Etobicoke Creek is one of the many creeks running through Toronto, Ontario and the Toronto Area into Lake Ontario, often characterised by their winding paths through deep ravines and distinctive shale banks. A running stream. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Established: March 6, 1834 Area: East to West: 43 km North to South: 21 km629. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English (French has some legal status) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 106 24 Area Total  â€¢ Land  â€¢ Water    (% of total)  Ranked... The Greater Toronto Area (called the GTA by local residents) is the largest metropolitan area in Canada. ... Lake Ontario seen from near Wolcott, New York Lake Ontario (French: lac Ontario), bounded on the north by Ontario and on the south by Ontarios Niagara Peninsula and by New York State, is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. ... Grand Canyon, Arizona A canyon, or gorge, is a valley walled by cliffs. ... Shale Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. ...

Etobicoke Creek flows from Caledon, and runs in Brampton and west of the Toronto Pearson International Airport and the industrial area. Its southern section forms a city and county-level boundary, separating Toronto on the east from Mississauga, part of the Regional Municipality of Peel, on the west. Previously the eastern side was part of Etobicoke, which was part of Metropolitan Toronto. Caledon (2001 population 50,595) is a town in the Regional Municipality of Peel in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. ... Bramptons City Hall Brampton, Ontario is a city in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. ... Toronto Pearson International Airport, or Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International Airport (IATA: YYZ, ICAO: CYYZ), straddling Mississaugas northeastern boundary with neighbouring Toronto, is Canadas busiest airport and part of the National Airports System. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Pride in our past, Faith in our future Established: 1974 Area: 288. ... Motto: Working for you Area: 1,241. ... Etobicoke (pronounced ) is the western portion of the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that has a population of about 350,000. ... The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was the name of the highest level of municipal government in the Toronto, Ontario, Canada, area from 1954 to 1997. ...

The creek ends in a large recreational area, Marie Curtis Park. It is surrounded by big cliffs and the bottom is solid stone, often covered with smaller rocks. It is full of little fish and crayfish, a sign of purity of water. Families Astacoidea   Astacidae   Cambaridae Parastacoidea   Parastacidae Crayfish, sometimes called crawfish, are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are closely related. ...

Aircraft accidents

A section of Etobicoke Creek runs close to Toronto's Pearson International Airport, leaving a rugged ravine very close to the west ends of runways 24L and 24R. There have been two major runway overshoot incidents which have resulted aircraft crashing in the ravine. Toronto Pearson International Airport, or Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International Airport (IATA: YYZ, ICAO: CYYZ), straddling Mississaugas northeastern boundary with neighbouring Toronto, is Canadas busiest airport and part of the National Airports System. ... Aerial picture of a runway of Chennai International Airport, Tamil Nadu A runway is a strip of land on an airport, on which aircraft can take off and land. ... A go around, overshoot or missed approach is an aborted landing of an aircraft which is on final approach. ...

• On 26 June 1978, an Air Canada Douglas DC-9-32, Flight 189, with 107 people on board, overshot runway 24R and crashed into the ravine, destroying the aircraft and killing two of the passengers.

• On August 2 2005, an Air France Airbus A340-300, Flight 358, with 309 people on board, skidded off runway 24L into the ravine, and burst into flames. All people on board escaped safely but dozens were injured. One passenger, Roel Bramar, later commented, "We had a hell of a roller-coaster going down the ravine" [1].

The position of the ravine so close to the airport's overrun area has raised some safety concerns among the general public [2]. If the ravine in the path of the runway had been filled in with a culvert and passive safety equipment (such as a level, sand-filled arrestor bed), it is likely that both accidents would have been relatively uneventful, with minimal injury and damage to property. However, such work would probably be very expensive and might face opposition from environmentalists. It remains to be seen whether any landscaping changes will be made following the 2005 accident. Air Canada Boeing 767-300 (C-GGFJ) in current livery. ... The Douglas DC-9 is a twin-engined jet airliner, first manufactured in 1965 and, in much modified form and under a succession of different names, still in production today as the Boeing 717. ... Air Canada Flight 189 was an Air Canada flight from Ottawa to Vancouver via Toronto and Winnipeg. ... Air France Boeing 747 Air France (Compagnie Nationale Air France) is a subsidiary of Air France-KLM. Before the take-over of KLM, it was essentially the national airline of France, employing 71,654 people (at January 2005). ... Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340. ... Wikinews has news related to this article: All passengers survive Toronto plane crash Air France Flight 358 was a passenger flight originating from Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) Terminal 2F in Paris, France, arriving at Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) Terminal 3 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. ... A culvert is a flowing body of water which passes underneath a road, railway, or embankment, or the part thereof that does so. ...

Neighbourhoods

Markland Wood, which is bounded by Etobicoke Creek to the west and Elmcrest (tributary) Creek to the east. Markland Wood is a quiet, middle class neighbourhood located in Etobicoke (west Toronto), Ontario, Canada bounded by Etobicoke Creek to the west, Elmcrest (Renforth) Creek to the east and surrounded by the Markland Wood Country Club, golf coarse. ...

See also

• List of Ontario rivers

See also: Rivers in Canada Tributaries of Hudson Bay Rivers in Canada alphabetically Rivers of the Americas This is the list of rivers situated which flow through Ontario. ...

External links

• Etobicoke Creek shale banks
• Marie Curtis Park
• Markland Wood Country Club - Golf Course