Why Nobody Remembers Toronto's Own Riviera

They buried Toronto's beach under 8 lanes of highway. For over thirty years, Sunnyside was Toronto's free waterfront playground — a Beaux-Arts bathing pavilion, a roller coaster, and the Palais Royale dance hall that hosted Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Then came the fires of 1955, a highway route already funded and chosen before the smoke cleared, and the Gardiner Expressway that buried it for good. Keywords: Sunnyside Amusement Park, Toronto history, Gardiner Expressway, abandoned amusement parks, Palais Royale, Lake Ontario, Toronto Harbour Commission, Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion, Frederick Gardiner, lost amusement parks, rise and fall documentary, Ontario Canada history, Marilyn Bell, ghost amusement parks #Sunnyside #TorontoHistory #GardinerExpressway #AbandonedAmusementParks #LostAttractions #RiseAndFall