Lake Shore Boulevard (commonly misspelt Lakeshore Boulevard) is a major arterial road running along most of the waterfront in the Canadian city of Toronto. Prior to 1998, two segments of Lake Shore Boulevard (from the Etobicoke–Mississauga boundary to the Humber River and from the eastern terminus of the Gardiner Expressway to Woodbine Avenue) were designated as part of Highway 2.
Lake Shore Boulevard begins in the west at Etobicoke Creek. It is a direct continuation of Lakeshore Road in Mississauga, which continues west to Hamilton. From here it travels close to, though not always within sight of, Lake Ontario eastward through the city to Ashbridges Bay, where it curves north and becomes Woodbine Avenue. The former route of Highway 2 then follows Kingston Road east.
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Famous quotes containing the words lake, shore and/or boulevard:
“What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone! None of your half-mile swamps, none of your mile-wide woods merely, as on the skirts of our towns, without hotels, only a dark mountain or a lake for guide-board and station, over ground much of it impassable in summer!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It’s so lonely here. Like we were the only two people left in the whole world. Maybe we are. Maybe when we get back to shore everybody else will have disappeared. I’d like that, wouldn’t you?”
—Michael Wilson (1914–1978)
“Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting
In diluted gold bars across the boulevard brag
Of proud, seamed faces with mercy and murder hinting
here, there, interrupting, all deep and debonair,
The pink paint on the innocence of fear;
Walk in a gingerly manner up the hall.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)