It’s been decades since the mighty Don River fed into Lake Ontario through Toronto’s Inner Harbor. A levee, aptly called the north plug, stood in the way, that is until last week when the stop was removed, and the water sources were reunited at last.
The north plug was taken out on November 8 at a ribbon cutting ceremony, eliminating the barrier between Keating Channel and the Don River, south of Lake Shore Bridge. The occasion marked a major milestone for federal, provincial, and city leaders looking to transform the Port Lands, an area on the eastern shoreline ravaged by settler-colonial industrialization.
A crane removes the
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