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Photo of the Day

October 10, 2003

 

Photo: Center Island Park

Center Island Park, Canada, 1963

Photograph by Winfield Parks

"Burgeoning Toronto, Ontario's capital, thrusts a changing skyline above Lake Ontario. Nearly two million Canadians crowd the city's streets and push out into the suburbs. Escaping the heat, youngsters play offshore at Toronto's Center Island Park."

—From "Canada's Dynamic Heartland: Ontario," National Geographic magazine, July 1963

 

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