Queens Quay is a prominent street in the Harbourfront neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The street was originally commercial in nature due to the many working piers along the waterfront; parts of it have been extensively rebuilt in since the 1970s with parks, condominiums, retail, as well as institutional and cultural development.
Looking east down Queens Quay, next to Ann Tindal Park.
Queens Quay in 1910
Image: Little Norway Park
Image: Canada Malting Silos
Harbourfront is a neighbourhood on the northern shore of Lake Ontario within the downtown core of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Part of the Toronto waterfront, Harbourfront extends from Bathurst Street in the west, along Queens Quay, with its ill-defined eastern boundary being either Yonge Street or York Street. Its northern boundary is the Gardiner Expressway. Much of the district was former water lots filled in during the early 1900s to create a larger harbour district. After shipping patterns changed and the use of the Toronto harbour declined, the area was converted from industrial uses to a mixed-use district that is mostly residential and leisure.
Harbourfront consists of the northern shoreline of Downtown Toronto
View of the Harbourfront in 1841. The area surrounding the Toronto Harbour has been used for shipping and industrial purposes since the settlement of York.
Harbourfront Centre was formed in 1991 in an effort to create a waterfront park in Toronto.
Skating outside Harbourfront Centre. The centre is a cultural organization established by the federal government, at Harbourfront.