Taddle Creek is a buried stream in

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, Canada that flowed a southeasterly course about six kilometres long, from St. Clair Avenue west of Bathurst Street through the present site of

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, through the

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near the

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. During the 19th century, it was buried and converted into an underground sewer, but traces of the creek can still be found today. The scenic footpath known as Philosopher's Walk follows the ravine created by the creek from the Royal Ontario Museum to Trinity College. ''Taddle Creek'' is also the name of a Toronto literary magazine and of a local

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school.

History

In the 1790s, the original town site of the

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was established along its south bank. Its waters would be used by its first industries. The disappearance of the creek came in phases in the 19th century: * east of Church Street - before 1860 * Elizabeth Street to Church Street - early 1866 * University of Toronto sections including McCaul's Pond - 1886 There is no exact origin for the creek's name but there are three possible theories: * named for the Tattle family of Toronto * named for the tadpoles that filled the creek * onomatopoeic link of an English northcountry dialect variant of ''toddle'' meaning "to move with a gentle sound, as a stream or river" Taddle Creek had other names during the 19th Century: * Little Don River * Brewery Creek - named for Enoch Turner's brewery * Goodwin Creek * University Creek * Wolz Creek - east of Jarvis after brewer Mr. Woltz

Taddle Creek Park

Taddle Creek Park is a small but busy park at the southwest corner of Lowther Avenue and Bedford Road, in

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area of Toronto. The park was created in 1976, on what had been the site of the home of Nobel laureate

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, and beside the home of Beatrice Worsley (the first female computer scientist in Canada). After extensive renovations, the park reopened in July 2011, with an avant-garde sculpture centrepiece by Ilan Sandler, created from of stainless steel rod, the approximate length of Taddle Creek.

References

External links

''Lost Rivers'' entry on Taddle Creek

''Taddle Creek'' magazine
{{Toronto Waterways Rivers of Toronto Subterranean rivers

History

Taddle Creek Park

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