Port Lands
In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Port Lands were shaped by human intervention – the filling of the Don River Estuary and the expansion of Toronto’s Port Lands – all in support of industrial and commercial prosperity. The result sacrificed important aspects of the natural environment and created a flood risk which keeps any further or future development at bay.
An emerging plan to restore the naturalized river mouth and wet lands would preserve our natural spaces, eliminate the flood risk and enable the development of a whole new city.