[299 bloor call control.]

I tend to agree with interchange42 on this one... the other likely scenario is that it used to be a ROW for something (I thought I read someone mention a 401/407 connector) and was declared surplus after the city finalized the road network around the site.

 

[TKTKTK]

I think the poles were merely there to bring power from Finch down to a now vanished farmhouse and barn, and the road was the driveway.

I think this explanation is corroborated by the road ending mid-parcel, rather than connecting two other roads.

 

[Lone Primate]

there's also this one that's just south of the location vito is talking about.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=e....810085,-79.198213&spn=0.002737,0.004989&z=18

what road was that before?

It's just a guess, but based on other aerial shots I've seen, I'd say that's an abandoned rail line spur.

 

[Lone Primate]

I think this explanation is corroborated by the road ending mid-parcel, rather than connecting two other roads.

Yeah, now that he comes to mention it, that does sound like an awfully plausible explanation.

But there is a fairly interesting abandoned road in that vicinity, fellahs... though it runs (ran) east and west, not north and south. It's Passmore Avenue, that once (and to some extent still does) ran parallel to Finch and Steeles between them. I've heard tales of some sort of nuclear or radioactivity facility on the closed eastern portion at some time up to the 70s.

P.S. This is the location from the photos.

 

[Jarrek]

Radioactive Storage Site on Passmore Avenue:

http://www.llrwmo.org/en/programs/historic/scarborough.html

 

[Jarrek]

This is the actual location of the radioactive mound. It's very close to a residential area, though probably too far away to cause any adverse health effects.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=e....832453,-79.239181&spn=0.001935,0.004302&z=18

Interesting.

 

[Lone Primate]

Fascinating stuff.

 

[voxpopulicosmicum]

This is the actual location of the radioactive mound. It's very close to a residential area, though probably too far away to cause any adverse health effects.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=e....832453,-79.239181&spn=0.001935,0.004302&z=18

Interesting.

Wow. We Canadians are quite trusting, which has always given me a warm, fuzzy feeling. Now I am starting to wonder whether the "warm fuzzies" are a symptom of radiation poisoning.