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Kew Gardens is a large park in The Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.The park stretches from Queen Street East to Lake Ontario at Kew Beach.. The park began as a private 20.7-acre (8.4 ha) farm owned by Joseph Williams in the 1850s.
The neighbourhood is located to the East of Toronto's downtown, from Coxwell east to Victoria Park. The lakefront is divided into four sections; Woodbine Beach to the west, Kew Beach and Scarboro Beach in the centre, and Balmy Beach to the east. It is four beaches which give the neighbourhood its name and defining principal characteristic.
Woodbine Beach and Kew-Balmy Beach are Blue Flag certified for cleanliness and are suitable for swimming, [4] with this distinction being awarded to Woodbine since 2005. [1] The beach is maintained by Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation. Since 1990, the quality of the water and sand has improved dramatically. [5]
The King's Observatory (called for many years the Kew Observatory) [1] is a Grade I listed building [2] in Richmond, London. Now a private dwelling, it formerly housed an astronomical and terrestrial magnetic observatory [ 3 ] founded by King George III .
Canada is a beautiful country and an outdoors lover's paradise, with national parks such as Banff and amazing winter sports in Whistler.. But outside Quebec and a handful of other provinces ...
The Martin Goodman Trail is a 56 km (35 mi) [1] [2] multi-use path [3] [4] along the waterfront in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It traverses the entire lake shore from one end of the city to the other, from Humber Bay Arch Bridge in the west to the Rouge River in the east. [2]
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In the 1788 Plan of Toronto by Alexander Aitken, the bluffs were simply known as the High Lands. [2] They became known as the Scarborough Highlands in 1793 named after Scarborough, North Yorkshire . This name was chosen by Elizabeth Simcoe , who was the wife of the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada , John Graves Simcoe .