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Major highways here include the 427, Queen Elizabeth Way, and the Gardiner Expressway.
The Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) Line 2 Bloor-Danforth subway route services this riding.
The riding sits 490km from Parliament Hill. The drive is about five hours.
The Humber River Marsh has over 60 species such as pike, sunfish, black crappie, carp and chinook salmon. It’s also an important breeding habitat for ducks, turtles, and fish.
The riding is on the northern shore of Lake Ontario. The Humber River and its surround parklands forms the riding’s eastern border. Mimico Creek also flows through the riding, almost parallel to the Humber River.
About 38% of the riding’s population are immigrants, with some of the largest populations born in Poland, Ukraine, and the Philippines.
Polish, Ukrainian, and Spanish are the most common non-official mother tongues in the riding.
Less than 1% of the riding’s population identify as Aboriginal.
Average individual income is $59,192.
Humber Bay Park is on the waterfront and has trails, fly casting, boating ponds, and a fishing pier.
Colonel Samuel Smith Park is another large waterfront park, an excellent spot for birders to spot herons, hawks, waterfowl, and more.
King’s Mill Park, one of the many parks that form the chain of Humber River parklands, has an off-leash dog area for man’s best friend to run and play and meet other canines.
The MasterCard Centre for Hockey Excellence is the official practice rink of the Toronto Maple Leafs and their minor-league affiliate, the Toronto Marlies.
The neighbourhood of Mimico got its name from the Ojibwe word “Omiimiikaa,” meaning “abundant with wild pigeons.”
Park Lawn Cemetery is the final resting place of two former owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Harold Ballard and Conn Smythe, and former Toronto mayor Rob Ford.
The top industrial sector is professional, scientific and technical services, followed by retail trade. Almost 12% of the riding’s workforce has a job in the field of professional, scientific and technical services.
About 63% of the riding’s labour force has some sort of post-secondary education.
The Humber Bay Butterfly Habitat is an ecological restoration project designed to establish a self-sustaining native plant community with a variety of butterfly species. Visitors are encouraged to come by bicycle as the butterfly habitat is located immediately south of the Waterfront Trail, a popular destination for cyclists and walkers. Alternatively, the park is easily accessed through public transit as well.
The New Toronto neighbourhood got its start in 1906 when the Grand Trunk Railway opened a freight yard, repair shops, and a roundhouse in the area. The railway would attract more industry and in 1917 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company opened a plant. The neighbourhood would develop quickly and incorporate itself as a town in 1920, and then eventually be amalgamated into the former Township of Etobicoke in 1967.
