St. Andrew's ( named for Saint Andrew )- bounded by Dufferin, King, Queen, and Yonge Streets-St. Andrew's Church ( Toronto ) is located within the ward

* St. George's ( named for Saint George )-bounded by King, Yonge, Dufferin Streets and lakefront

* St. Lawrence's ( named for Lawrence of Rome )-bounded by Queen, Yonge, lakefront, McGee

* St. Patrick's ( named for Saint Patrick )-bounded by Yonge, Bathurst, Queen and College Streets ( now part of Trinity-Spadina )-St. Patrick's Church is located within this ward

* St. Stephen's ( named for Saint Stephen )-bounded by Yonge, Bathurst, Queen and Dufferin Streets

* St. James's ( named for James, son of Zebedee )-bounded by Yonge, Jarvis, King and Bloor-Cathedral Church of St. James is located within the ward

The name dates from 1837, when the Heath family purchased 40 acres ( 162, 000 m² ) of land on the northwest corner of Yonge and St. Clair ( then the Third Concession Road ) and named it Deer Park.

Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet, KCB, PC ( 1731 – 25 September 1812 ) was a British Secretary at War ( 1782 – 1783 and 1783 – 1794 ) and the namesake of Yonge Street, a principal road in Toronto, Canada, which was named in 1793 by the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe.

Front Mills Road, Escott-Yonge Townline Road in Front of Yonge Township in Mallorytown, Ontario are likely named for him as well.

* Yonge Street and Dundas Street: the men after whom they were named: a paper from the Canadian journal of literature, science and history.

Part of the area is also known as Hoggs Hollow, named for James Hogg, a Scottish settler who settled in the area in 1824 and operated the mill on Yonge Street at the Don River north of the Town of York ( now Toronto ), by his sons John and William in 1856.

Macaulay's cottage, ' Teraulay ' was then situated on an estate named Macaulay's Fields which extended from present day Yonge to Bay ( then known as Teraulay ) Streets, and from today's Albert Street ( then known as Jeremy Street ) to just south of Dundas Street.

Mabel's modern usage was subsequent to the 1853 publication of the novel The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge which featured a character-who was Irish-named Mabel Kilcoran ; Yonge's novel also features a character named Amabel but her novel only boosted the popularity of the name in the form Mabel which became immensely popular in both the British Isles and the United States.

The use of the element " Ethel " as an independent name is modern probably being initiated in the mid-19th century due to the name's being borne by characters in novels by W. M. Thackeray ( The Newcomes-1855 ) and Charlotte Mary Yonge ( The Daisy Chain whose heroine Ethel's full name is Etheldred-1856 ); the actress Ethel Barrymore-born 1879-was named after The Newcomes character.

Lawrence Avenue was named for Jacob Lawrence, a tanner and farmer in the area of Yonge Street and Lawrence Avenue.

Originally Lawrence Avenue only ran east of Yonge Street, with the road heading west to Weston being named McDougall Avenue

Sheppard is named for Joseph Sheppard I, who acquired of land at the northwest corner of Sheppard and Yonge Street.

Development of the new location, the former Bank of Montreal at the corner of Yonge and Front Streets in Toronto, began soon after.

New developments continually consume space year after and are especially focused along the Yonge Street corridor from Vaughan / Richmond Hill in the south to Newmarket / Aurora in the north.

The connection north to Lake Simcoe was then made along Yonge Street, constructed after Simcoe followed the eastern branch into Toronto.

During the early twentieth century, Kensingston become populated by eastern European Jewish immigrants and some Italians, who occupied " The Ward ", an overcrowded immigrant-reception area between Yonge Street and University Avenue, in large numbers after around 1910.

Many sequences for it were shot at the Queen Street West and Yonge Street store after hours.

The Yonge corridor between Finch and Sheppard Avenues grew extensively after the opening of the subway station.

The Mississauga offices were closed in 2005-06 after Procter & Gamble acquired Gillette, and Gillette's Canadian headquarters are located in downtown Toronto with parent Procter & Gamble on Yonge St.

In 2005, Highway 7 was made the second main arterial for York Region's VIVA rapid transit service ( after Yonge Street ).

The Miller Tavern ( formerly the Jolly Miller Tavern ), circa 1857, located at the bottom of Hoggs Hollow Hill, 3885 Yonge Street, was closed for many years, but re-opened in 2004 after many battles between developers, the city and groups that wanted to preserve the historical landmark.

The station's headquarters were relocated from their longtime home at 211 Yonge Street to CTV's 250 Richmond Street West ( near 299 Queen Street West, where MuchMusic and other Bell Media specialty television stations are based ) in February 2011 after CTVgm took control of the station.

A secondary entrance is located at what was the intersection of Yonge and Albert streets ( street long since removed after opening of the Eaton Centre )-just south of Shuter street.

Originally an extension of the Yonge streetcar line to Glen Echo, it was extended to Lake Simcoe after the purchase of a pre-existing rail line from the Hydro Electric Commission of Ontario in 1927.

The building was destroyed by fire after Evangel Temple moved to the Hoggs Hollow area, near Yonge and York Mills on September 19, 1981.

The ride meets up again after turning east to Yonge Street for a stop at Gramma's Oven, a small Polish bakery just south of King Road in Oak Ridges.