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521: 455: 53: 408:. The sewer has two sections: one starts at Lawrence Avenue and follows the old Burke Brooke, and the other starts at Douglass Avenue and Bathurst Street. The North Toronto Storm Trunk Sewer was a Metropolitan Toronto project installed during the 1960s and 70s. Like other sewers build at that time, it was intended to help reduce sewage along the planned route for the 412:. It was also intended to allow particle sewage separation in suburban boroughs served by smaller sewage plants and to open up more land for development. The sewer also links to the North York Storm Trunk Sewer by Douglass Avenue and Bathurst Street. The North Toronto Storm Trunk Sewer meets the Burke Brooke where it starts near Glenview Senior Public School 60: 438:
then headed to the point where it met the McDougall Stream, then it continued to the east side of Yonge Street to meet the Burke Brook near Yonge Street and Saint Edmunds Drive. The McDougall stream started just north of the Blythwood Stream and curved north and west to where it met the Lawrence Park Stream.
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Havergal Stream runs entirely through the property of Havergal College girls' school. The start of the stream is fed by local sewers and nearby springs. The Havergal Stream then proceeds to meet the North Toronto Storm Trunk Sewer at the edge of the school property. The water of the stream flows into
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Lawrence Park Stream merged with the McDougall Stream by the Locke Library between Lawrence and Lympstone. The length of the Lawrence Park stream was 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) and the McDougall Stream was 1 kilometre (0.62 mi). The Lawrence Park Stream started by Wilson Avenue and Avenue Road,
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Havergal Stream used to start under the intersection of Old Orchard Grove and Barse Street by the Baycrest Hospital. The length of the river was 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi). The river left its source and proceeded in a south-south-east direction to the current grounds of Havergal College, where
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Blythwood Ravine Park is a ravine between Alexander Muir Memorial Gardens and Blythwood Road. It also has entrances and the end of Strathgowan Avenue and Glengowan Road. The park is quite skinny and acts as a connector park between Sherwood park and Alexander Muir Memorial Gardens/ Yonge Street.
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Blythwood Stream, which started by Glengowan Road and Strathgowan and also at Saint Leonards Avenue and Saint Ives Avenue. It is the closest tributary to the Don River. The two section merged at Strathgowan Road and Fidelia Avenue. The stream followed a course running just east of Blythdale Road
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This park is between Blythwood Ravine Park and Yonge Street. It contains the tennis courts of the Lawrence Park Tennis Club and the fields of the Lawrence Park Lawn Bowling and Croquet Club. The main attraction of the park is the song The Maple Leaf Forever, a patriotic song about Canada, by
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Alexander Muir, printed on a stone wall with stairs connected to the fields and gardens of the park. The park was originally located on the west side of Yonge Street across from the Mount Pleasant Cemetery to celebrate the Toronto centennial celebrations. To build the
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Duplex Parkette is located between Yonge Street and Duplex Avenue south of Chatsworth Drive. Burke Brooke runs in underground pipes through the entirety of the park. Just south of Duplex Parkette is Glenview Parkette. A small part consisting of two small
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Sherwood Park is a park in Toronto. It contains a city maintenance building, a water park, a playground, and washrooms. It contains 2 paths to the left and right of the Burke Brook. It contains a dog-off-leash park to the south-east north of the
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from the west. It is home to the Sunnybrook Stables, dog parks, and many sport fields. There are also many bike and walking paths, with a few car-accessible roads scattered throughout. The park is also known for its cricket.
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The Burke Brook Ravine is a ravine that stretches from Sunnybrook Park to Bayview Avenue. The ravine has no official trail connection to Bayview Avenue but is accessible from Bayview Avenue by steeply sloping paths.
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Chatsworth is a ravine between Duplex Avenue and Glenview Senior Public School with a path running to Cheritan Avenue. It has a bridge in the middle moving the path from south of the river to north of the river.
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Sunnydene Park is a small park just to the east of Sherwood Park, to the west of Bayview Avenue. The park is near Sherwood Park and maps include it as part of Sherwood Park
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nowadays it pops ups from the ground. The stream then went to where the current North Toronto Storm Trunk Sewer is and then met the Burke Brook a little east of there.
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and west of Sunnydene Park. To the north of the park is Blythwood Road and the Blythwood Ravine. A road leads west out of the park to Sherwood Avenue.
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paid over $ 100,000 to move the park, including the stone wall, to its current location in Lawrence Park.
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almost parallel until it met Burke Brook. The length of the stream was around 1 kilometre (0.62 mi).
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Duplex Avenue - No traffic lights (Glenview Avenue has closest pedestrian crossings (stop sign))
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The Burke Brook used to have a total of 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) of tributary streams.
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The wall with the song Maple Leaf Forever on it at Alexander Muir Memorial Gardens
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the North Toronto Storm Trunk Sewer, where the sewer meets the Burke Brook.
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Sunnybrook Park is a major park in Toronto that connects to the
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Burke's Brook

Burke Brook is located in Toronto
Canada
Ontario
Greater Toronto Area
Toronto
Glenview Senior Public School
Canada
43°43′14″N 79°24′29″W / 43.720583°N 79.408013°W / 43.720583; -79.408013
Mouth
Don River
Canada
43°43′14″N 79°21′56″W / 43.720586°N 79.365653°W / 43.720586; -79.365653
River system
Don River
Toronto
Ontario
Don River
Lake Ontario
Glenview Senior Public School
Downsview Airport
West Don River
storm sewer
North York
Toronto
Ontario
Spadina Expressway

Sunnybrook Park

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