Ontario Municipal Photography

Plants are used to stabilize a steep slope created by a switchback for a mixed use path in a Toronto ravine.

A graffitied map at a "station" on the York Beltline Trail in Toronto.

Rebuilding a natural watercourse and adding plantings of native saplings in the Brickworks Valley park in Toronto.

Protected bike lanes on Yonge Street north of St Claire Avenue, backing onto a cemetery.

A recently constructed townhouse development in North York, next to Downsview Park.

Downsview Park in Toronto, Ontario.

North York, Toronto has a mix of housing types but is predominantly detached homes. Most housing in this area was built in the decades after the Second World War.

A regional passenger train runs north on the Barrie Subdivision rail line next to Downsview Park and formerly industrial lands.

Trees and scrub grass grow on the site of a former industrial silo in Kingston, Ontario.

A mill repurposed into housing in Brant County, Ontario. The tributary river has abandoned canal infrastructure and one side has been converted into a park and walking trails.

Houses abut a tributary of the Grand River in Brant County, Ontario, with elevated water levels from the spring runoff.

Abandoned canal infrastructure along the Holland River by Newmarket, Ontario.

A storm drain empties into a marsh along the Holland River in Newmarket.

The Barrie Subdivision rail line runs north of Newmarket next to fields. In the coming years this line will be double tracked and electrified to increase service frequency and speed.

The Barrie Subdivision rail line runs by the Holland River in Newmarket. In the early 20th century the local government began, then abandoned, a project to canalize the Holland River, running between Lake Ontario and Lake Simcoe.

A regional rail station in York Region.

Looking south over the Barrie Subdivision rail line, near Newmarket. In the coming years, this section will be double tracked and electrified to permit more frequent service.