Hurricane Hazel

Photo by Alan L Brown - May 8, 2005

Plaque Location

The City of Toronto
On the left side of the roadway almost directly under the Bloor Subway line in Kings Mill Park (Humber River) south of Old Mill Road

Plaque Text

On October 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel hit southern Ontario with 110 km/h winds and over 200 mm of rain. Many river, including the Humber, Don and Rouge overflowed flooding communities in much of southern Ontario. The storm killed 81 people, left 1868 families homeless, and caused extensive property damage. International and local donations to a flood relief fund assisted victims, and all three levels of government shared the expenses of paying for property damage and removing houses located in floodplains. Hurricane Hazel's legacy was the development of a sophisticated weather warning system for the province, measures to conserve the watersheds of major rivers, and a continually evolving system of flood warning and control.

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Related page from my torontohistory.org website:
Hurricane Hazel

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