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Étienne Brûlé Park is located in the Humber River valley just north of Bloor Street West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is named after Étienne Brûlé, an early French explorer in the Toronto area. It is believed that Étienne Brûlé was the first European to see Lake Ontario in 1615, from a high point of land beside the Humber.
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The Humber River is a river in Southern Ontario, Canada. [2] It is in the Great Lakes Basin, is a tributary of Lake Ontario and is one of two major rivers on either side of the city of Toronto, the other being the Don River to the east. It was designated a Canadian Heritage River on September 24, 1999. [3]
Watershed Music Festival is an annual country music festival held at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington. Produced by Live Nation , the first event was held August 3–5, 2012. [ 1 ] Watershed is a summer festival and is usually a three day event.
The Humber features regularly in medieval British literature. In the Welsh Triads, the Humber is (together with the Thames and the River Severn) one of the three principal rivers of Britain, and is continually mentioned throughout the Brut y Brenhinedd as a boundary between the southern kingdom and various
The Humber River (Ojibwe: Gabekanaang-ziibi, lit. ' river at the end of the trail ') [1] is a river in Southern Ontario, Canada. [2] It is in the Great Lakes Basin, is a tributary of Lake Ontario and is one of two major rivers on either side of the city of Toronto, the other being the Don River to the east.
The Humber is one of Newfoundland's longest rivers. James Cook first charted the Humber in the summer of 1767. [1] It was named for its English counterpart the Humber (estuary). [2] The Humber is rich in Atlantic salmon. From the 1800s, the river was used as a waterway for European trappers and loggers. [3]
TRCA's area of jurisdiction is watershed-based and includes 3,467 square kilometres (1,339 sq mi) – 2,506 on land and 961 water-based in Lake Ontario. This area comprises nine watersheds from west to east – Etobicoke Creek, Mimico Creek, Humber River, Don River, Highland Creek, Petticoat Creek, Rouge River, Duffins Creek and Carruthers Creek.