Toronto Lower Don Lands Redevelopment | ?m | ?s | Waterfront Toronto

[rdaner]

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[ben.thebean1]

Hard to believe the Keating Channel will look like this one day.

Absolutely drooling over this

 

[Northern Light]

This would seem a good moment to update everyone on the schedule for the months ahead, as per the agenda for the next WT FARM Ctte:

This one in particular will interest Mr. Flood It............who also goes by @hawc LOL

 

[hawc]

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The pond is full!

 

[mininamib]

Waasayishkodenayosh/Wonscotonach - the Anishinaabemowin name for the Don River. Sounds appropriate to me,

AoD

It is interesting seeing and hearing the names of places, objects, and animals which originate and were used going back centuries and millennia in a place where one lives - yet for the very first time.

 

[Traycer]

Here's a quick timelapse and some before-n-after photos, now that the river bed is filled up!

 

[afransen]

Waasayishkodenayosh/Wonscotonach - the Anishinaabemowin name for the Don River. Sounds appropriate to me,

AoD

That's a Don mouth-ful.

I think Wonscotonach would be appropriate--it is within the realm of English phonetics and has a hope of being remembered. Anglos would balk at Waasayishkodenayosh and call it something else/abbreviated.

 

[hawc]

 

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Great (and very photogenic) shots. Do you have any of the excavation at Villiers Street?

 

[hawc]

Great (and very photogenic) shots. Do you have any of the excavation at Villiers Street?

Thanks!

Flew over it but didn't photograph it. Nothing much to see. Looked same as last week, but covered in snow.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Chimney at that angle almost looks it could play a tune...

 

[DensityDan]

That's a Don mouth-ful.

I think Wonscotonach would be appropriate--it is within the realm of English phonetics and has a hope of being remembered. Anglos would balk at Waasayishkodenayosh and call it something else/abbreviated.

I'm very curious what the common pronunciation of Wonscotonach would settle on. This Global News article says its proper pronunciation is "waw-sco-taw-NAWSH". And this song backs that up, though the singing leaves pitch placement ambiguous when spoken.
But my initial read of it as a native Anglo is "wahn-skoh-TAH-natch" (last vowel like snatch, or possibly reduced to something like pitch). I could see lots of people being confused by the n's when the proper pronunciation doesn't seem to use nasal sounds, or by the ch on the end which is used more like it is in French.

 

[hawc]

 

[skycandy]

 

[Traycer]

Playground structures starting to go up? Might make for another nice timelapse video.

And a random sunrise photo from this morning: