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The Toronto Harbour Commission (THC) was a joint federal-municipal government agency based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The agency managed Toronto Harbour as well as being responsible for major works along the Toronto waterfront.
This summer, PortsToronto and the Toronto Police Service Marine Unit (TPS Marine Unit) are conducting on-water education and enforcement in the Toronto Harbour in order to reinforce regulations related to speed and noise limits, licensing requirements and on-board safety equipment.
Established following a city referendum in 1911, the Toronto Harbour Commission was placed in charge of the waterfront. Over the next two decades it extended the city south into the lake through lakefilling that created Queen's Quay, the Portlands and Bathurst Quay.
Toronto Harbour Commissioners completes construction of Toronto’s first civil air harbour and commercial seaplane base at the foot of Yonge Street where the TorStar parking lot is now located. 1930 Railway viaduct officially opens.
In 1911, the Toronto Harbour Commission was created. The lands of the waterfront that were owned by the City of Toronto were transferred to the Commission to administer. In 1912, the commission delivered its first plan for the harbour and the waterfront from the Humber River in the west, to Woodbine Avenue to the east.
Oct 8, 2022 · In the early 1920s, the Toronto Harbour Commission made good on a plan hatched years before to fill in a portion of the harbour, which eventually gave rise to Lake Shore Boulevard. Subsequent...
Dec 5, 2021 · Previously called the Toronto Harbour Commission, they worked with photographer Arthur Beales to capture images of the organizations building and development initiatives from 1914 to 1951...
The TPA succeeded the Toronto Harbour Commissioners, which was founded in 1911. The Toronto Harbour Commissioners was a joint federal-municipal agency responsible for the Toronto Harbour and the city’s waterfront. It was under the Harbour Commissioners that Billy Bishop Airport was constructed.
Oct 29, 2023 · The Harbour Commission moved it to its new location near Fleet Street in 1929, where it remains today.
In 1912, the Board of the Toronto Harbour Commission completed a plan for transforming Ashbridges Bay Marsh into a massive new industrial district with waterfront parks and summer homes. The mouth of the Don River was redirected into the concrete-lined Keating Channel in 1914 and infilling of the surrounding wetlands began.
