History
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. The former site is now an empty lot pending developed of a commercial building.
In the former Scarborough municipality, Sheppard was once called the Lansing Sideroad.
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