List of municipal roads in Markham, Ontario
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While most major roads in Markham, Ontario
Markham, Ontario
Markham is a town in the Regional Municipality of York, located within the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada. The population was 261,573 at the 2006 Canadian census...

 are funded by the York Region
Regional Municipality of York, Ontario
The Regional Municipality of York, also called York Region, is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada, between Lake Simcoe and Toronto. It replaced the former York County in 1971, and is part of the Greater Toronto Area and the inner ring of the Golden Horseshoe...

al government, some of the main roads are funded by the Markham government. These roads are named as municipal roads. These municipal roads are served for motorists to travel within the town. The Markham government also funded all of the local, light-duty roads. This article lists all the major municipal roads funded by Markham.

North-South routes

Road name Northern End Southern End Length (km
Kilometre
The kilometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres and is therefore exactly equal to the distance travelled by light in free space in of a second...

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Additional notes
Aileen Road Green Lane John Street
John Street (Markham)
John Street is an east-west arterial road in the Town of Markham, Ontario. It is one of the oldest roads in the Township of Markham and forms the backbone of the 200 year old community of Thornhill....

Allstate Parkway Toronto/Buttonville Airport Highway 7 1.1
Birchmount Road Highway 7 Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It stretches across the western Greater Toronto Area from Milborough Townline in Halton Region east to the Scarborough-Pickering limit. It runs for within...

2.4 Connects with City of Toronto; future principle artery of Downtown Markham.
Brimley Road
Brimley Road
Brimley Road is a north-south street in Scarborough and York Region, Ontario, Canada. The road carries 32000 vehicles daily as of May 2007 and is classified as a major arterial road by the city of Toronto....

14th Avenue Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It stretches across the western Greater Toronto Area from Milborough Townline in Halton Region east to the Scarborough-Pickering limit. It runs for within...

2.1 Connects with City of Toronto.
Cornell Centre Boulevard 16th Avenue Highway 7
Highway 7 (Ontario)
King's Highway 7, commonly referred to as Highway 7 and historically as the Northern Highway, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario...

Eastern border of the community of Cornell
Cornell, Ontario
Cornell is a new community being developed in northeast Markham, Ontario and bounded by Highway 407, 16th Avenue, Ninth Line, and the Don Cousens Parkway.-History:...

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Alternative route to relieve traffic congestion on Main Street Markham and Ninth Line;
Former alignment of York Regional Road 48
York Regional Road 48
Donald Cousens Parkway, regionally designated as York Regional Road 48 and historically known as the Markham Bypass or Markham Bypass Extension, is a regionally maintained arterial bypass of Markham in the Canadian province of Ontario...

. Formerly named as the Old Markham By-Pass.
Henderson Avenue Toronto Ladies' Golf Course Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It stretches across the western Greater Toronto Area from Milborough Townline in Halton Region east to the Scarborough-Pickering limit. It runs for within...

2.5 Major thoroughfare in Community of Thornhill
Thornhill, Ontario
Thornhill is a community in the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada, located on the northern border of the city of Toronto. Once a municipal village, Thornhill is now a community and postal designation geographically split into two municipalities along Yonge Street, the city of...

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Laureleaf Road Bayview Avenue Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It stretches across the western Greater Toronto Area from Milborough Townline in Halton Region east to the Scarborough-Pickering limit. It runs for within...

Main Street Unionville
Main Street Unionville
Main Street Unionville is a collector route that runs through the historical suburban community of Unionville, Ontario. Like most other Main Streets, the street serves as an important road for local tourism development. All along the road, the street has structures that are virtually unchanged from...

Rosemead Close Enterprise Drive 2.75 Major tourist area of the Town of Markham.
Formerly the alignment of present-day York Regional Road 3.
Middlefield Road 14th Avenue Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It stretches across the western Greater Toronto Area from Milborough Townline in Halton Region east to the Scarborough-Pickering limit. It runs for within...

Connects with City of Toronto; eastern border of the Community of Milliken
Milliken, Ontario
Milliken or Milliken Mills is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto and Markham, Ontario. It is located in the North East section of Scarborough and South East section of Markham...

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Mingay Avenue Major MacKenzie Drive 16th Avenue Main route in the Community of Wismer Common.
Old Kennedy Road Denison Street
Denison Street
Denison Street is an urban thoroughfare in Markham, Ontario, linking the Esna Industrial Park in the west to residential communities, such as Milliken and Box Grove, to the east. The road serves as an alternative to 14th Avenue in Markham and Steeles Avenue. The road began its construction at...

Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It stretches across the western Greater Toronto Area from Milborough Townline in Halton Region east to the Scarborough-Pickering limit. It runs for within...

Formerly the alignment of present-day York Regional Road 3.
Rodick Road Woodbine Avenue Riviera Drive 6.8 Western border of Downtown Markham
Roy Rainey Avenue Major MacKenzie Drive 16th Avenue
Stonebridge Drive Major MacKenzie Drive 16th Avenue
The Bridle Walk Major MacKenzie Drive 16th Avenue Passes through the heart of the community of Berczy Village
Berczy Village, Ontario
Berczy Village is a residential community located in Markham, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded to the north by Major Mackenzie Drive, to the east by McCowan Road, to the south by 16th Avenue, and to the west by Kennedy Road. This area is part of Unionville, Ontario. The community is named after the...

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Town Centre Boulevard Apple Creek Boulevard Highway 7 Many important structures of the town locate on this road.
Victoria Park Avenue
Victoria Park Avenue
Victoria Park Avenue is a major north-south route in eastern Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It marks the border between the Old City of Toronto and Scarborough.-History:Victoria Park Avenue was originally a pioneer road for settlement of Scarborough...

Denison Street
Denison Street
Denison Street is an urban thoroughfare in Markham, Ontario, linking the Esna Industrial Park in the west to residential communities, such as Milliken and Box Grove, to the east. The road serves as an alternative to 14th Avenue in Markham and Steeles Avenue. The road began its construction at...

Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It stretches across the western Greater Toronto Area from Milborough Townline in Halton Region east to the Scarborough-Pickering limit. It runs for within...

Connects with City of Toronto.
Village Parkway 16th Avenue Highway 7 Western border of Community of Unionville
Unionville, Ontario
Unionville is a suburban village in Markham, Ontario, Canada. It is located 33 km northeast of downtown Toronto and 4 km east of southern Richmond Hill. Unionville is located between Woodbine Avenue as the western limit, alongside the Rouge River leading to McCowan Road as the eastern...

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Future connection to Birchmount Road.
Willowbrook Road Bayview Avenue Green Lane

East-West routes

Road name Eastern end Western end Length (km
Kilometre
The kilometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres and is therefore exactly equal to the distance travelled by light in free space in of a second...

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Additional information
14th Avenue Alden Road Highway 404 Although most of 14th Avenue is marked as Regional Road 71, the section west of Warden is municipal-funded.
19th Avenue York-Durham Line Woodbine Avenue Although parts of 19th Avenue is marked as Regional Road 29, the section east of Woodbine is municipal-funded; 19th Avenue is the northernmost municipal road in Markham.
Alden Road Warden Avenue Esna Park Drive Bridges the two separate sections of York Regional Road 71
Apple Creek Boulevard Warden Avenue Woodbine Avenue Northern border of Downtown Markham.
Bullock Drive Main Street Markham North Highway 7
Bur Oak Avenue Highway 7 Kennedy Road 11.0 Major thoroughfare in Berczy Village
Berczy Village, Ontario
Berczy Village is a residential community located in Markham, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded to the north by Major Mackenzie Drive, to the east by McCowan Road, to the south by 16th Avenue, and to the west by Kennedy Road. This area is part of Unionville, Ontario. The community is named after the...

, Wismer Common, Greensborough, and Cornell
Cornell, Ontario
Cornell is a new community being developed in northeast Markham, Ontario and bounded by Highway 407, 16th Avenue, Ninth Line, and the Don Cousens Parkway.-History:...

Carlton Road McCowan Road Warden Avenue Major thoroughfare in Unionville
Unionville, Ontario
Unionville is a suburban village in Markham, Ontario, Canada. It is located 33 km northeast of downtown Toronto and 4 km east of southern Richmond Hill. Unionville is located between Woodbine Avenue as the western limit, alongside the Rouge River leading to McCowan Road as the eastern...

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Castlemore Avenue Ninth Line Kennedy Road
Clark Avenue Sprucewood Drive Yonge Street Connects with Vaughan
Vaughan, Ontario
Vaughan is a city in York Region north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Vaughan is the fastest growing municipality in Canada achieving a population growth rate of 80.2% between 1996–2006, according to Statistics Canada having nearly doubled in population since 1991. Vaughan is located in Southern...

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Denison Street
Denison Street
Denison Street is an urban thoroughfare in Markham, Ontario, linking the Esna Industrial Park in the west to residential communities, such as Milliken and Box Grove, to the east. The road serves as an alternative to 14th Avenue in Markham and Steeles Avenue. The road began its construction at...

Bethany Street Steelcase Road West 9.9 Serve as an alternative to the traffic congested Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It stretches across the western Greater Toronto Area from Milborough Townline in Halton Region east to the Scarborough-Pickering limit. It runs for within...

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Major thoroughfare for Milliken
Milliken, Ontario
Milliken or Milliken Mills is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto and Markham, Ontario. It is located in the North East section of Scarborough and South East section of Markham...

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Elgin Mills Road East York-Durham Line Woodbine Avenue Although most of Elgin Mills Road is marked as Regional Road 49, the section east of Woodbine is municipal-funded.
Elson Street Denison Street
Denison Street
Denison Street is an urban thoroughfare in Markham, Ontario, linking the Esna Industrial Park in the west to residential communities, such as Milliken and Box Grove, to the east. The road serves as an alternative to 14th Avenue in Markham and Steeles Avenue. The road began its construction at...

York Regional Road 67 3.2 Named for former Ward 6 town councillor Elson Miles
Enterprise Drive Main Street Unionville
Main Street Unionville
Main Street Unionville is a collector route that runs through the historical suburban community of Unionville, Ontario. Like most other Main Streets, the street serves as an important road for local tourism development. All along the road, the street has structures that are virtually unchanged from...

Warden Avenue 1.5 Major thoroughfare of Downtown Markham, connects with Yorktech Drive, Unionville Gate, and South Unionville Avenue as an alternative to York Regional Road 7.
Esna Park Drive Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It stretches across the western Greater Toronto Area from Milborough Townline in Halton Region east to the Scarborough-Pickering limit. It runs for within...

Woodbine Avenue Bridges the two separate sections of York Regional Road 71; connects with Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

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Fred Varley Drive Main Street Unionville
Main Street Unionville
Main Street Unionville is a collector route that runs through the historical suburban community of Unionville, Ontario. Like most other Main Streets, the street serves as an important road for local tourism development. All along the road, the street has structures that are virtually unchanged from...

Carlton Road
Green Lane Leslie Street Bayview Avenue Northern border of German Mills
German Mills, Ontario
German Mills is a community within the town of Markham in Ontario, Canada. Located in the Thornhill area, German Mills was named for the early German settlers in the area.- History :...

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John Street Woodbine Avenue Yonge Street 6.125 Bridges the two separate sections of York Regional Road 71; major thoroughfare in German Mills
German Mills, Ontario
German Mills is a community within the town of Markham in Ontario, Canada. Located in the Thornhill area, German Mills was named for the early German settlers in the area.- History :...

 and Thornhill
Thornhill, Ontario
Thornhill is a community in the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada, located on the northern border of the city of Toronto. Once a municipal village, Thornhill is now a community and postal designation geographically split into two municipalities along Yonge Street, the city of...

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Highglen Avenue Markham Road Kennedy Road
Raymerville Drive McCowan Road McCowan Road 4.5 An U-shape major thoroughfare forming the backbone of the community Raymerville - Markville East.
Royal Orchard Boulevard Bayview Avenue Yonge Street Major thoroughfare of Langstaff
Langstaff, Ontario
Langstaff is a residential community straddling Richmond Hill and Markham, in Ontario, Canada. Located near Langstaff Road and Yonge Street, the homes in the area date to the 1960s and 1970s...

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South Unionville Avenue McCowan Road Kennedy Road Future major thoroughfare of Downtown Markham; connects with Yorktech Drive, Enterprise Drive, and Unionville Gate to form an alternative route to York Regional Road 7.
Yorktech Drive Warden Avenue Woodbine Avenue Future major thoroughfare of Downtown Markham, and will connect to Enterprise Drive, Unionville Gate, and South Unionville Avenue to form an alternative route to York Regional Road 7.


*Italics indicate future termini.

See also

  • List of roads in Toronto, Ontario
  • List of regional roads in York Region, Ontario
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