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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]
The creek ends in a large recreational area, Marie Curtis Park. It is surrounded by cliffs and the bottom is solid stone, often covered with smaller rocks. It is full of small fish and crayfish, a sign of purity of water.
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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The city's limits are formed by Lake Ontario to the south, the western boundary of Marie Curtis Park, Etobicoke Creek, Eglinton Avenue and Highway 427 to the west, Steeles Avenue to the north and the Rouge River and the Scarborough–Pickering Townline to the east.
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