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- Along the Shore: Rediscovering Toronto's Waterfront Heritage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Toronto area residents and visitors who are curious about the history of some of the city's outstanding waterfront features will like M. Jane Fairburn's Along the Shore. The book offers a trove of historical information about four areas of this urban metropolis that have retained their natural beauty, including the Scarborough Shore, the Beach, the Island, and the Lakeshore.
- Ashbridge's Bay
An Anthology of Writings by Those Who Knew and Loved Ashbridge's Bay
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
The story of a great freshwater marsh destroyed by urbanization.
- Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant - Site Design
Resource Type: Website
- Cherry Beach
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Cherry Beach, originally called Clarke Beach Park, was established as a recreational beach in the 1930s. Established close to the mouth of the Don River, Cherry Beach was very close to what was then a heavily industrial area.
- Deputation Opposing Island Airport Expansion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
It is absurd to have a major airport on a city's waterfront. The negative impacts -- air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, massively increased traffic, the risk of planes taking off and landing with a few hundred meters of homes and schools -- are clear and unacceptable.
- Deputation to the Toronto Board of Health regarding proposed expansion of Island Airport
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The waterfront is a highly utilized collective space that we have highly invested in to be used for recreational activities that promote health and fit into the city's vision of increasing green space. Why would we destroy it with an expanding airport?
- Environmental Resources of the Toronto Central Waterfront
Inventory - Interpretations - Synthesis and Performance Requirements for Future Action
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
- Foggy fireworks don't flop
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1982
A special evening watching fireworks in the fog.
- Great Country Walks Around Toronto
Within reach by public transit
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Historical Atlas of Toronto
Resource Type: Book
- I Remember Sunnyside
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Island Airport Insanity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
Airports don't belong in the middle of downtown.
- Keating Channel Flood Inquiry Report
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- Letter to Toronto City Council regarding jets at Toronto Island airport
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
We are writing to express grave concerns regarding the proposal to expand the Billy Bishop Airport to jets. We are community health physicians and are extremely alarmed by the potential health harm of jets which will particularly impact the community that lives in such close proximity to the airport.
- More Than an Island
A History of the Toronto Island
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
A thorough history of the natural, social, political, and economic history of the Toronto Island.
- 150 years of dirty water
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
Toronto's water has been polluted pretty much since the city was founded - but that doesn't mean we should put up with it.
- Port Industrial Development Task Force
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
- Porter's corporate interests can't be allowed to trump public health
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
We are concerned that it will be the children who live, study and play less than 300 metres from the current airport in the high-rises, the Waterfront school, Little Norway Park, the daycare and community centre who will be most affected by the addition of jets. Consider that landings and takeoffs generate the highest emissions and that peak airport periods coincide with times children walk to and from school.
- Regeneration
Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City
Resource Type: Book
- Save Our Waterfront
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2013
An architect, a doctor, a teacher & mother and a sailor tour Toronto Harbour and discuss the negative impacts the expansion of BIlly Bishop airport would have on the environment.
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- Special Places
The Changing Ecosystems of the Toronto Region
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Special Places explores the changing ecosystem of the Toronto area over the past century, looking at the environmental conditions that influence the whol region and at the surprising range of plants and animals you can find in many of its natural spaces.
- STOL lands again
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
The proposal for a major commerical airport on the Toronto Islands appears to be back on the agenda.
- Toronto Islands
Plant Communities and Noteworthy Species
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Utopia: Towards a New Toronto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Torontonians begin to see their city as a place of possibility and potential. Visions of a truly workable, liveable and world-class city are once again dancing in citizens' heads. "uTOpia" aims to capture and chronicle that spirit, collecting writing by many of the people inspired by and involved in the developing projects.
- The Waterfront Trail
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Watershed Plan Highlights
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
- Why Saying No to Toronto Airport Expansion Makes Sense
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Saying no to the expansion of the Toronto Island Airport and introduction of jet aircrafts is the economical, ecological and socially responsible thing to do.
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