East York: Don Valley Parkway near Beachwood Crescent
The landscape around East York is a wooded river valley carved by the Don River, which has shaped both the built environment and local life. The Don Valley Parkway follows this corridor through eastern Toronto, linking the Gardiner Expressway with Highway 401 and carrying traffic beside deep ravines and mature tree cover. Near Leaside Bridge, the route passes below the residential districts of Leaside and Thorncliffe Park. The parkway was built in stages during the early 1960s, as Toronto expanded its urban expressway network. East York remained an independent borough until its 1998 amalgamation into the present-day City of Toronto.
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