Wharves and Piers
Wharves existed along Toronto's waterfront in the 19th Century, but they have since been replaced by quays. Most of the former wharves disappeared when the waterfront was filled in along with the now "missing" Creeks of Toronto.
A list of former wharves along the central waterfront:
- Dufferin Street Wharf
- Queen's Wharf - Bathurst Street
- Conner's Wharf - York Street
- Millous Wharf - Yonge Street
- Hamilton Wharf - Church Street
- Sylvester Brothers and Hickman's Wharf - Church Street
- Northern Railway Wharf and Elevator - Portland Street
- Taylor's Wharf - George Street
- Hogarty and Grussett Wharf and Elevator - Simcoe Street
- Walsh and Love's Wharf - Simcoe Street
- Tinning's Wharf - York Street
- Higginbotham's Wharf - Yonge Street
- Manson's Wharf - Market Street
- Toronto and Northern Railway Wharf - Berkerley Street
- Gooderham's Wharf and Elevator - Don River
A list of current quays/slips along the waterfront:
- Bathurst Quay
- Maple Leaf Quay
- John Quay
- York Quay
- Queen's Quay
- Yonge Quay
- Rees St. Slip
- Simcoe St. Slip
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Famous quotes containing the words wharves and, wharves and/or piers:
“Over the tree-tops I float thee a song,
Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the
prairies wide,
Over the dense-packed cities all and the teeming wharves and ways,
I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee, O death,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences. Serpents, bears, hyenas, tigers rapidly vanish as civilization advances, but the most populous and civilized city cannot scare a shark far from its wharves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)