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Marie Curtis Park is a public park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It is located at the mouth of the Etobicoke Creek on Lake Ontario in the Long Branch neighbourhood. Marie Curtis Park was built after the devastating floods of Hurricane Hazel in 1954 destroyed 56 homes and cottages on the site, leaving 1,868 persons homeless and 81 dead. [2]
Marie Curtis Park is a municipal park at western boundary of Long Branch. The park is situated along Etobicoke Creek.. Long Branch is bounded by Lake Ontario on the south, with western boundaries of Etobicoke Creek north of Lake Shore Blvd. West and the western property line of the Canadian Arsenals Ltd. (Small Arms Ltd., WWII) (now within Marie Curtis Park) south of Lakeshore Road in Mississauga.
The 35-acre park created at the mouth of Etobicoke Creek was named Marie Curtis Park in her honour. [2] It was dedicated on June 5, 1959, by Fred Gardiner, the Metro Chairman, and is marked by a plaque and cairn. [26] Curtis is an inductee into the Etobicoke Hall of Fame. [2] She was inducted in 1988. [27]
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Ashbridges Bay Park opened in 1977. In the early 2000s the park was improved by Waterfront Toronto , including the building of a skateboard park . The current bay is surrounded by marinas, the treatment plant and a small tree lined section along Lake Shore Boulevard East such that the original natural shoreline has disappeared completely.
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Simcoe Park is a park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Worker's Monument (or 100 Workers Monument) is installed in the park. [1] [2] Simcoe Park was used by Occupy ...