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The Regional Municipality of York, also called York Region, is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada, between Lake Simcoe and Toronto.The region was established after the passing of then Bill 102, An Act to Establish The Regional Municipality of York, in 1970.
There are several rivers in the world called the Humber River: Humber (estuary), Yorkshire, England, on the eastern coast; Humber River (Newfoundland), near Corner Brook in Canada; Humber River (Ontario), Canada, a major river in Toronto with tributaries throughout the Greater Toronto Area
There are numerous theories for how the hydronym of Humber is derived from Celtic or Pre-Celtic languages. For example, it may be a Brittonic formation containing -[a]mb-ṛ, a variant of the element *amb meaning "moisture", with the prefix *hu-meaning "good, well" (c.f. Welsh hy-, in Hywel, etc).
The Area was acquired in 1957 to construct a flood control dam and reservoir after the destruction caused by Hurricane Hazel.. In 2003, in partnership with HSBC Bank, a contributor to the TRCA foundation, 150 volunteers planted over 850 new trees and shrubs in the area, creating 7.5 hectares (18.5 acres) of forest.
The Humber River (Ojibwe: Gabekanaang-ziibi, lit. ' river at the end of the trail ') [1] is a river in Southern Ontario, Canada. [2] It is in the Great Lakes Basin, is a tributary of Lake Ontario and is one of two major rivers on either side of the city of Toronto, the other being the Don River to the east.
Humberwood is named after the Humber River, which flows along its northern edge. Humberwood is bound to the north by the Humber River western branch from Highway 427 east to Highway 27, Highway 27 south to Rexdale Boulevard, east on Rexdale Boulevard to Islington Avenue, south on Islington to Highway 401, and west along the 401 to Highway 427. [1]
Heavy rains wash pollutants down the Humber River making it unsafe to swim at Sunnyside Beach and Marie Curtis Beach. The Islands would be connected by an underwater berm and would have formed a chain that extended about one kilometre into the lake. [3] The Islands would have required 1,800,000 cubic metres of landfill.
Humber may refer to: Rivers. The Humber, a river and large tidal estuary in northern England. Humber River (Newfoundland and Labrador), Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; Humber River (Toronto), Ontario, Canada; People. Humber the Hun was a legendary king of the Huns; Philip Humber, a pitcher in Major League Baseball; Richard A. Humber ...