Nothing I'm willing to hang my own hat on, but it sure *looks* like it's there. The 1983 image seems a bit clearer.
(Images: City of Toronto Archives, Series 12, 1975, Image 52; City of Toronto Archives, Series 12, 1983, Image 51.)
To an extent. It's interesting that before there were suburbs (whether streetcar or automobile-enabled), there were (almost) entirely unregulated shanty-town-like settlements that would sit just outside the city limits. Land prices (and/or rents) would be sufficiently cheap that people on the...
Won't happen unfortunately as Parks Canada is more or less refusing to play ball on any project that has anything at all near the canal. Same goes for the light rail station proposals/blue skying. This is why we can't have nice things.
I currently live in Gatineau, across from Ottawa. I don't have too much to offer in terms of everyday living as it's really all just Ottawa (which comes with it's own set of frustrations separate from those an Anglo in Quebec would find and separate from a Franco in English Ontario would find)...
Definitely not the same as T-R or anything like that. It's really not even much different than Ottawa Lowertown (where I work). Aside from the ratio of English to French speakers.