North Creek is a mostly buried watercourse that flows into
Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York. The Canada–United States border sp ...
on the grounds of the former
Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital
The Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital was a psychiatric hospital located in the town of New Toronto, Ontario (now part of the city of Toronto). The hospital grounds now form part of Humber College's Lakeshore Campus.
History
The hospital was built ...
now in
Colonel Samuel Smith Park
Colonel Samuel Smith Park is an urban park in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada and a former weekend get-away destination for Victorian Torontonians. The park has a variety of attractions, including a children's playground locat ...
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Its mouth was at
Kipling Avenue
Kipling Avenue is a street in the cities of Toronto and Vaughan in Ontario, Canada. It is a concession road, 6 concessions (12 km) west from Yonge Street, and is a major north–south arterial road. It consists of three separate section ...
.
Its headwaters were near the present day intersection of the
Queen Elizabeth Way
The Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario linking Toronto with the Niagara Peninsula and Buffalo, New York. The freeway begins at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie and travels around the western ...
and
Browns Line
Browns may refer to:
* Shades of brown of the color brown
Places
;In the United States
* Browns, Alabama, an unincorporated community
* Browns, Illinois, a village
* Browns, Boone County, Missouri, an unincorporated community
* Browns, Scott ...
.
Almost all the creek had been buried by 1960, but part of the creek remains and mouth now flows in an easterly direction instead of southerly into Lake Ontario.
The mouth of
Etobicoke Creek
Etobicoke Creek is a river in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. It is a tributary of Lake Ontario and runs from Caledon, Ontario, Caledon to southern Etobicoke, part of the City of Toronto. The creek is within the jurisdiction of the ...
was approximately 2.5 km to the west of the mouth of North Creek.
The mouth of
Jackson Creek Jackson Creek may refer to:
;In Australia
*Jackson Creek (Victoria), a watercourse of the Port Phillip catchment in Victoria
;In Canada
*Jackson Creek (Alberta)
*Jackson Creek (Toronto)
*Jackson Creek (Peterborough, Ontario)
;In the United States ...
was approximately 700 m to the east of the mouth of North Creek.
See also
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List of rivers of Ontario
This is the list of rivers which are in and flow through Ontario. The watershed list includes tributaries as well.
Dee River, flows between Three Mile Lake and Lake Rosseau.
List of rivers arranged by watershed Hudson Bay
Atlantic Ocean
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Jackson Creek (Toronto)
Jackson Creek is a watercourse that flows into Lake Ontario near 10th Street, in the New Toronto neighbourhood of Etobicoke, a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
It is part of the Great Lakes Basin. Its headwaters were approximately five kilo ...
References
Rivers of Toronto
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