Danforth Road was named for American temporary worker Asa Danforth Jr., who fabricated parts of what might progress toward becoming Queen Street and Kingston Road. He began work in 1799 on Danforth's Road as (initially) a hundred-mile course from Scarborough to the Trent River. That street was finished 1801, yet soon fell into decay and was to a great extent supplanted by the 1817 Kingston Road stagecoach course.