The Beaches is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is so named because of its four beaches situated on Lake Ontario. It is located east of downtown within the "Old" City of Toronto. The approximate boundaries of the neighbourhood are from Victoria Park Avenue on the east to Kingston Road on the north, along Dundas Street to Coxwell Avenue on the west, south to Lake Ontario. The Beaches is part of the east-central district of Toronto.
Aerial view of The Beaches in 2023
The Beaches is characterized by a large number of independent boutiques along the neighbourhood's portion of Queen Street East.
View of Woodbine Beach, one of the four beach sections that make up the neighbourhood's waterfront.
The former Beach Theatre, presently Beach Mall. A long-standing issue in the community has been the area's name, whether its proper name is "the Beach" or "the Beaches".
Queen Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It extends from Roncesvalles Avenue and King Street in the west to Victoria Park Avenue in the east. Queen Street was the cartographic baseline for the original east–west avenues of Toronto's and York County's grid pattern of major roads. The western section of Queen is a centre for Canadian broadcasting, music, fashion, performance, and the visual arts. Over the past twenty-five years, Queen West has become an international arts centre and a tourist attraction in Toronto.
Looking west along Queen Street from Yonge Street, c. 1885
Former section of Queen St. west of Roncesvalles Ave. in 1956, before becoming absorbed into The Queensway, which is under construction at bottom left
Restaurants in The Beaches
Queen St East at Kingston Road in 2023