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Photo: Benson Kua from Toronto, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ireland Park contains a memorial about the Irish Potato Famine of the mid-19th century. This memorial, depicting life-size statues of hunger victims, is similar in style and identical in purpose to a memorial on the Liffey River in Dublin.
Ireland Park is located on the shores of Lake Ontario on Éireann Quay, adjoining the Canada Malting Silos, at the foot of Bathurst Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Officially opened in the summer of 2007, Ireland Park commemorates the estimated 38,000 Irish who left Ireland during the Great Famine and the over 1,100 new immigrants who died during the Typhus epidemic of 1847.
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Designed by cellist Yo Yo Ma and landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy, the Toronto Music Garden is an interpretation of Bach's First Suite for Unaccompanied Cello. Wheelchair accessible.
An urban wildlife sanctuary and wetland restoration site.
This public park by the water's edge contains a sandy area with beach umbrellas and lounge chairs. It is used for relaxing, sunbathing but not for swimming. On the west side of the park, one may see two fire fighting boats beside a fire hall. On the east side of the fire hall, there is a memorial to firefighters who died on duty. The name HTO is a play on H2O and "TO" which is a nickname for Toronto. There is also a HTO West Park, without a sandy area, just across the inlet from the fire hall.
This quaint lighthouse was built in 1861, decommissioned in 1911, and moved to its current site in 1929.
The memorial commemorates Chinese workers who died in the 19th century doing railway construction. It consists of a full scale mockup of a small wooden railway trestle under construction with two statues of construction workers.
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