Keating Channel
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The Keating Channel is a 1,000-metre (3,300 ft) long waterway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It connects the Don River to inner Toronto Harbour on Lake Ontario. The channel is named after Edward Henry Keating (1844-1912), a city engineer (1892-1898) who proposed the creation of the channel in 1893. The channel was built to connect Ashbridge's Bay to the harbour; later, the Don was diverted into the channel, and its river mouth infilled in the early 1910s.
Channel, looking east from Cherry St. The channel ends about 5 m behind the camera's viewpoint, the Don River entering in the far background.
During World War One a small shipyard on the Keating Channel built vessels for the war effort.
Debris collected at mouth of the Keating Channel after a storm in August 2005
Filling in part of the mouth of the Keating Channel, to construct Villiers Island.
Don River (Ontario)
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The Don River is a watercourse in southern Ontario that empties into Lake Ontario, at Toronto Harbour. Its mouth was just east of the street grid of the town of York, Upper Canada, the municipality that evolved into Toronto, Ontario. The Don is one of the major watercourses draining Toronto that have headwaters in the Oak Ridges Moraine.
The Don River and the Don Valley Parkway
An 1836 watercolour depicting people curling on the Don River
Construction of the Prince Edward Viaduct over the Don River in January 1917
Construction of the Don Roadway along the eastern portion of Don Valley in 1910. Most of the Roadway was later incorporated into the Don Valley Parkway in the 1960s.