Toronto's Moveable Shoreline

Examines Toronto's early settlement along the shores of Lake Ontario during the first half of the nineteenth century so as to define the nature of the early relationships between the city and its waterfront. These relationships are evaluated and compared to conditions which evolved along the central waterfront, as the process of lakefill continued into the twentieth century, in an effort to understand how the successive filling-in of the lake has altered these early relationships between the city and its waterfront. It concludes by identifying the challenges which must be met if it is to be ensured that the necessary physical linkages are established and that new and fundamentally different relationships between the city and its waterfront evolve.