Ashbridge's Bay

The boardwalk runs 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from Ashbridges Bay in the west to the R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant in the east along Lake Ontario.

The bay is named for Sarah Ashbridge, a British loyalist from Philadelphia whose family once lived nearby on a farm.

[1] The Ashbridges Bay Reclamation Scheme was the largest engineering project in North America at that time,[1] filling in an area from Cherry Street to Leslie Street to create the Port Lands Industrial District and building the Ashbridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant.

When it was completed in the 1920s, only a fragment of the original Ashbridges Bay remained, and the mouth of the Don River had been dramatically altered,[1] instead flowing through the Keating Channel.

The current bay is surrounded by marinas, the treatment plant, and a small tree-lined section along Lake Shore Boulevard East such that the original natural shoreline has disappeared completely.