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Upper Canada Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe was fond of naming places after friends and colleagues. And so, his friend, Sir Robert Yonge, who never visited the Canadas, had his name immortalized in what is the longest street in the world. Yonge was Minister of War in the Imperial Cabinet. The street was named in 1794. He was an authority on Roman roads, so that was probably the reason that Simcoe chose Yonge’s name. Source – Lorna Rogers with the Society for the Preservation of Historic Thornhill, researched from Thornhill: An Ontario Village by Doris Fitzgerald.
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