Talk:Toronto Islands

message: Bruce Cockburn's 1971 album High Winds White Sky features a cover photo of Bruce on Ward's Island after a snow storm in the winter of 1970/1971. Due to the amount of quite interesting trivia on this page I think it fitting that the Bruce Cockburn album cover be included - but understand the need to distance the page from coming off as an advertsing link. Any suggestion as to how the photo can be linked without violation of copyrights and without becoming just an advertising link? 
:I don't think we can include it, not for the reasons you describe, but because album covers are copyrighted.  We use them as fair use images sometimes, but fair use law in the US only applies to direct commentary on the work of art, as far as I can understand.  That is, we could use it on a page about the album, but it would be inappropriate to use it on a page about the Toronto Islands.  moink 23:48, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Album photo

message: I removed it last month, but it's been re-added.  I reverted it, since I'm quite sure there's no commuter flight service out of Toronto Island Airport (Toronto City Centre Airport), but I wanted to put this here so future editors know: there really isn't any. - 66.92.73.52 22:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  commuter flights out of YTZ airport 

message: The article is quite crowded, as everyone and their uncle has added their own snapshots of the Toronto Islands to the article.  I will pick out the best ones, move the others over to the Commons, and insert a link to the Toronto Islands Commons gallery.  The article will look better, and readers will be able to view a larger selection of images.  Skeezix1000 14:25, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent work! Atrian 14:59, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Images

message: The article defines Centre Island with the following:
:The largest, outermost island, commonly called Centre Island, is crescent-shaped and forms the shoreline of both the Eastern and Western Channels. ... What is commonly called Ward's Island is actually the eastern end of Centre Island.
So according to WP, Centre Island is the outermost of the islands, which effectively shelters the harbour and all the other islands. However many maps mark Centre Island as a smaller island to the north of that, the island on which the Toronto->Centre Island ferry docks, and leave the much bigger outer island un-named.
See the following for example of maps that think Centre Island is the more northerly island:
*Google Maps
*MapQuest
On the other hand the following map seems to agree with WP:
*TopoZone NRCan 1:5000
Can anybody clarify? -- Chris j wood (talk) 15:21, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Trick Question: Which is Centre Island?

message: I've taken out the line about Hurricane Hazel altering Island topography, since, as far as I can tell, it didn't.  Consulting Gibson's book on the Island, a comparison of the community's June 13, 1953 map (p. 238) with the city's official May, 1955 map (p.246) shows no significant changes (the hurricane came through on October 15, 1954).  Gibson comments that the Island was less affected by the hurricane than other parts of the city (p. 243). 
Driftglass (talk) 09:08, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hurricane Hazel 

message: This article states there is no public access between airport and the rest of islands. This has been questioned in a discussion on Talk:Toronto Island ferry services. If you can contribute, please do so there. -- Chris j wood (talk) 09:05, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As that discussion noted, the access in question is limited to TTC bus runs when the inner harbor freezes over in cold weather. This allows island residents to "catch a bus" when the main ferries cannot run. The bus then runs across the airport lands to the airport ferry, which can be kept ice-free. Under other circumstances the route is closed, and I would suspect that the bus does not stop within the airport when it is in use. Maury Markowitz (talk) 18:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I am extremely skeptical that busses have run across the frozen harbour in recent decades.  The harbour does freeze over.  It froze over several times last winter -- was frozen for several weeks around Christmas.  But ice has to be over a foot thick to support the weight of heavy trucks -- or busses.  Was there a time when the harbour was frozen long enough for the ice to get that thick?  Possibly.  But I would be extremely surprised if the Weather was that cold, for that long, anytime in the last four decades.  Geo Swan (talk) 16:12, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: To the best of my knowledge busses don't run over the frozen over harbour and have never done so.  When the regular (Wards, Centre, Hanlin's) ferry's aren't able to run because of the ice a bus is run across the island to the airport ferry dock.  As far as I know this is the only public access between the airport and the rest of the island.  Otherwise, if someone was at the airport fence on the same side as the Hanlin's Point ferry dock the only way to the other side of that fence is to go back to the city and board the airport ferry at the foot of Bathurst St.  kev. (talk) 15:11, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Public access between airport and the rest of islands 

message: I've copy edited the section on roads to clarify and/or remove some inconsistencies. It is motor vehicles that are limited, not all vehicles, as bikes are welcome. And a single lane road has one lane used (with care) in both directions, not one lane per direction. But the article is still left with the statement:
:The use of motor vehicles is limited to service vehicles and island residents.
I'm not sure that island residents are allowed unlimited use of motor vehicles. Can anybody provide a source for this? -- Chris j wood (talk) 12:32, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact, I've just noticed this statement is flat contradicted by the article lede (largest car-free community, etc), text that has been present and uncontested for some time. So I've removed the 'and island residents'. -- Chris j wood (talk) 12:45, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The use of motor vehicles is limited to service vehicles and island residents 

message: Strange that the article offers no historic photo of Centre Island, with its "main drag" of hotels and shops & its many stately mansions.  Yet there are historic photos of both Hanlans and Wards. ???--dunnhaupt (talk) 22:33, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Centre Island 

message: How is it that we can have an entire section on the city bulldozing homes on the island without ever mentioning the word "squatter"? Yes, you could argue that the current residents "purchased" their homes from the original squatters and presumably that is why they were eventually offered 99 year land leases. It's disingenuous to not mention that it all began with people building homes and/or cottages on land that they didn't own. Some people received something for nothing at the expense of the public purse.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.58.121.112 (talk) 14:15, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I see no particular need for that word with its negative connotations. The information in the article conveys the origins of the community: people pitching tents on government property. It also states that the government accepted this action and accommodated it with urban planning. A neighbourhood thus developed over time. It hardly seems like an injustice to the public interest; it's simply an alternate history to the usual narratives of neighbourhood development in Toronto. A.Roz (talk) 23:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Squatters

message: The map should be updated with the current name of the airport.  Also, the Eastern Gap and Western Gap should be labeled. --174.89.49.204 (talk) 20:45, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map improvements