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Ontario
Toronto, Canada
Humber Bay Park shore, old-dump beach glass
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Sea glass
Sea pottery
MarblesAlso reported: bottle stoppers.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Toronto has 141 former dump sites and much filled shoreline; a century of pre-recycling glass now tumbles out on the lakeshore parks.
Spacing Toronto (Amy Lavender Harris, 2019/2020) opens at Humber Bay Park and names Kew, Cherry and Sunnyside beaches, Colonel Samuel Smith Park and Ward's Island as beach glass sites, with crocks, insulator parts, marbles and stoppersView source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Slippery armour stoneCold water, sharp glass
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