Red bridge in Toronto's new Port Lands district

Everyone Say Biidaasige: Toronto’s Marvellous Park Is Just the Beginning for a New Port Lands

The crowning jewel in a $1.4 billion revitalization, Biidaasige Park stretches along the Don River’s mouth, which has been rerouted to open up Toronto’s previously flood-prone Port Lands for residential development. A once-in-a generation undertaking, the resplendent green space is already in full use — by hikers, cyclists, kayakers and playground scramblers.

Words: Brian Banks
Photos: Vid Ingelevics and Ryan Walker
Posted: Aug 28, 2025
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Chris Glaisek seizes the long silver pump handle with his left hand and presses down. As he works the lever, water gushes from a short spout onto a narrow wooden table with raised sides and slots cut at both ends. “I think this is one of the tables that you tilt,” he says, touching one side as a test. “Yeah. So you can decide which way you want the water to run.” The water pours off, wetting the rough, pale red pavement at Glaisek’s feet, then trickles downslope into the first of a series of shallow, hand-sculpted concrete bowls tinted the same pale red in Toronto’s Biidaasige Park.

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