There's fairly common conversation in our office about the dividing line of Toronto's east and west side, but also of where the east/west side gives way to the east/west end. You'd think we'd all agree on such things by now, but there's still plenty of debate as to these unwritten boundary lines.
The results from an impromptu poll of our Twitter followers highlights both the confusion and passion that underwrites these discussions. Someone will tell you that "everyone knows Yonge St. acts as the dividing line" between east and west, while someone else will say that the boundary is the Don Valley with equal conviction.
For my part, I've always adopted the latter argument with the proviso that there's a centre area in Toronto that's neither the east nor the west side. Call it "downtown" or "central Toronto" (no one seems to use this expression, though), but Bay St. doesn't feel like the west side any more than Church St. seems like the east.
Making a steadfast distinction between east and west in Toronto is also complicated by the fact that there isn't widespread agreement on the boundaries between downtown, midtown, and uptown. In some sense, the right answer is the one that a person can argue most convincingly for in any given debate about the matter.
Perhaps that's the way it should be. Argue away in the comments and take a look at what our Twitter followers had to say below.
TWITTER POLL: What do you think the dividing line is between the east and west side in Toronto? #boundariesTO
— blogTO (@blogTO) August 14, 2015
@blogTO. It's Yonge St. Fin.
— Cbab (@Cbab_) August 14, 2015
@blogTO it's the Don Valley. How is this a question?
— Duane Rollins (@24thminute) August 14, 2015
@blogTO Yonge. Is this really a question?
— Matthew Slutsky (@iSlutsky) August 14, 2015
@blogTO
West until University
No Man's Land until Don Valley
East after the Don
Here be Dragons east of Victoria Park / West of High Park
— Robonto (@Robonto) August 14, 2015
@blogTO Map-wise, Yonge. But realistically I'd say Broadview or the DVP.
— Julie Chaston (@JulieChaston) August 14, 2015
@blogTO Both Yonge St. and the Don River, between which lies an inconvenient strip of land that renders the word "line" meaningless.
— Stephanie Fysh (@stephaniefysh) August 14, 2015
@blogTO "East side" extends from Don River to Warden. "West Side" from Spadina to the Humber River. Spadina to Don River is "central"
— Toronto Planning Law (@pothen) August 14, 2015
@pothen @blogTO think I'd make the western line at Bathurst rather than Spadina. Bathurst usually "downtown" boundary in planning studies.
— Zach Henderson (@ZachMHenderson) August 14, 2015
@blogTO Yonge or the DVP, depending on my mood.
— Ang (@_ang) August 14, 2015
@blogTO Bay St.
— Jonah Letovsky (@jonahletovsky) August 14, 2015
@blogTO I used to think Yonge St, but now I'd say Parliament. #boundariesTO
— Siobhán Egan (@SiobhanTO) August 14, 2015
@blogTO THERE'S SOMETHING EAST OF THE DVP?!?!? 😳. Ha ha ha...😆
— DG (@DeeGee1111) August 15, 2015
@blogTO spadina
— Ian Mationg (@OldSchoolImpact) August 14, 2015
@blogTO Bathurst is west, DVP is east. I'd call the area in between 'central Toronto'.
— Daniel Mayer (@DanielMayer13) August 14, 2015
@blogTO Yonge if it need to be a single line, but I think of anything between Bathurst and the Don River as being central, not east or west.
— Peter Sinclair (@ptrsincl) August 14, 2015
@blogTO ? Yonge St...it's always been Yonge St...how can it be anything other than Yonge St????
— AGH (@thatguyalex) August 14, 2015
@blogTO toronto shd adopt the "central" concept. Cabbagetown is east central, leslieville is the eastend. I'd say east of the don is east
— phillip vonesh (@phillivonesh) August 14, 2015
@blogTO Yonge is in the middles of the sides west end is Ossington, East end is Broadview.
— William H. (@CoolBreeze12321) August 14, 2015
@blogTO east end is everything b4 Scarborough, west end everything b4 Etobicoke. Doesn't count midtown or North York. Do ppl use 'side'?
— Catherine (@lumbercath) August 14, 2015
by Derek Flack via blogTO
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