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Anna
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Named after Messrs Wilson (as in the creek) & Martin maybe?
There was also Wilmar Heights United Church on Pharmacy.
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EVCco
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Interesting!
In fact, this has inspired a new thread:
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/19939-Bygone-Neighbourhoods
In fact, this has inspired a new thread:
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/19939-Bygone-Neighbourhoods
EVCco
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Coxwell Ravine - the gully next door
Not sure how I missed this one all these years. The Coxwell Ravine is only about a 10 minute walk from my house, yet it somehow managed to completely elude my attention. Granted, it's not the most significant feature in the landscape - a tiny sliver of a stream running from the end of Coxwell Ave, at O'Connor, down to the Don, that doesn't even show up on my map. However, Coxwell Ravine Park does show up, which probably should have given me some clue to its existence. Nevertheless, after entering the park from O'Connor, it still took some doing to find the source of the stream which, once found, was quickly swallowed up again by a dense morass of undergrowth, flowing only intermittently northwards:
After disappearing again it takes some more doing to find the stream's exit out of the park and into the Don Valley Parkway:
Following along into the southeast cloverleaf of the Don Mills/DVP interchange:
Across the DVP where the stream runs dry before it can empty into the Don:
Not sure how I missed this one all these years. The Coxwell Ravine is only about a 10 minute walk from my house, yet it somehow managed to completely elude my attention. Granted, it's not the most significant feature in the landscape - a tiny sliver of a stream running from the end of Coxwell Ave, at O'Connor, down to the Don, that doesn't even show up on my map. However, Coxwell Ravine Park does show up, which probably should have given me some clue to its existence. Nevertheless, after entering the park from O'Connor, it still took some doing to find the source of the stream which, once found, was quickly swallowed up again by a dense morass of undergrowth, flowing only intermittently northwards:
After disappearing again it takes some more doing to find the stream's exit out of the park and into the Don Valley Parkway:
Following along into the southeast cloverleaf of the Don Mills/DVP interchange:
Across the DVP where the stream runs dry before it can empty into the Don:
r937
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you and i are practically neighbours
i love that ravine, i used to sneak down to the valley from coxwell and o'connor that way rather than the safer route through cullen bryant park and its sensible stairway, until the sewer project closed it off a couple years ago ... so you're saying that the ravine path from o'connor is available again now that the sewer project has finished?
oh, and once again, very nice pics, evcco
here's another article which touches on the same area -- http://abbey-trails.blogspot.ca/2011/06/june-19-2011-science-centre-to-forks.html
EVCco
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Thanks!
The entry from O'Connor still seemed to be cordoned off and I had to go in through a rather overgrown area from which it took a little while to find anything resembling a path - but once I did there was quite a few of them
The entry from O'Connor still seemed to be cordoned off and I had to go in through a rather overgrown area from which it took a little while to find anything resembling a path - but once I did there was quite a few of them
EVCco
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New Toronto Shoreline - nothing new under the sun
Following in the footsteps of datgtatrailsguy's trip of a few months back around Colonel Samuel Smith Park, I thought I'd take in the last little bit of summer by tooling around the central Etobicoke lakeshore myself; beginning at the Sam Smith creek, which flows from the Humber College Lakeshore Campus down into the lake itself:
Now for a walk around the rest of the Colonel's park - heading east to west, then back again:
A little further east, along the Waterfront Trail, I check in at the 12th Street Parkette and Rotary Park:
One of the more unique drinking fountains in the city greats me at Cliff Lumsden Park (and I've seen most of them: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ev1ct0rc/sets/72157632887043543/):
I bid adieu to the day, and to summer '13, at Prince of Wales Park near Lake Shore & 2nd:
Following in the footsteps of datgtatrailsguy's trip of a few months back around Colonel Samuel Smith Park, I thought I'd take in the last little bit of summer by tooling around the central Etobicoke lakeshore myself; beginning at the Sam Smith creek, which flows from the Humber College Lakeshore Campus down into the lake itself:
Now for a walk around the rest of the Colonel's park - heading east to west, then back again:
A little further east, along the Waterfront Trail, I check in at the 12th Street Parkette and Rotary Park:
One of the more unique drinking fountains in the city greats me at Cliff Lumsden Park (and I've seen most of them: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ev1ct0rc/sets/72157632887043543/):
I bid adieu to the day, and to summer '13, at Prince of Wales Park near Lake Shore & 2nd:
datgtatrailsguy
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Hard to believe it was near the beginning of summer when I was there and now it's just about over...
EVCco
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Black Creek Branches - running on empty
Yet another sign that I'm running out of new places to go is that I seem to keep returning to the same locales. Here I am again, back at the Black Creek watershed, the site of my very first Urban Wilderness trek, and numerous subsequent journeys since. However, today's subtitle refers not just to my ever dwindling stock of unexplored locations, but also to today's locations themselves - four different streams in various states of fluidity; from barely there to not there at all. The first is Heathrow Creek, which once connected to the Black Creek near Jane & Wilson, but now stops short at Heathrow Drive - the spot where I start, heading north, through Heathrow Park:
No need to see a doctor about your eyes! The blurry, muted tone of most of these photos is due to my shitty camera's inability to handle low-light conditions. At any rate, the creek seems to run dry as I enter Exbury Park, but faint traces appear, here and there, before I hit its source just north of Tavistock Road:
The next location is the first of a trio of unnamed ravines which empty into Black Creek in the Downsview Dells. And "empty" is indeed the operative word with this particular one that runs roughly between Brixham Terrace and Skipton Court - as, save for the slightest trickle eminating from its initial outfall, there is not the slightest trace of water in this currently barren gully:
After meeting the Black Creek I head back up the next ravine which flows with a little more liquidity, between the Whitburn Crescent and Diana Drive areas:
The last heads back toward the Black Creek from Diana Park, just south of Sheppard. Along the way it, too, fluctuates in and out of aquatic existence before its progress is ultimately impeded by Seeley Drive:
At least two more waterways (that I know of) branch off from the Black Creek before it hits the city limits at Steeles Ave. But I call it a day here and head back home as, in following with the vague Jackson Browne theme of this post, I'm late for the sky - whatever that means...
Yet another sign that I'm running out of new places to go is that I seem to keep returning to the same locales. Here I am again, back at the Black Creek watershed, the site of my very first Urban Wilderness trek, and numerous subsequent journeys since. However, today's subtitle refers not just to my ever dwindling stock of unexplored locations, but also to today's locations themselves - four different streams in various states of fluidity; from barely there to not there at all. The first is Heathrow Creek, which once connected to the Black Creek near Jane & Wilson, but now stops short at Heathrow Drive - the spot where I start, heading north, through Heathrow Park:
No need to see a doctor about your eyes! The blurry, muted tone of most of these photos is due to my shitty camera's inability to handle low-light conditions. At any rate, the creek seems to run dry as I enter Exbury Park, but faint traces appear, here and there, before I hit its source just north of Tavistock Road:
The next location is the first of a trio of unnamed ravines which empty into Black Creek in the Downsview Dells. And "empty" is indeed the operative word with this particular one that runs roughly between Brixham Terrace and Skipton Court - as, save for the slightest trickle eminating from its initial outfall, there is not the slightest trace of water in this currently barren gully:
After meeting the Black Creek I head back up the next ravine which flows with a little more liquidity, between the Whitburn Crescent and Diana Drive areas:
The last heads back toward the Black Creek from Diana Park, just south of Sheppard. Along the way it, too, fluctuates in and out of aquatic existence before its progress is ultimately impeded by Seeley Drive:
At least two more waterways (that I know of) branch off from the Black Creek before it hits the city limits at Steeles Ave. But I call it a day here and head back home as, in following with the vague Jackson Browne theme of this post, I'm late for the sky - whatever that means...
EVCco
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Here and There - miscellanea, sundries, & etcetera
As my travels have become a bit shorter, and my posts a little more infrequent as of late, I thought I'd just do a quick compilation of a few recent mini-treks which didn't quite warrant posts of their own.
First up, a trip I made back in August to the Renforth Creek to polish off a few missing pieces in Centennial Park:
Next, a little spur of water off the Don River, just south of the Bayview-DVP connector, which I assume merges either with Yellow Creek or the Spadina Storm Trunk Sewer:
Staying with the Don, but now heading up the East Branch to a pair of ravines eminating around Pineway Park, near Cummer and Leslie:
Finally, off to the Humber River, just a few days ago, beginning at a stream running down the west bank through South Humber Park...:
...then up along the east bank to document the sandbar bay area at Humber Marshes Park:
As my travels have become a bit shorter, and my posts a little more infrequent as of late, I thought I'd just do a quick compilation of a few recent mini-treks which didn't quite warrant posts of their own.
First up, a trip I made back in August to the Renforth Creek to polish off a few missing pieces in Centennial Park:
Next, a little spur of water off the Don River, just south of the Bayview-DVP connector, which I assume merges either with Yellow Creek or the Spadina Storm Trunk Sewer:
Staying with the Don, but now heading up the East Branch to a pair of ravines eminating around Pineway Park, near Cummer and Leslie:
Finally, off to the Humber River, just a few days ago, beginning at a stream running down the west bank through South Humber Park...:
...then up along the east bank to document the sandbar bay area at Humber Marshes Park:
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