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Toronto Islands

Photos and transcription by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted August, 2015

Photo Source - Toronto Public Library Digital Archive

Next to Sugar Beach on Corus Quay, south of Dockside Drive can be seen this Mississaugas of the New Credit/Trans Canada Trail/Province of Ontario/Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games plaque. Here's what it says:

Coordinates: 43.643253 -79.367145

The Mississaugas' traditional lands are located in southern Ontario. They spent their summers on these lands near the mouths of rivers and streams and on these Toronto Islands.
The Toronto Islands were originally a long peninsula named 'Menecing', which translates "On the Island".
The peninsula was a series of connected sand spits that held spiritual significance for the Mississaugas. The long beach was considered a place of healing and the Mississaugas brought their sick here to recuperate. Early references speak to the healthy atmosphere and the "peculiarly clear and fine" air of the peninsula. In addition to its restorative power, the peninsula was used for numerous ceremonial purposes including childbirth and burials.
In the 1850s, a series of storms disconnected the body of the peninsula from the mainland and led to the creation of the Toronto Islands as they exist today.

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Mississauga Settlements on the Humber River

Plaques found on Toronto Island
Allan A. Lamport Regatta Course
Babe Ruth at Hanlan's Point
Gibraltar Point
Gibraltar Point Lighthouse
Island Filtration Plant
The Lake Light
Manitou Road
Milton Acorn and Gwendolyn MacEwen
Ned Hanlan 1855-1908
Queen City Yacht Club
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club
St. Andrew-by-the-Lake
Toronto Island

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