Waterfront tour, part 5: Canada's Sugar Beach (dial-up warning)

[JeffR]

Our final stop is near the east end of the harbor. We pass the former Yugoslavian cruise ship Jadran, which has housed "Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant" since the mid-70s. The whole operation is for sale, BTW, and can be yours for around a million bucks. The food is said to be pretty awful.



Further east is the Redpath Sugar refinery, which even has - sweet! - a Sugar Museum.



The Pochard out of Antigua, docked at the Jarvis Slip adjacent to the refinery:





And just across the slip we come to Canada's Sugar Beach, which opened in August.

Designed by the Montreal firm Claude Cormier Architectes Paysagistes, the park covers two acres, and like HtO Park from part 3 of the tour, features Adirondack chairs (I'm translating - they're called Muskoka chairs locally), large fiberglass beach umbrellas, and a great view across the bay to the Toronto Islands.











The "beach" is one of the first parts of the redevelopment of this area of the waterfront, a 55-acre tract that will eventually contain more parks, another Wave Deck, commercial space, a college campus and 6,000 homes, 1,200 of which will be affordable housing. The entire project will take over a decade to complete.

Hope you've enjoyed the tour. Please come again!:hi:

Part 1 is here.

Part 2 is here.

Part 3 is here.

Part 4 is here.

[Celebration]

1. I really, really

Enjoyed the tour. Thank you. I'll take most any beach! That is a mighty great city you live in, and one that I have never seen.

I especially love the clouds, and black and white effect of the second to last one.

[NV Whino]

2. Thanks for the tour, JeffR

All the more interesting because of your excellent eye and wonderful photos.

[hippywife]

3. Thanx for the wonderful tour, Jeff.

Really cool. The "beach" seems a little incongruous in that setting, though. The wave decks are my favorite part of the whole thing.

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. A wonderful tour, my dear JeffR!

I love how you alternate the color and b&w pics. Even the pics of the pretty parts of the beach look industrial in b&w...

The contrast with the color ones is astonishing.

I've really enjoyed this tour...I hope one day to visit and to see it for myself!

Thanks for taking us along for the ride...

:hi:

[CC]

5. Thanks for the tour. I love it

and love seeing it through your eyes. I haven't commented but really have loved the tour. Love seeing what Toronto is doing with what was once industrial property. Was thinking the wave decks were my fav but then went back through and was reminded of the statues and the "Minuets" and now just love them all and have no single fav and would love to visit them all some day.

[JeffR]

6. It's hard to decide what's more enjoyable:

exploring the city with a camera in hand, or showing off Hogtown to those who've never been here. Bit of both, I guess. It's a thrill to see new things happening down by the harbor. It's been a very neglected civic resource in all the time I've lived here.

[Solly Mack]

7. Wow.

This has been such a great series. Some I just want to sit and stare at and some I wished I could climb into...all of them I like very much.

[Mz Pip]

8. I loved your tour.

I can see all of these in a gallery on your wharf. They are very professional and each one is terrific. I am partial to the statues and the umbrellas. Nice contrast between the somber and the festive.