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Victoria Park & Gower

Victoria Park Ave & Gower St · Toronto, Ontario · Clairlea-Birchmount · Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest

Victoria Park & Gower, in Clairlea-Birchmount, is an intersection of typical volume. Nearby is Victoria Park Station (Line 2) 1.0 km away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
8,722
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 23, 1991
117 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
18
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
5 with an injury · 13 property damage · #3581 of 5,508 · +1 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 1 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
1
TTC stop within 100 m
Victoria Park Station 1 km · 5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 1,090 vehicles an hour, about the citywide median. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 75 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Police have logged an average of 1.8 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Victoria Park & Gower

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Victoria Park Station (Line 2)1 km
TTC bus
2423404678 nearest 40 m
Express
924
Blue Night
324
Nearest stops
9 surface stops within 300 m — Victoria Park Ave at St Bedes Rd
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Victoria Park Ave / Dawes Rd 405 m · 19 docks · 8 stations, 141 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 (15)
  • George Webster Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 551 m
  • Regent Heights Public SchoolEnglish Public · 565 m
  • Crescent Town Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 692 m
  • Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 794 m
  • Gordon A Brown Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 1.1 km
  • Community Life Christian SchoolPrivate · 1.1 km
  • and 9 more
Parks (21)
  • Joshua Cronkwright Parkette323 m
  • Donora Park395 m
  • Regents Park455 m
  • George Webster Park632 m
  • Dentonia Park Golf Course670 m
  • Byng Park797 m
  • and 15 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Dawes Road branch317 m

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

Toronto Public Health inspects 6 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 45. The nearest is Duffy's Drive In, 284 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés6 within 300 m · 45 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 8 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Duffy's Drive In · 399 Dawes Rd284 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Duffy's Drive In · 399 Dawes Rd284 mPassed, Dec 2024 · 2 infractions
Dawes Road Centre For Early Learning · 391 Dawes Rd298 mPassed, Jul 2026
Dawes Cafe · 466 Dawes Rd299 mPassed, Dec 2024
China Work Restaurant · 468 Dawes Rd299 mPassed, Jul 2026
Dawes Cafe · 466 Dawes Rd299 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 2 infractions
Banahaw Foodmart · 458 Dawes Rdgrocery301 mPassed, May 2026
Master Pizzeria · 436 Dawes Rd324 mPassed, Jun 2026

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 George Webster Park Washroom, 616 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 338 m away at Joshua Cronkwright Parkette.

  • George Webster Park Washroom · 30 Chapman Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    616 m
  • Taylor Creek Park Washroom · 260 Dawes Rd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    811 m
  • Dentonia Park Golf Course Washroom · 781 Victoria Park Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    915 m
Drinking water
Joshua Cronkwright Parkette bottle filling station · 338 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

Six licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 544 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Dawes Road Centre For Early Learning (284 m, 80 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km6 centres · 544 spaces
Fee subsidy6 of 6
  • Dawes Road Centre For Early Learning · 391 Dawes Rd
    80 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    284 m
  • George Webster Jr YMCA · 50 Chapman Ave
    148 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    551 m
  • Eyet Early Learning Centre, Crescent Town Elementary School · 4 Massey Sq
    136 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    692 m
  • Dian Childcare Centre Inc. · 283 Pharmacy Ave
    26 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    697 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 224 (2.1 km), the nearest police station 41 Division (3.4 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.2 km away.

FireFire Station 224 · 2.1 km1313 Woodbine Ave
Police41 Division · 3.4 km2222 Eglinton Avenue East
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 46 · 2.2 km105 Cedarvale Ave

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

Within a kilometre there are 58 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 6,403 rental units, 2.5× the median for a Toronto intersection — four social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1043 Victoria Park Ave (300 m, 11 units, 3 storeys, built 1960), which scored 81 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 58 scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 213 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 73 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings58 · 6,403 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · 2 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026213 across the 58
Open fire-code violations73
Tallest29 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1043 Victoria Park Ave113196081 · Jul 20262300 m
514 Dawes Rd344195097 · Jul 20261333 m
516 Dawes Rd464195390 · Jul 20261336 m
1047 Victoria Park Ave · Bianca Properties Inc.113196284 · Aug 20260337 m
506 Dawes Rd674195896 · Oct 20250338 m
510 Dawes Rd · North 44 Property Management Inc624196084 · Sep 20255341 m
10 Gower Stsocial housing · Vincentpaul Family Homes Corporation1647199498 · Aug 20254366 m
1051 Victoria Park Ave123195478 · Aug 20260374 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 lots492 lots · ≈40,120 spaces · 120.3 ha
Within 500 m34 lots · ≈1,330 spaces
Green P (public)3 car parks · about 1,244 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parking4 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 8 bikes within 600 m · Indoor bike station, 777 Victoria Park Ave (1 km)
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
Victoria Main Lot - 777 Victoria Park Avenue · Surface1.1 km173 *
Warden South Lot - 701 Warden Ave · Surface1.3 km151 *
Warden North Lot - 705 Warden Ave · Surface1.7 km920 *

Nearest lots: 245 m away, ≈15 spaces; 266 m away, ≈10 spaces; 282 m away, ≈2 spaces; 284 m away, ≈2 spaces; 285 m away, ≈7 spaces; 292 m away, ≈23 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, Oct 23, 1991

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 4,435 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 51% of the total, against 278 from the west. Evening rush dominates here: 1,409 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:15 p.m., against 1,173 in the morning peak from 7:45 a.m. Trucks and buses were 5.3% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 35 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 1991, 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 north4,009southbound · 0 bikes · 6.1% heavy
From the west278eastbound · 0 bikes · 1.8% heavy
Total vehicles8,722117 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 5.3% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south4,435northbound · 0 bikes · 4.8% heavy
AM peak hour1,173 vehicles from 7:45 a.m.
PM peak hour1,409 vehicles from 4:15 p.m.
Count8-hour · Oct 23, 1991

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

On Victoria Park Ave between Medhurst Rd and Donora Dr, 233 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in October 2015 put the average speed at 60 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 67 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 72 km/h or more. That segment carries about 22,000 vehicles a day. Gower St between Cedarcrest Blvd and Captain Demont Lane measured slower: 31 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 40 km/h (May 2019). The reading is 11 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Victoria Park Ave · Medhurst Rd – Donora Dr · 233 mOct 2015 · 24 h22,02060 km/h67 km/h72 km/h
Gower St · Cedarcrest Blvd – Captain Demont Lane · 392 mMay 2019 · 3 days1,48431 km/h40 km/h46 km/h

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

The peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 3 collisions. 5 collisions (28%) involved an injury. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (6%). Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jan 18, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions18#3581 of 5,508
With an injury5#2833 of 4,660
Property damage only13
Fail to remain0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist1#2460 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201424latest Jan 18, 2026

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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Feb 19, 2014.

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

Four thefts from vehicles and three bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle410house driveway/garage (2), other (1)
Bicycle theft310house driveway/garage (2), other (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Dec 23, 2024. 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 Clairlea-Birchmount.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Victoria Park & Gower a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 18 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 Victoria Park & Gower?

An intersection of typical volume. Its latest count is from Oct 23, 1991, about the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Victoria Park & Gower?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Victoria Park Ave between Medhurst Rd and Donora Dr (October 2015), found an average of 60 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 67 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Victoria Park & Gower?

The nearest Green P car park is Victoria Main Lot - 777 Victoria Park Avenue (1.1 km away, 173 spaces). The City's mapping shows 492 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 40,120 spaces — 34 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Victoria Park & Gower by transit?

Victoria Park Station (Line 2) is 1.0 km away; bus routes 24, 23, 404, 67, 8, 924 within 1 km (nearest stop: Victoria Park Ave at St Bedes Rd, 40 m).

What restaurants are near Victoria Park & Gower?

6 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 45 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Duffy's Drive In (284 m), Duffy's Drive In (284 m), Dawes Road Centre For Early Learning (298 m), Dawes Cafe (299 m) and China Work Restaurant (299 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 Victoria Park & Gower?

The nearest is George Webster Park Washroom, 30 Chapman Ave, 616 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Taylor Creek Park Washroom (811 m); Dentonia Park Golf Course Washroom (915 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 Victoria Park & Gower?

Six licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 544 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Dawes Road Centre For Early Learning (284 m, 80 spaces), George Webster Jr YMCA (551 m, 148 spaces) and Eyet Early Learning Centre, Crescent Town Elementary School (692 m, 136 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Victoria Park & Gower?

58 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 6,403 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1043 Victoria Park Ave (300 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 81), 514 Dawes Rd (333 m, 34 units, RentSafeTO score 97), 516 Dawes Rd (336 m, 46 units, RentSafeTO score 90) and 1047 Victoria Park Ave (337 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 84). The average RentSafeTO score across the 58 is 90 out of 100; 2 scored below 70. 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 Victoria Park & Gower?

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and three 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 Clairlea-Birchmount page.

What neighbourhood is Victoria Park & Gower in?

Victoria Park & Gower is in Clairlea-Birchmount (City of Toronto neighbourhood 120). It is in Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest, represented by Councillor Parthi Kandavel.

Sources

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