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Taddle Creek is a buried
In the 1790s, the original town site of the Town of York 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 John Wolz (or Walz)
''Lost Rivers'' entry on Taddle Creek
''Taddle Creek'' magazine
{{Toronto Waterways Rivers of Toronto Subterranean rivers
stream
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in Toronto
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, Ontario
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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 Wychwood Park, through the University of Toronto
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, into the Toronto Harbour
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near the Distillery District
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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
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to Trinity College. ''Taddle Creek'' is also the name of a Toronto literary magazine and of a local Montessori
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school.
History
In the 1790s, the original town site of the Town of York 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 John Wolz (or Walz)
See also
*List of rivers of Ontario
This is the list of rivers which are in and flow through Ontario. The watershed list includes tributaries as well.
Dee River, flows between Three Mile Lake and Lake Rosseau.
List of rivers arranged by watershed Hudson Bay
Atlantic Ocean
...
* ''Taddle Creek'' (magazine)
* Taddle Creek Park
* University of Toronto
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References
External links
''Lost Rivers'' entry on Taddle Creek
''Taddle Creek'' magazine
{{Toronto Waterways Rivers of Toronto Subterranean rivers