Posts Tagged ‘st. clair west’
[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links
- Some of the apartments hit by the Gosford apartment fire have been repaired and opened to their tenants again. Global News reports.
- Steve Munro maps the 70 O’Connor bus route in action as a case study, here.
- Condo developers have created the new neighbourhood of “West St. Clair West” out of, among other established neighbourhoods, Carleton Village. blogTO reports.
- The plans for the controversial new Pharrell Williams condo development at Yonge and Eglinton look interesting. blogTO shares.
- Should Toronto have free public mass transit? NOW Toronto makes the case.
- Brian Doucet at Spacing Toronto takes a look at the Toronto CLRV streetcars in their North American context, here.
- The repeated flooding of the Toronto Islands, as NOW Toronto points out, surely demonstrates the reality of climate change for Toronto.
[PHOTO] Seventeen photos of the Nordheimer Ravine and St. Clair West
A couple of Sundays ago, I went exploring with Jim down in the Nordheimer Ravine, just south of St. Clair West station. We came across some sights of interest, not only the emergency exit used to evacuate subway passengers in the 1995 Russell Hill crash but an additional entrance to St. Clair West station, exiting in the forest on the south side of St. Clair Avenue West. The sight of this apparently fully functional exit, opening out not onto tiles but onto grassy forest floor, was magical.
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[PHOTO] August 2018 Metropass, St. Clair West (#stclairwest)
Does the August Metropass card count as one I could claim as almost being my neighbourhood’s?
Last night, I took a leisurely walk home on a warm summer evening, west on St. Clair from St. Clair West station and then south through Regal Heights, down to the northwesternmost corner of Dovercourt Village.
[PHOTO] A rainy afternoon on Bathurst at St. Clair, looking east
There was something very lovely about the precipitation that hit Toronto on the afternoon of Friday, April the 4th. It was liquid! Warmth, and spring, are lovely.
[PHOTO] Looking down the Glenholme steps
A staircase runs down the escarpment that marks the ancient shoreline of Glacial Lake Iroquois from Glenholme Avenue and Regal Road down to the Davenport Road that follows the escarpment’s contours.
Davenport Road was subject of a 2009 photo essay; the staircases are mentioned in a plaque at the St. Clair streetcar’s Glenholme Avenue stop.
At the beginning of the last great Ice Age, 120,000 years ago, Toronto lay beneath an ice-sheet more than 2 kilometres high. As the glacier retreated the meltwater created an inland sea, twice as large as present day Lake Ontario, called Lake Iroquois. The lake created a shore bluff between the Don and Humber Rivers, where the coastal waters of Lake Iroquois had a sharper drop-off. Silt and mud washed back into the lake, and sand and gravel formed a beach and spits.
As Lake Iroquois drained, first to the south and then through the St. Lawrence river, its water levels fell below those of the present time. This smaller body of water was called Lake Admiralty.
As Lake Admiralty rose to become today’s Lake Ontario, the land north of the escarpment was open and rough, while to the south, the beginnings of Toronto merited the name “Muddy York”.
Visit the 5 staircases along the escarpment for great views of Lake Ontario and the city.
This art gallery page identifies five staircases, running west to east, in the neighbourhoods of “Glenholme, Via Italia, Hillcrest Park, Earlscourt Park [and] Spadina”. (The staircase at Spadina is presumably the Baldwin Steps located just below Casa Loma.)
Looking south takes the eye not only down towards Davenport Road but across the city. I wonder what the view must be like in winter without any leaves on the trees.
[PHOTO] Looking down the Glenholme steps
A staircase runs down the escarpment that marks the ancient shoreline of Glacial Lake Iroquois from Glenholme Avenue and Regal Road down to the Davenport Road that follows the escarpment’s contours.
Davenport Road was subject of a 2009 photo essay; the staircases are mentioned in a plaque at the St. Clair streetcar’s Glenholme Avenue stop.
At the beginning of the last great Ice Age, 120,000 years ago, Toronto lay beneath an ice-sheet more than 2 kilometres high. As the glacier retreated the meltwater created an inland sea, twice as large as present day Lake Ontario, called Lake Iroquois. The lake created a shore bluff between the Don and Humber Rivers, where the coastal waters of Lake Iroquois had a sharper drop-off. Silt and mud washed back into the lake, and sand and gravel formed a beach and spits.
As Lake Iroquois drained, first to the south and then through the St. Lawrence river, its water levels fell below those of the present time. This smaller body of water was called Lake Admiralty.
As Lake Admiralty rose to become today’s Lake Ontario, the land north of the escarpment was open and rough, while to the south, the beginnings of Toronto merited the name “Muddy York”.
Visit the 5 staircases along the escarpment for great views of Lake Ontario and the city.
This art gallery page identifies five staircases, running west to east, in the neighbourhoods of “Glenholme, Via Italia, Hillcrest Park, Earlscourt Park [and] Spadina”. (The staircase at Spadina is presumably the Baldwin Steps located just below Casa Loma.)
Looking south takes the eye not only down towards Davenport Road but across the city. I wonder what the view must be like in winter without any leaves on the trees.
[PHOTO] St. Clair Station, September 2012
Looking east down the streetcar loop inside St. Clair Station, in this shot the line demarcated by the pillars, the overhead lights, the yellow safety paint, stood out particularly for me.
Looking west, the main body of the station as well as the very front of the incoming streetcar by the McDonald’s is visible.
The streetcar approaches from the west.
Already, the passengers present themselves for boarding.
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