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For many years it was one of the few Toronto beaches that was clean enough for swimming, windsurfing and kitesurfing; It typically meets high water quality, environmental and safety standards; [8] however, a 2012 environmental assessment found that the concentration of lead and zinc in the soil at Cherry Beach is above guidelines, which is attributed to previous industrial use of the area. [2]
Instead this area today is home to Cherry Beach, while the large breakwater known as the Leslie Street Spit is a popular park and birding area. Toronto's waterfront around The Beaches is a single uninterrupted stretch of sandy shoreline.
Woodbine Beach and Kew-Balmy Beach are Blue Flag certified for cleanliness and are suitable for swimming. [3] The park and beach areas of the neighbourhood are known to be animal friendly and offer both on and off-leash dog parks. [4] The neighbourhood also serves as a home to Toronto wildlife. Most recently, Woodbine Beach has become a home to ...
The original M/V Miss Toronto began operating in the Inner Toronto Harbour in 1955. Since then three successive ships have carried the name. The current ship was built in British Columbia and is the first Miss Toronto to be constructed entirely out of aluminum. Peter Ferguson captained Miss Toronto until 2004 when Captain Terry Turl took over ...
The south-western corner of the Port Lands is home to Cherry Beach, parkland similar to the Toronto Islands but surrounded by a mostly vacant, industrial setting. Regatta Road is a short street that runs south of Unwin Avenue just east of Cherry Street along the Martin Goodman Trail. It is home to a number of rowing and sailing clubs:
(The Center Square) – President-elect Donald Trump, who is set to take office Monday, has made a series of promises of major executive actions on “day one” in office. One of the simplest and ...
Map of Leslie Street Spit. The Spit extends from the city's east end in a roughly southwesterly direction into Lake Ontario. The Leslie Street Spit, or officially the Outer Harbour East Headland, is a human-made headland in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, extending from the city's east end in a roughly southwesterly direction into Lake Ontario.
In 1912, the Toronto Harbour Commission drained it and reclaimed the land. [1] The Ashbridges Bay Reclamation Scheme was the largest engineering project in North America at that time, [1] filling in an area from Cherry Street to Leslie Street to create the Port Lands Industrial District and building the Ashbridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant.