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Bay Street

• a Toronto street on which is located the Toronto Stock Exchange and numerous financial houses, considered the financial centre of Canada; hence, the moneyed interests of the country, especially of Ontario and eastern Canada, collectively.

  See also: St. James Street  

  • 1953  (1958)  "Where did you meet this Bay Street pal of yours? Known him long?"
  • 1963  Bay Street and St. James Street may well have been dilatory in examining the investment prospects offered by this province [British Columbia].
  • 1965  . . . his success in optioning the . . . claims . . . soon had Bay Street rocking.