Humber River
River in Ontario, CanadaWikipedia
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Sep 29, 2026
Ron SchlegelGUEST
We're Riverside Glen.
Ron SchlegelGUEST
Or in Etobicoke, we're Humber Heights because it's right beside the Humber River.
Ron SchlegelGUEST
And it's the highest point along the river where the hurricane caused all kinds of flooding.
Ron SchlegelGUEST
Hazel, yeah.
Ron SchlegelGUEST
Yeah, a lot of that was celebrated at this school, which we took and kept the basing walls for the heritage.
Ron SchlegelGUEST
and kept the story alive of what happened back at Hurricane Hazel.
Ron SchlegelGUEST
The school was used as the refuge place, and people were dying in these floods along the Humber River, and they were taken up to this school at the high point to save their lives.
Ron SchlegelGUEST
Now it's the seniors' village, a place of refuge and life and strength.
MarlonHOST
Water
Chloe BrownGUEST
... for cooling, so what's closest to us is the Humber River.
Chloe BrownGUEST
We also have this issue with electricity.
MarlonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Janice GoldingCORRESPONDENT
Firefighters quickly knocked the fire down, only to find a body inside the vehicle.
Janice GoldingCORRESPONDENT
An hour and a half later, a caller reported a similar fire at James Gardens Park, near the Humber River at Edenbridge in Royal York, about a 40-minute drive away.
Janice GoldingCORRESPONDENT
The 911 caller indicated they'd seen smoke coming from the park and heard what sounded like an explosion.
Janice GoldingCORRESPONDENT
When first responders arrived on scene, they found a white SUV in a parking lot, which was completely ablaze.
PaulHOST
It's just kind of at the base of Lake Ontario by a river, not easiest to defend.
PaulHOST
And again, he's a military guy, right? So the first thing he's going to notice is, okay, well, if we get invaded they can just go right across the river and just take a place like kingston or cut off our supply lines from behind so he's already starting to look all right where do we go next here what's a little bit more upriver and also at this point too he's building these really good connections with the indigenous and one of the things that the indigenous do is they know the land very well and they've been trading up and down the humber river for years
RichieHOST
or generations
PaulHOST
It's clearly a very key point in terms of trade.
PaulHOST
The land is good.
PaulHOST
And if you look at today, the Humber River goes right through Toronto, kind of on the western edge.
PaulHOST
A few other things that are going to come into play here, but he's really starting to realize that there needs to be a better place in the area of what will become Toronto.
PaulHOST
It's kind of the choice that he's going to make.
StanAUDIENCE
I'm not supportive of that.
StanAUDIENCE
If I take an example, when I'm coming across Humber River on a bridge and I start going up the hill, going eastbound on Blue West, Traffic is so badly backed up in the morning that all I can smell is the fumes from the cars that the lineup stretches for a couple of kilometers.
StanAUDIENCE
Yeah.
StanAUDIENCE
Talking about lineup of cars going eastbound from Jane Street down the hill and across the bridge.
Gurdeep AhluwaliaHOST
this.
Gurdeep AhluwaliaHOST
81 people actually died when the Humber River overflowed.
Gurdeep AhluwaliaHOST
Homes got swept away.
Gurdeep AhluwaliaHOST
This one caused $125 million in property damage, which is a huge figure for 1954.