Streetscape Improvement: Advance the Shoreline Commemoration project from Yonge to Parliament St. -- end markers

PB2025 - Advance the Shoreline Commemoration project from Yonge to Parliament St.

This idea proposes to install 2 descriptive heritage plaques at the 2 ends of Front Street at Front & Parliament Street and Front & Yonge Street, signifying the old shoreline. 

Transportation Services staff have reviewed this idea and estimate that the cost of each heritage asset is approximately $40,000 for materials and labour. That is a total of $80,000 for two. Complications may apply. 

Internal ID: PB2025-TS-HT-682

*Note: Ideas that proceed to the voting stage are edited by my office to ensure they are clear, concise, and complete with images. For accountability and transparency purposes, the original description, as input by the resident, can be found below.

Original Description:

Promote the visual identity of heritage and cultural assets of the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood and St. Lawrence HCD and elevate those of Indigenous provenance.

Continue the Commemoration of the location of the 1841 (Young’s) shoreline through the St. Lawrence neighbourhood.

Execute Phase I of the multi-element interpretation plan for anchor streets (Yonge, Parliament), and cross streets (including sidewalk, curb and/or roadway identification, as appropriate), open laneways by: producing and installing descriptive summary markers/plaques at neighbourhood boundaries -- Yonge St.; Parliament/Berkeley St; -- which describe the project and orient residents and visitors to the historical location of the shoreline of Lake Ontario.