Talk:Dundas Street

Coordinates
The coordinates need the following fixes:
 * The Wikipedia entry appears farther north than it should be; the coordinates (keeping it in the general area of the map) should be revised to 43.656619,-79.376557.

142.108.224.192 (talk) 18:53, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Edited coordinates. BrainMarble (talk) 02:00, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

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 * The archive link doesn't provide information useful to the article. I removed it today.  PK  T (alk)  18:07, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Source of the name
With reference to this part:
 * It connected the town then known as Coote's Paradise, which would be renamed Dundas in reference to the road, which in turn, was named after Simcoe's friend, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, to settlements west, and also around Lake Ontario to Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake).

Does anybody have a reference for the fact that the town was named after the road and not the reverse? I realize it is strange to our modern sensibilities that an important street in several cities would be named after such an unimportant town, but as the article indicates Dundas was a comparatively much more important place in the early 19th century. It seems more in keeping with the general convention in street naming that streets are named after where they go, rather than towns named after the streets that go through them. And if it the town was named after the street, why pick that particular stop along the expanse of a very long road stretching all the way from York to London? --Saforrest (talk) 08:44, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Handling of the rename
This is a current political controversy, and editing here seems to be heated. I don't want to get too involved but am noticing a lot of reverts (automated plus manual...) Arzg (talk) 16:52, 29 July 2021 (UTC)