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Canlish & Exford

Canlish Rd & Exford Dr · Toronto, Ontario · Dorset Park · Ward 21, Scarborough Centre

Canlish & Exford, in Dorset Park, is a quiet local crossing. Nearby are 5 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic
1,916
vehicles · 14-hour count, Nov 30, 2023
140 pedestrians · 14 cyclists
Collisions
10
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
0
TTC stops within 100 m
5 routes within 1 km
Within a walk
21/100
city median 48
24 places to eat within 1 km · grocery 871 m

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Canlish & Exford

Traffic and safety

The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets

Traffic volume14-hour count · Nov 30, 2023

Traffic is heaviest from the west: 618 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 32% of the total, against 363 from the north. Evening rush dominates here: 256 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:45 p.m., against 157 in the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.0% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 3 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north363southbound · 3 bikes · 4.7% heavy
From the west618eastbound · 5 bikes · 2.3% heavy
Total vehicles1,916140 pedestrians · 14 cyclists · 3.0% heavy
From the east412westbound · 2 bikes · 2.7% heavy
From the south523northbound · 4 bikes · 2.9% heavy

Peak hours: 157 vehicles in the hour from 8:30 a.m. and 256 from 4:45 p.m. (approach figures are vehicles entering from that leg over the whole count — one day's traffic, not an annual average).

Collisions 2016–2025 · within 65 m

The peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 3 collisions. 3 collisions (30%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 10% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 7, 2026.

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.

By year

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2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions105.2 a year per 10,000 daily vehicles
With an injury3
Property damage only6
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Severity not classified1
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20060

A collision counts when its recorded location is within 65 m of the centreline node, intersection-related or not. KSI = killed or seriously injured, the basis of the danger rankings; records can lag a year or more, so the current year is outside the window. How collisions are counted.

How fast traffic moves here

On Canlish Rd between Exford Dr and Ellendale Dr, 200 m from the corner, a 3-day count in November 2023 put the average speed at 41 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 49 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 55 km/h or more. That segment carries about 900 vehicles a day. Exford Dr between Canlish Rd and Portsdown Rd measured slower: 34 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 40 km/h (Nov 2023).

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Exford Dr · Canlish Rd – Portsdown Rd · 48 mNov 2023 · 3 days94334 km/h40 km/h44 km/h
Canlish Rd · Exford Dr – Ellendale Dr · 200 mNov 2023 · 3 days93341 km/h49 km/h55 km/h

Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; 85% of drivers were at or below the 85th-percentile speed. A reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data. How speeds are read.

Getting there

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park

Transit and cycling

TTC bus
17 43 54 nearest 348 m · 4 min
Blue Night
343 354
Nearest stops
no surface stop within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Dulverton Rd / Birchmount Rd 941 m · 11 min · 11 docks · 1 station, 11 docks within 1 km

Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.

Parking within 2 km

Green P
2 car parks · about 158 spaces
EV charging
no City charger within 2 km
Bike parking
none recorded nearby
Other lots
3 mapped lots within 500 m, 267 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
Lawrence East Lot - Near 2450 Lawrence Ave East · Surface1.7 km90 *—
Ellesmere Lot - Near 1050 Ellesmere Road - closed for construction until November 2019 · Surface2 km68 *—

Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; check Green P for rates). EV chargers are City-operated only. On-street and underground parking are not included.

Within a walk

What the City's own records put within a walk of this corner — distances are the walk along real streets and paths. Shops, banks, gyms and clinics are in no City dataset, so they are not here.

Food, shops and services

No grocery store is within 300 m of the corner. The closest is Himalayan Grocers, 871 m away. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 24 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Kairali, 682 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Pharmakeio Pharmacy, 676 m away; 2 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Kairali · 1210 Kennedy Rd682 m · 8 min
  • Super Bazaar · 1505 Birchmount Rd732 m · 9 min
  • Karaikudi Chettinad Restaurant · 1225 Kennedy Rd758 m · 9 min
  • Lazeez Shawarma · 1225 Kennedy Rd Unit-B1758 m · 9 min
  • Bisi Bisi · 1190 Kennedy Rd764 m · 9 min
0 within 300 m · 24 within 1 km
Grocery
Himalayan Grocers 871 m · 10 min
Food shops
Atiya's Fresh Farm Inc 758 m · 9 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
Pharmacy
Pharmakeio Pharmacy 676 m · 8 min · 2 within 1 km
Washrooms
  • McGregor Park Community Centre Washroom · hours not listed926 m · 11 min

Food premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023, screened by name and location to leave out the kitchens inside care homes, child care, schools and offices, and carts and stalls; a shop without a recent inspection does not appear. Pharmacies, hospital sites and care homes from the Ontario Ministry of Health's register — a hospital site may be a rehabilitation or specialty hospital without an emergency department; in an emergency call 911. How places are classed.

Parks, schools and places

Parks
Community centres
Schools
  • Bond Academy SchoolPrivate · 679 m · 8 min
  • Dorset Park Public SchoolEnglish Public · 837 m · 10 min
  • St Lawrence Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.1 km · 13 min
  • Winston Churchill Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 1.1 km · 13 min
Library
  • Toronto Public Library McGregor Park branch872 m · 10 min

Parks, schools, libraries and places of interest within 1.5 km; child care, washrooms and care homes within 1 km; a hospital site within 2 km. Distances are the walk along real streets and paths. How these are joined.

Not within a walk: licensed child care or a care or retirement home.

21of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food8/30

    1 grocery store within 1 km · 24 within 1 km

  • Transit4/28

    5 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go5/14

    library 872 m away

  • Parks and recreation3/10

    nearest park 0.8 km · nearest centre 0.9 km

  • Schools and child care1/8

    nearest school 0.7 km

  • Crossing on foot0/10

    no crossing features on file

Our own measure, not a licensed walkability rating: every point comes from a City dataset listed under Sources, and the six parts add up to the score. How the score is built · the full ranking.

Apartment buildings nearby

RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score

Within a kilometre there are seven RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 363 rental units. The nearest is 1475 Birchmount Rd (472 m, 28 units, 5 storeys, built 1967), which scored 82 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 82, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
1475 Birchmount Rd · Signet Group Inc.285196782 · Aug 2026472 m · 6 min
1477 Birchmount Rd213196086 · Sep 2025574 m · 7 min
1525 Birchmount Rd · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc.524195689 · Sep 2025786 m · 9 min
1535 Birchmount Rd · North 44 Property Management Inc374196083 · Jul 2026923 m · 11 min
2185 Lawrence Ave E · Shelborne Property Management14212196890 · Dec 2025935 m · 11 min
1545 Birchmount Rd · North 44 Property Management Inc374196076 · Jul 20261 km · 11 min

7 registered buildings · 363 units · tallest 12 storeys. The score is the City's RentSafeTO evaluation out of 100; buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units are registered, condominiums and houses are not. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport.

Thefts reported at this corner

Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025

One theft from a vehicle and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025.

2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle100other (1)
Bicycle theft000—

Police offset every occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing, so these are thefts on the streets and premises around this node, not necessarily at the corner itself. Other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see Dorset Park.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Canlish & Exford a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 10 lesser collisions. High counts usually track high traffic volume rather than a design flaw; volume is shown alongside so the numbers can be read in context.

How busy is Canlish & Exford?

A quiet local crossing. Its latest count is from Nov 30, 2023, 12% of the median for a counted intersection.

Is Canlish & Exford a walkable intersection?

Canlish & Exford scores 21 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure; the city median is 48. It counts what the City's own records put within a walk — food premises, transit, libraries, parks, schools, licensed child care — not shops, banks or clinics, which no City dataset lists. Within a walk: library 872 m away; nearest park 0.8 km · nearest centre 0.9 km; 1 grocery store within 1 km · 24 within 1 km.

How fast do cars go at Canlish & Exford?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Canlish Rd between Exford Dr and Ellendale Dr (November 2023), found an average of 41 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 49 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Canlish & Exford?

The nearest Green P car park is Lawrence East Lot - Near 2450 Lawrence Ave East (1.7 km away, 90 spaces). The City's mapping shows 267 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 45,800 spaces — 3 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Canlish & Exford by transit?

Bus routes 17, 43, 54 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Canlish & Exford?

None within 300 m, and 24 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Kairali (682 m), Super Bazaar (732 m), Karaikudi Chettinad Restaurant (758 m), Lazeez Shawarma (758 m) and Bisi Bisi (764 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Canlish & Exford?

The nearest is McGregor Park Community Centre Washroom, 2231 Lawrence Ave E, 926 m away.

What apartment buildings are near Canlish & Exford?

Seven RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 363 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1475 Birchmount Rd (472 m, 28 units, RentSafeTO score 82), 1477 Birchmount Rd (574 m, 21 units, RentSafeTO score 86), 1525 Birchmount Rd (786 m, 52 units, RentSafeTO score 89) and 1535 Birchmount Rd (923 m, 37 units, RentSafeTO score 83). The average RentSafeTO score across the 7 is 82 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at Canlish & Exford?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Dorset Park page.

What neighbourhood is Canlish & Exford in?

Canlish & Exford is in Dorset Park (City of Toronto neighbourhood 126). It is in Ward 21, Scarborough Centre, represented by Councillor Michael Thompson.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined