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Taddle Creek is a buried
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in
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,
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, Canada that flowed a southeasterly course about six kilometres long, from St. Clair Avenue west of Bathurst Street through the present site of
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, through the
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, into the
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near the
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. During the 19th century, it was buried and converted into an underground sewer, but traces of the creek can still be found today. The scenic footpath known as
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follows the ravine created by the creek from the
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to
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. ''Taddle Creek'' is also the name of a Toronto literary magazine and of a local
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school.


History

In the 1790s, the original town site of the
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was established along its south bank. Its waters would be used by its first industries. The disappearance of the creek came in phases in the 19th century: * east of Church Street - before 1860 * Elizabeth Street to Church Street - early 1866 * University of Toronto sections including McCaul's Pond - 1886 There is no exact origin for the creek's name but there are three possible theories: * named for the Tattle family of Toronto * named for the tadpoles that filled the creek * onomatopoeic link of an English northcountry dialect variant of ''toddle'' meaning "to move with a gentle sound, as a stream or river" Taddle Creek had other names during the 19th Century: * Little Don River * Brewery Creek - named for Enoch Turner's brewery * Goodwin Creek * University Creek * Wolz Creek - east of Jarvis after brewer Mr. Woltz


Taddle Creek Park

Taddle Creek Park is a small but busy park at the southwest corner of Lowther Avenue and Bedford Road, in
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area of Toronto. The park was created in 1976, on what had been the site of the home of
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, and beside the home of
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(the first female computer scientist in Canada). After extensive renovations, the park reopened in July 2011, with an avant-garde sculpture centrepiece by Ilan Sandler, created from of stainless steel rod, the approximate length of Taddle Creek.


See also

* ''Taddle Creek'' (magazine) *
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*
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References


External links


''Lost Rivers'' entry on Taddle Creek

''Taddle Creek'' magazine
{{Toronto Waterways Rivers of Toronto Subterranean rivers