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Sheppard & Canyon

Sheppard Ave W & Canyon Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Lansing-Westgate · Ward 6, York Centre

In Lansing-Westgate, Sheppard & Canyon is a busier-than-typical intersection. It has a park at the corner. Nearby: 6 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
12,368
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jan 11, 2001
673 pedestrians · 1 cyclists
Collisions
55
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
7 with an injury · 39 property damage · #1929 of 5,508
KSI collisions
1
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 0 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #1338 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
3 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 15 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 1,550 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 1.34× the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 18 vehicles, in line with the citywide pattern. That comes with about 5.5 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 43%, from 35 in 2016–2020 to 20 in 2021–2025. Just one of those 55 collisions left someone killed or seriously injured.

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Sheppard & Canyon

Getting here

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and what's within a 1.5 km walk

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
847160 nearest 72 m
Express
984
Blue Night
384307
Nearest stops
9 surface stops within 300 m — Sheppard Ave West at Bathurst St East Side; Sheppard Ave West at Bathurst St
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Bathurst St / Sheppard Ave W 107 m · 15 docks · 1 station, 15 docks within 1 km

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

Within walking distance 1.5 km

Schools (11)
  • Bnei Akiva School - Ulpanat OrotPrivate · 298 m
  • Montessori Jewish Day SchoolPrivate · 752 m
  • Prosserman Jewish Community Centre & Torah High - Prosserman JCC CampusPrivate · 877 m
  • St Robert Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 883 m
  • The Prestige SchoolPrivate · 936 m
  • Kesser YosefPrivate · 1 km
  • and 5 more
Community centres
Parks (14)
  • McAllister Park416 m
  • Hinder Area487 m
  • Burnett Park576 m
  • Earl Bales Park580 m
  • Ellison Park871 m
  • Addington Greenbelt887 m
  • and 8 more
Places of interest
  • Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education CentreMuseum · 1 km

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

There are 6 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 4 grocery and convenience stores, and 23 eating places within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Chinese Flavors, 41 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in February 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés6 within 300 m · 23 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience4 within 300 m · 7 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Chinese Flavors · 554 Sheppard Ave W41 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 1 infraction
Irina's Deli Market · 562 Sheppard Ave Wgrocery59 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
Summer House · 568 Sheppard Ave W73 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 2 infractions
Petro Canada · 4384 Bathurst Stgrocery172 mPassed, Jun 2025
Wimpy's Diner · 590 Sheppard Ave W181 mPassed, Jan 2025 · 1 infraction
Wimpy's Diner · 590 Sheppard Ave W181 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 2 infractions
Metro · 600 Sheppard Ave Wgrocery220 mPassed, Mar 2025 · 1 infraction
Metro · 600 Sheppard Ave Wgrocery221 mPassed, Sep 2026 · 2 infractions

Every establishment Toronto Public Health inspects under DineSafe, screened by name to leave out kitchens inside schools, care homes and offices. A conditional pass means infractions had to be fixed by a follow-up visit, not that the premises is closed.

Washrooms & water

The nearest public washroom is Earl Bales Community Centre Washroom, 271 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 270 m away at Earl Bales Park.

  • Earl Bales Community Centre Washroom · 4169 Bathurst St
    View centre hours
    271 m
  • Earl Bales Park Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre Washroom · 4169 Bathurst St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    383 m
  • Hinder Area Washroom · 44 Don River Blvd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    505 m
Drinking water
Earl Bales Park drinking fountain · 270 m; Earl Bales Park bottle filling station · 511 m

Park washrooms, washrooms in City buildings and automated street toilets, with hours and status as the City publishes them (park washrooms are seasonal). Malls, shops and TTC stations are not included.

Child care

Four licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 491 spaces; two accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Fantasia Child Care Center (2724826 Ontario Inc) (479 m, 79 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten).

Within 1 km4 centres · 491 spaces
Fee subsidy2 of 4
  • Fantasia Child Care Center (2724826 Ontario Inc) · 678 Sheppard Ave W
    79 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten · $10-a-day
    479 m
  • Montessori Jewish Day School of Toronto · 55 Yeomans Rd
    108 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten · $10-a-day
    793 m
  • Prosserman JCC - Daycare and Preschool · 4588 Bathurst St
    218 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    877 m
  • St. Robert School Age YMCA · 70 Bainbridge Ave
    86 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    883 m

Licensed centres only; spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 143 (1.9 km), the nearest police station 32 Division (2.5 km) and the nearest ambulance station 900 m away.

FireFire Station 143 · 1.9 km1009 Sheppard Ave W
Police32 Division · 2.5 km30 Ellerslie Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 54 · 900 m4135 Bathurst St

Nearest station by straight line — not a response time, and not necessarily the station that would answer a call.

Apartment buildings nearby

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

22 registered apartment buildings with 2,709 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, three of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 569 Sheppard Ave W (44 m, 144 units, 13 storeys, built 1961), which scored 97 out of 100 at its June 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 55 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 3 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings22 · 2,709 units · 3 social housing
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202655 across the 22
Open fire-code violations3
Tallest21 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
569 Sheppard Ave W · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc.14413196197 · Jun 2025244 m
1 Canyon Ave · Cando Apartments Ltd.20218196092 · Sep 2025392 m
555 Sheppard Ave W · Realstar11212196694 · Jun 20254111 m
4383 Bathurst St · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc.14213196088 · Aug 20240139 m
4415 Bathurst St · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc16714196294 · Oct 20255144 m
15 Canyon Ave · Homestead Land Holdings Limited11721196295 · Jul 20260174 m
25 Canyon Ave · Homestead Land Holdings Limited11721196298 · Aug 20261178 m
4350 Bathurst St · Alexis Court Apartments356196998 · Sep 20241215 m

The City's RentSafeTO register — rental apartment buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units — with the score from each building's latest City evaluation (out of 100; poor scores trigger a full audit). LTB orders are final Landlord and Tenant Board orders naming the address (Jan 2026 – Jun 2026); fire-code violations are open items in Toronto Fire Services' inspection data. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport. Condominiums and houses are not registered.

Parking

Every mapped lot within 2 km, Green P with peak occupancy, City EV charging and bike parking

All parking lots278 lots · ≈26,060 spaces · 78.2 ha
Within 500 m39 lots · ≈2,590 spaces
Green P (public)1 car park · about 30 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parking4 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
68 Sheppard Ave W · Surface1.9 km3063% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 31 m away, ≈39 spaces; 34 m away, ≈60 spaces; 65 m away, ≈21 spaces; 74 m away, ≈54 spaces; 88 m away, ≈45 spaces; 97 m away, ≈27 spaces.

Lot count and area from the City's topographic mapping of parking-lot footprints (every visible surface lot, public or private); spaces are estimated at one per 30 m² of lot. Lots not run by Green P are private, commercial or institutional and may be for customers or residents only. Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; rates are not shown because that list is stale — check Green P). EV chargers are City-operated only; on-street and underground parking are not included.

Traffic volume

The City's latest turning-movement count — 8-hour, Jan 11, 2001

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The west leg carries the load — 6,131 eastbound vehicles, or 50% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 782. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,086 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 2,132 from 4:45 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.3% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 26 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2001, not today's volume. It was an 8-hour count, which is not directly comparable with the 14-hour counts the City has used since September 2023.

From the north782southbound · 0 bikes · 0.9% heavy
From the west6,131eastbound · 0 bikes · 3.9% heavy
Total vehicles12,368673 pedestrians · 1 cyclists · 3.3% heavy
From the east5,455westbound · 1 bikes · 2.8% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour2,086 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour2,132 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jan 11, 2001

Approach figures are vehicles entering the intersection from that leg over the whole count. A count is one day's traffic, not an annual average; the City recounts on an ad-hoc schedule.

How fast traffic moves here

Midblock speed counts on the intersection's streets, the nearest school-zone speed sign, and traffic calming

The City's most recent midblock count on Sheppard Ave W between Canyon Ave and Bathurst St (62 m away, Sep 2014) recorded volume only — about 11,525 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Sheppard Ave W · Canyon Ave – Bathurst St · 62 mSep 2014 · 7 days11,525

Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; the 85th-percentile speed is the figure engineers use — 85% of drivers were at or below it. Counts are ad hoc, so some are years old. A midblock reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data.

All police-reported collisions

Every collision reported to Toronto Police within 65 m, any severity, 2016–2025

2018 was the peak year (14 collisions), and 2025 closed with 5. 13% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 10 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 18% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 4% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). The most recent report on file is from Sep 17, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions55#1929 of 5,508
With an injury7#2327 of 4,660
Property damage only39
Fail to remain10
Involving a pedestrian2#2000 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified9
All since 201468latest Sep 17, 2025

Source: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data — every collision reported to police since 2014, within 65 m of this node. Records through Jun 30, 2026.

Killed or seriously injured

Collisions in which someone died or was seriously injured, within 65 m, 2016–2025 — the basis of the danger rankings

One collision in 2016–2025 left someone seriously injured; it was not fatal. It involved vehicle occupants only — no pedestrian or cyclist. It happened in daylight or lit conditions. The most recent was on Aug 28, 2017.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions1#1338 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness0
All KSI since 20061latest Aug 28, 2017

KSI = killed or seriously injured. A collision is counted if its recorded location is within 65 m of this intersection's centreline node, whether the police coded it as intersection-related or mid-block. Records can lag a year or more, so the current year is excluded from rankings.

Thefts reported at this corner

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

Toronto Police place 24 thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 4.3× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 2.6 a year. 54% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle2470street/outdoor (13), apartment parking (11)
Bicycle theft200street/outdoor (1), apartment parking (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Feb 18, 2025. 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 Lansing-Westgate.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Sheppard & Canyon a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025 (#1338 of 1,505), out of 55 reported collisions of any severity. 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 Sheppard & Canyon?

A busier-than-typical intersection. Its latest count is from Jan 11, 2001, 1.34× the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Sheppard & Canyon?

The nearest Green P car park is 68 Sheppard Ave W (1.9 km away, 30 spaces, 63% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 278 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 26,060 spaces — 39 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Sheppard & Canyon by transit?

Bus routes 84, 7, 160, 984 within 1 km (nearest stop: Sheppard Ave West at Bathurst St East Side, 72 m).

What restaurants are near Sheppard & Canyon?

6 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 23 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Chinese Flavors (41 m), Summer House (73 m), Wimpy's Diner (181 m) and Wimpy's Diner (181 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Sheppard & Canyon?

The nearest is Earl Bales Community Centre Washroom, 4169 Bathurst St, 271 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Earl Bales Park Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre Washroom (383 m); Hinder Area Washroom (505 m). These are the City's own washrooms — in parks, civic buildings and automated street toilets — not those in malls, coffee shops or TTC stations.

Is there child care near Sheppard & Canyon?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 491 spaces in total; 2 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Fantasia Child Care Center (2724826 Ontario Inc) (479 m, 79 spaces), Montessori Jewish Day School of Toronto (793 m, 108 spaces) and Prosserman JCC - Daycare and Preschool (877 m, 218 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Sheppard & Canyon?

22 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,709 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 569 Sheppard Ave W (44 m, 144 units, RentSafeTO score 97), 1 Canyon Ave (92 m, 202 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 555 Sheppard Ave W (111 m, 112 units, RentSafeTO score 94) and 4383 Bathurst St (139 m, 142 units, RentSafeTO score 88). The average RentSafeTO score across the 22 is 91 out of 100. Condos and houses are not on the City's register. Each building's full record — score history, LTB orders, fire-code inspections, permits — is on LandlordReport.

How many thefts are reported at Sheppard & Canyon?

Toronto Police place 24 thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Police offset every reported occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing it, so the count covers the streets, driveways and parking around this corner rather than the corner itself. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Lansing-Westgate page.

What neighbourhood is Sheppard & Canyon in?

Sheppard & Canyon is in Lansing-Westgate (City of Toronto neighbourhood 038). It is in Ward 6, York Centre, represented by Councillor James Pasternak.

Sources

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