Recently I've found two (1) (2) lost bridges of Jackson Creek. There is another quasi-government real estate magnate that tends to abandon its property, Toronto Hydro. Jackson Creek lucked out to have its former bed running through one of TH's inconspicuous residential substations.
Adjacent residential properties obviously fattened/ filled-in their lots. Since TH does not really enjoy or care about the quality of their backyards, it left the bed to the force of gravity to year-after-year flatten the ravine, erasing the millennia of water erosion by the living flowing water that got engineered away by the city.
When the creek flowed, it unearthed a glacier boulder that is now slowly sinking back into the grass, that the landscaper for TH evidently employs diligently mows. Also there stands a middle-aged willow that might have started its life as a waterside tree, as they tend to. It might just remember Jackson Creek flowing, even though most of us were denied that joy of an experience.
Above is an aerial photo of the area in 1969, when Jackson Creek flown and carried life through the area.
You may note that there is a point to the north of the neighbourhood where the creek was flowing parallel to the road for a bit. There, the course was filled, yet the sidewalk was never laid. At the spot where the creek dashed again towards the lake (south) the fence is leaning in the direction of the former flow.
Editor's note: this is me completing the backlog/ drafts of the project. Unfortunately, the owner of the idea retired this blog and soon enough we will be archiving this 'act local' neighbourhood project towards more abstract, inconsequential, academic, 'act global' movements that is normal for the people these days to get behind (like being a Global Warming believer and sharing/ subscribing what politicians/ celebrities say about it). If someone want to pick up on this thankless task, feel free to use/ re-purpose the contents of this blog.
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Correction: The location in the aerial photo is off by one house. In the correction the area with the missing sidewalk is in orange. Jan 2017
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