page_title: The Queensway-Humber Bay
section_title: Post-war years
hierarchical_section_title: The Queensway-Humber Bay / History / Post-war years
caption_attribution_description: English: w:Ontario Food Terminal
context_page_description: The Queensway-Humber Bay, known officially as Stonegate-Queensway, is a neighbourhood in the south-west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the south-east of the former City of Etobicoke.
context_section_description: In 1952, Etobicoke left York County with the other municipalities south of Steeles Ave to join the new Metropolitan Toronto which began to urbanise the townships around Toronto like Etobicoke.  In 1946, the 'Queensway' post office opened and at the Queensway and Royal York a development of 'veterans houses' was built for returning servicemen.  In the 1950s, Toronto was expanding and Queen Street West was extended from the foot of Roncesvalles Avenue around the top of Humber Bay north of the Railway tracks complementing the Lake Shore to the south and linking with the former Stock's Side Road.  With the accession of Queen Elizabeth in 1952, this street was named The Queensway also to be consistent with Queen Street to the west and the Kingsway to the north.  Many immigrants arrived in the post-war years and the large northern parts of this neighbourhood were largely developed between Islington and the Mimico Creek where many new streets were laid out. North of The Queensway many apartments were built east of Stephen Drive.  With the development of residential to the north, the old heart of the community south of the Queensway between the Humber River and the Mimico Creek became industrial with the arrival of the Ontario Food Terminal north of the QEW and Christie's Factory to the south.  North of the Queensway the Golf Course became a sewage treatment plant.  The Palace Pier was lost to a fire set by arsonists.  In 1954, Hurricane Hazel devastated the Humber Valley and Humber Bay was one of the worst-hit areas, however because of the loss of so much of the residential area around the old Lake Shore/Queensway intersection, the damage was largely to city infrastructure notably destroying the Lake Shore and Royal York bridges over the Mimico Creek and damaging the Lake Shore Bridge over the Humber.
caption: The Ontario Food Terminal was opened in 1954 and serves as the main produce distribution centre for Toronto.
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