Popular Toronto beach is all that's left of a lost island community killed by industry

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When a huge 1858 storm carved out the harbour's Eastern Gap and turned what was once a sandbar peninsula into the Toronto Islands, it left an orpha...

and turned what was once a sandbar peninsula into the Toronto Islands, it left an orphaned section of sandbar and community that would struggle on for another half-century before disappearing entirely.

Residents and workers accessed its sandy streets via ferry or a narrow government breakwater extending through the marsh. It had homes, a commercial fishery, and even a church, but it wouldn't last. Ashbridge's Bay Marsh, once a source of food and water, had become a polluted cesspool of disease by the turn of the 20th century as the city population swelled, and the Toronto Harbour Commission infilled the marsh to become a new home for heavy industry,

 

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