Toronto
Harbour is a bay on the north shore
of Lake Ontario, in Canada. Originally
a low sandy peninsula formed the southern
limit of the bay. The mouth of the
harbour pointed west. The eastern
shore of the bay, approximately six
kilometres east, was a marsh around
the mouth of the Don River. Low sandy
bluffs lined the northern shore. In
1858 a storm washed a channel through
the eastern edge of the peninsula
that formed the south edge of the
bay, forming the Toronto Islands.
As the city of Toronto grew the northern
shore of the bay has been altered
by landfill, and has been moved approximately
500 meters south. In addition to the
Don River a number of smaller creeks
flowed into the bay.
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