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McCowan District Park is a 8.1-hectare (20-acre) recreational park in the Eglinton East neighbourhood of Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The park is located along McCowan Road , south of the Lakeshore East commuter rail line of GO Transit .
The following is a list of the parks in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The appearance of Toronto's ravines was altered by floods caused by Hurricane Hazel in October 1954 and many of Toronto's parks were established in the resulting floodplain.
Colonel Samuel Smith Park is an urban park in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada and a former weekend get-away destination for Victorian Torontonians. The park has a variety of attractions, [ 2 ] including a children's playground located only steps from Lake Ontario .
The park incorporates elements of a park, beach, and golf course. The park's standout feature is a sandpit that holds Muskoka chairs and enormous fixed yellow metal umbrellas. The umbrellas were designed to evoke the Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte . [ 1 ]
Sugar Beach is an urban beach park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that opened in 2010. It is located across from Redpath Sugar Refinery in Toronto's eastern East Bayfront . Like HTO Park to the west, the beach is not meant for wading or swimming in Lake Ontario , but rather functions as a waterfront public space for relaxation, leisure, and ...
www.toronto.ca /data /parks /prd /facilities /complex /196 /index.html Christie Pits (officially Willowvale Park until 1983) is a public recreational area in Toronto , Ontario, Canada. It is located at 750 Bloor Street West at Christie Street, [ 1 ] just west of the Toronto Transit Commission 's Christie subway station .
In celebration of 125 years of Ontario Parks and 150 years of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, the Killarney Provincial Park Observatory complex was upgraded to include a new observatory facility. This one includes a 16" fully automated Meade LX600 (primary instrument) and a Meade 130mm (5") apochromatic refractor (secondary instrument).
The 51 hectares (130 acres) park was built on farm land owned by John Bales, which later became York Downs Golf and Country Club in 1922. [3] The land was saved from development after the sale of the club which relocated in 1969 to Unionville, Ontario and was turned into an urban park [ 4 ] in 1975. [ 5 ]