Thursday, December 1, 2016

Traveling the Lakeshore East before the whole Rouge to Pickering beach revamp

This is how I remember the LSE being like before the big push to tear down the houses near Rouge Hill GO and claw back the cliffs to put in a trail. It was the mid 90s and I'd travel to Whitby to visit my boyfriend at the time. I used to marvel how close to the water's edge the tracks were.


This is a painting, done in 1969 by Ontario Transport artist, Moma Markovich. Markovich painted many Ontario infrastructure projects. Some of her collection is available on Twitter and the rest can be explored online using the Archives of Ontario digital collection.

6 comments:

  1. Tal HartsfeldDecember 1, 2016 at 10:05 AM

    Would the tracks ever get flooded out during long periods of heavy non-stop rain?

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  2. C.J. SmithDecember 1, 2016 at 10:08 AM

    Hi Tal
    No, I don't believe so since it was never low lying. But there are tracks that run alongside the Don River in Toronto that do flood.

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  3. JulesDecember 2, 2016 at 3:36 PM

    I remember those days, grew up in the Rouge and really miss it. Now it is so developed and busy it's crazy.

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  4. MarymaryDecember 3, 2016 at 9:44 AM

    I would actually like a print! Perhaps contacting the Archives would be the thing to do?

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  5. CJ SmithDecember 3, 2016 at 12:02 PM

    Yes you can order through the website

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  6. MGDecember 15, 2016 at 8:56 AM

    wow I had no idea. how pretty.

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