Leslie Street Spit
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The Leslie Street Spit, or officially the Outer Harbour East Headland, is a human-made headland in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, extending from the city's east end in a roughly southwesterly direction int
Tommy Thompson Park Toronto Ontario
Leslie Beach looking east, 1935. The beach disappeared when the spit was constructed.
Leslie Street Spit was the result of decades of land reclamation by the Toronto Port Authority. Beginning in the 1970s, these areas began to be converted into parks by the TRCA.
View of the Outer Harbour East Headland and Vicki Keith Point.
Toronto Islands
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The Toronto Islands are a chain of 15 small islands in Lake Ontario, south of mainland Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Leslie Street Spit
…traffic. The spit is a man-made successor of a natural sand bar / peninsula that existed to the north before infilling of Port Lands and connected to Toronto Islands before 1858. While the original need for the landform was eliminated, the site continued to receive excavation and construction waste from the building…
Aerial view of the Toronto Islands
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club's first clubhouse on the Toronto Islands, completed in 1881.
Opened in 1939 Port George VI Island Airport, the airport was used by expatriate Norwegians RNAF pilots-in-training during the Second World War.
Swan-boat ride at Centreville Amusement Park in 1984. The park was opened in 1967 on Centre Island.