Your City's Original Shoreline

[J.OT13]

Many cities around the have altered their shorelines to "reclaim land" to expand development potential, build ports, industries, housing projects...

Although I could only find one thing demonstrating this in Ottawa, I've seen many other places with maps showing the added land mass over the years.

As an example, here is Manhattan:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...400-years.html

And Ottawa:

Bayview, the future transfer point between the Confederation and Trillium lines. We can see LeBreton Flats (over the "Ottawa River Parkway" text), the Domatar (Zibi development) on the left of LB Flats and downtown up top.

[The_Architect]

From the Toronto Archives:


http://www.blogto.com/city/2011/07/t...n_the_harbour/

Toronto actually actively filled in part of the harbour to create the Queen's Quay area:


Source: same as above

You can see the Harbour Commission Building in both pictures below, in the first one at the end of the pier, and in the second one in the centre of the image:




Sources: same as above

[SignalHillHiker]

A map of the area of the city destroyed by the Great Fire of 1846:



In this case, and again following the Great Fire of 1892, the rubble of the city was simply pushed into the harbour. It's added about a block worth of land to the west (left) side of the above map.

[MonkeyRonin]