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An early 19th-century bank building, representative of the rise of Toronto as a commercial centre and the role played by the Bank of Upper Canada in the development of Upper Canada: Bead Hill [12] [13] 1600s (village established) 1991 (designated); June 15, 2019 (added to national park system) Toronto
Castle Bay (Mi'kmawi'simk: Apji'jkmujue'katik; Scottish Gaelic: Bàgh a' Chaisteil) is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island. The original Mi'kmaq placename, Apji'jkmujue'katik, means, "place of the ducks."
Tommy Thompson Park (Leslie Street Spit) on the Toronto waterfront; Humber Bay Shores Waterfront Park — a park linking City-owned Palace Pier Park and Humber Bay Park East on the south side of Marine Parade Drive to Park Lawn Road in Etobicoke; TRCA briefly managed part of Rouge Park before it was transferred to Parks Canada.
The area was called Fisherman's Island and included a commercial fishery and church. People would travel to and from the mainland of Toronto by boat or across a breakwater that was built in 1882. [3] The beach park was originally named Clarke Beach Park after Harry Clarke, an alderman who was responsible for creating the park in the early 1930s ...
The area, east of Yonge Street, was dominated by industrial uses until the second half of the 20th century. As the harbour declined as a transfer point, the railway and industrial uses left the area. The Esplanade was redeveloped into a residential area, known as the "St. Lawrence Neighbourhood" in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Ashbridges Bay Marsh once existed at the delta of the Don River in Toronto. [1] The marsh extended as far east as today's Leslie Street. Much of the Port Lands were initially part of Ashbridge's Bay, which consisted of a five-square-kilometre triangular area of marshes and ponds surrounded by sandbars.
In 1931, James Stanley McLean constructed "Bay View" (now known as McLean House), a house overlooking the Don Valley with a view south down to Toronto Bay, on the edge of Moore Park [3] and ultimately this led to the road becoming known as Bayview Avenue. Bloor Street Viaduct looking from east side of Don Valley to west.
As Toronto grew, High Park preserved the open space to the north, while the Sunnyside area along the lake was taken over by new rail lines and a hydro-electric line serving Toronto, although the area remained popular for boating and swimming. By 1900, there were calls to clean up the area and in the 1910s, the area was the site of a massive ...