On October 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel collided head on with the Toronto shore, and unleashed torrential rains that increased in intensity as the night progressed, sweeping boats, houses and corpses out into the Lake. When it was all over, more than eighty people were dead in Southern Ontario, the vast majority of whom were from Toronto and […]

The sweltering days of mid-summer have come again early this year, and Torontonians are flocking to the city’s waterfront trails, parks, and numerous blue flag beaches in record numbers. This renewed interest and activity at the shore is encouraging, and harkens back to the days in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when tens […]