Tag: Benlamond

  • March 3 in our past: featuring Tomlin’s Creek

    March 3 in our past: featuring Tomlin’s Creek

    Creeks Woodbine-Coxwell 1918
    Tomlin’s Creek and the other lost streams of the east end, from a 1951 City of Toronto Engineer’s map

    Tomlin’s Creek began where springs ran out of the sand and gravel banks just west of Main Street and south of Benlamond. It is now a “lost creek”, rerouted into the City of Toronto’s sewer system. But it still exists as a ghost creek running as ground water along the ravine.

    Creek east of Glenmount Park Road, May 11, 1933
    Glenmount Park Fill, May 11, 1933
    Pond east of Glenmount Park Road, March 3, 1934
    Creek west of Glenmount Park Road, May 11, 1933
    Pond west of Glenmount Park Road, March 5, 1934
    Rear of south side Corley Ave at Golfview Ave – November 3, 1927
    Rear of south side Corley Ave at Woodbine Ave – November 3, 1927
    Ravine, Corley Avenue, ca. 1930 courtesy of Rae White
    Comparison 1947 to 2017
  • February 28 in our history

    Globe, February 28, 1923 Real Estate