East Humber River Trail Exploration

 

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  • Relevant Material: "The Humber River (Ojibwe: Gabekanaang-ziibi, lit. 'river at the end of the trail')[1] is a river in Southern Ontario, Canada.[2] It is in the Great Lakes Basin, is a tributary of Lake Ontario and is one of two major rivers on either side of the city of Toronto, the other being the Don River to the east. It was designated a Canadian Heritage River on September 24, 1999.[3]

    The Humber collects from about 750 creeks and tributaries in a fan-shaped area north of Toronto that encompasses portions of Dufferin County, the Regional Municipality of Peel, Simcoe County, and the Regional Municipality of York. The main branch runs for about 100 kilometres (60 mi)[3] from the Niagara Escarpment in the northwest, while another major branch, known as the East Humber River, starts at Lake St. George in the Oak Ridges Moraine near Aurora to the northeast. They join north of Toronto and then flow in a generally southeasterly direction into Lake Ontario at what was once the far western portions of the city.[4] The river mouth is flanked by Sir Casimir Gzowski Park and Humber Bay Park East..The Humber watershed is a hydrological feature of south-central Ontario, Canada, principally in north and west Toronto. It has an area of 903 square kilometres (349 sq mi), flowing through numerous physio-graphic regions, including the Oak Ridges Moraine and the Niagara Escarpment.[18] The watershed is bounded on the west by the Credit River, Etobicoke Creek and Mimico Creek watersheds, and on the east by the Garrison Creek, Don River and Rouge River watersheds, all six of which empty into Lake Ontario; on the north by the Nottawasaga River which empties into Lake Huron; and on the northeast by the Holland River, which empties into Lake Simcoe.[3]

    Unlike the Don to the east, the Humber remained relatively free from industrialization as Toronto grew. Since the flooding of Hurricane Hazel, it has been largely developed or redeveloped as parkland, with the extensive and important wetlands on its southern end remaining unmolested. Whereas the mouth of the Don is often clogged with flotsam and is obstructed by low bridges, the Humber is navigable and used for recreation and fishing.

    Today the majority of the Toronto portion of the Humber is parkland, with paved trails running from the lake shore all the way to the northern border of the city some 30 km away. Trails following the various branches of the river form some 50 km of bicycling trails, much of which are in decent condition. Similar trails on the Don tend to be narrower and in somewhat worse condition, but the complete set of trails is connected along the lake shore, for some 100 km of off-road paved trails.

    Tributaries



    • Albion Creek - The Albion Creek is a tributary of the West Humber. It flows south-west from east of Bolton, meeting the West Humber from the north, between Islington Avenue and Martin Grove Road. It is approximately 9 km long.
    • Berry Creek - Berry Creek originates at Martin Grove Road just north of Rexdale Boulevard. It flows south-east to meet the main Humber from the west, west of the intersection of Albion Road and Weston Road, where Albion Road crosses the Humber. It is about 3.8 km long.
    • Black Creek - The Black Creek originates north of Toronto in Vaughan and meanders southerly to meet the lower Humber from the east about 800 m north of Dundas Street, in Lambton Golf and Country Club, James Gardens occupies the opposite bank of the river.
    • Centreville Creek
    • East Humber - The East Humber flows from north of Toronto, meeting the main branch of the Humber in Woodbridge, just north of Highway 7. Its watershed extends east to Yonge Street and north to King City. Its source is Wilcox Lake and its wetlands east of Yonge Street and the village of Oak Ridges.
    • Emery Creek - Emery Creek flows from its source west of Finch Avenue and Weston Road, south to meet the main Humber 500 metres west of Weston Road, about 1 km south of Finch Avenue. It is about 2.4 km long.
    • Humber Creek - The Humber Creek runs south east, from its source near Islington Avenue and Dixon Road through residential areas, meeting the lower Humber from the west about 750 metres north of Eglinton Avenue. It is about 3.8 km long.
    • King Creek - King Creek is a tributary of the East Humber. It flows southerly from near Highway 27 and 16th Side Road to meet the East Humber south of King Road, east of Nobleton. The settlement of King Creek is located to the east of the confluence.
    • Purpleville Creek
    • Rainbow Creek
    • Salt Creek
    • Silver Creek - The Silver Creek runs south-westerly from its source about 300 metres west of Eglinton Avenue and Royal York Road, partly within a golf course, through residential areas to meet the lower Humber from the west about 1.2 km south of Eglinton Avenue. It is about 2 km long.
    • West Humber - The West Humber meets the main branch of the Humber east of Albion Road and about 800 metres west of Sheppard Avenue and Weston Road. The West Humber itself has several branches flowing from north-west of Toronto.

    Source: Toronto and Region Conservation Authority,[19] The Atlas of Canada.

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    Relevant Background: Vaughan (/vɑːn/ vawn) (2022 population 344,412)[2] is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located in the Regional Municipality of York, just north of Toronto. Vaughan was the fastest-growing municipality in Canada between 1996 and 2006 with its population increasing by 80.2% during this time period and having nearly doubled in population since 1991.[3] In 2021, the population of Vaughan was 323,103.[2] It is the fifth-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area, and the 17th-largest city in Canada...The city is made up of nearly a dozen historic communities. Likely as a result of the municipality being established when it was still largely a rural area with scattered settlements, most residents (and even non-residents) identify more with the larger communities than they do with the city as a whole and have greatly expanded their areas, and the City officially designates five in the urban area as major communities, with all of the built-up areas of the city considered as being within one of them. This includes corporations such as Bell Canada, which uses the original community rate centres and lists them separately in the phone book, resulting in local calling areas being different throughout the city.
Woodbridge: North/South - Major Mackenzie[22]/Steeles, East/West - Hwy 400/Hwy 50
Maple: North/South - King Vaughan Line/Rutherford, East/West - Bathurst/Hwy 400
Thornhill: North/South - Hwys. 7 and 407 (Major Mackenzie for the area west of Bathurst)/Steeles, East/West - Yonge/Dufferin
Concord: North/South - Rutherford/Steeles, East/West - Dufferin/Hwy 400
Kleinburg: North/South - King Vaughan Line/Major Mackenzie, East/West - Hwy 400/Hwy 50...The Vaughan Metropolitan Centre (VMC) is a 179-hectare (442 acre) city centre under development around the intersection of Highway 7 and Jane Street, at the site of the former hamlet of Edgeley.
When the Township of Vaughan officially became a town in 1971, it was made up four historic communities (Maple, Kleinburg, Thornhill and Woodbridge) large enough to have their own village or town centres. Vaughan committed to building a new business and commercial core distinct from all of them. This commitment became policy in 1998 when Official Plan Amendment 500 called for the Vaughan Corporate Centre, as it was then branded, to become a focal point for business activity and major commercial development.[23]

It is served by the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre subway station, which is the northwestern terminus of Line 1 Yonge–University of the Toronto subway system. It is also a major transit hub for York Region Transit (YRT), as well as Viva and Züm bus rapid transit services..

Sports
Vaughan is home to many amateur sports teams for a variety of sports, with an organization running a league for each of the four major sports. There are also rep and select levels of these sports where the Vaughan Rangers, Vaughan Panthers, and Vaughan Kings represent the city in youth hockey,[71][72] the Vaughan Vikings represent the city in baseball,[73] the Vaughan Rebels represent the city in football,[74] and the Vaughan Panthers represent the city in basketball.[75] Vaughan also has a high softball following, with the Vaughan Vikings and Woodbridge Warriors offering house league and rep opportunities, as well as and adult World Series Slo Pitch league.[76] The city also hosts the Vaughan Flames, a youth organization exclusively for woman's hockey.[77] The name also belonged to the former CWHL hockey team that folded in 2010. Additionally, the Vaughan Vipers formerly played in the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League. In 2012, the Vipers were decommissioned and withdrew from their league...

Within the Greater Toronto Area, Vaughan is the third-largest employment center, after Toronto and Mississauga. With a real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $20.6 billion in 2018, it is the largest contributor (35%) to York Region's economy.

In 2018, the city was home to 12,105 businesses employing more than 222,000 people. Between 2008 and 2018, Vaughan's average annual employment growth was 3.2% and its business growth was 2.9%, exceeding provincial and national rates.

Manufacturing continues to dominate the local economy, accounting for 22% of total employment, followed by Construction (13%), Retail Trade (12%), Wholesale Trade (10%) and Transportation and Warehousing (6%). Small businesses with fewer than 20 employees account for 81% of all business establishments.

In 2018, the Accommodation and Food Services industry accounted for $295 million of Vaughan's real gross domestic product. Vaughan currently has 12 hotels and four motels with a total of 1,845 rooms. Development applications have been submitted that have the potential to add another 1,200 rooms to current supply in the coming years. Major tourism operators include Canada's Wonderland, Vaughan Mills, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Kortright Centre for Conservation, LEGOLAND Discovery Centre, Reptilia, the mainstreet and village cores of Kleinburg, Thornhill, and Woodbridge.


Entrance to McMichael Gallery in Kleinburg
Construction activity, as measured by value of building permits, has exceeded the $1 billion mark in eight of the last ten years.

As of 2018, the largest employers in Vaughan are:

Canada's Wonderland
United Parcel Service (UPS) Canada
Canadian National Railway
KPMG
Bondfield Construction
Ganz
NPL Canada Ltd.
Condrain Company Ltd.
Ozz Electric
Rollstamp Manufacturing
Vaughan is home to 184 Canadian or regional headquarters, including:

Adidas Canada
GFL Environmental
Recipe Unlimited
St. Joseph Communications
Toys "R" Us
Yum! Brands
... " (Wikipedia)

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Relevant Material: "
Vaughan ranked ninth nationally by the value of industrial building permits and tenth by the value of commercial building permits at the end of the third quarter of 2024.
When looking at only Ontario, Vaughan ranked fifth by value of industrial building permits, and seventh by value of non-residential building permits over the same period.
The city’s non-residential permits totaled more than $643 million in permit value at the end of the third quarter after a significant increase of activity in the third quarter.
This quarter, the non-residential market had the slowest quarterly growth in construction costs since the fourth quarter of 2020.
The commercial market in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) recorded increased leasing volumes and shifts to model suites and smaller leasing footprints driven by transit access, amenities, and lease flexibility.
The industrial market in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) rebounded with positive absorption in the third quarter of 2024, with a slight shift in demand for more design-builds as a contributing factor.
Vaughan remains the largest industrial market in York Region, with more than 100 million square feet of industrial inventory.
As an economic indicator, building permit values measure current demand in both residential and non-residential real estate markets and estimate future performance of the construction industry. Building permit activity is one indicator of the strength of the local economy, as well as a predictor of population and employment growth.

By the end of the third quarter of 2024, Vaughan ranked ninth nationally by value of industrial building permits.
Vaughan’s industrial sector continues to thrive, reflecting its importance in the national development landscape. At the end of the third quarter of 2024, Vaughan ranked ninth nationally by value of industrial building permits.

Top Ten Canadian Industrial Markets by Value of Permits, Q1-Q3 2024:

Toronto
Windsor
Brampton
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Edmonton
Montréal
London
Vaughan
 Mississauga
Vaughan remains the largest industrial market in York Region with more than 100 million square feet of industrial inventory.
With more than 100 million square feet of industrial inventory, Vaughan has the largest industrial market in York Region. The city represented 61 per cent of the total industrial inventory in York Region at the end of the third quarter.." (Business Climate & Trends | Insight Categories | Vaughan Economic Development)

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Relevant Material: "Current Vaughan MLS® stats indicate an average house price of $1,185,715 and 742 new listings in the last 28 days. As of today, Vaughan housing data shows median days on market for a home is 30 days..." (Vaughan Housing Market Report | August 2025 Real Estate Trends & Stats | Zolo.ca)

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