May 9, 2011, Toronto, ON—People in wheelchairs can now easily access the sandy beach portion of Canada’s Sugar Beach.

Waterfront Toronto has added a new ramp and built a deck that is level with the sand. The hardwood ramp runs from the main pathway on the east side of the beach to a four square meter platform that features Muskoka chairs  and one of the park’s iconic pink umbrellas.

While the park was built to City of Toronto accessibility standards, Waterfront Toronto added the new platform to further enhance accessibility.

April 5, 2011, Toronto, ON – The Harlem Globetrotters brought their new 4-point shot to Canada’s Sugar Beach to promote the Toronto leg of their North American tour.

Globetrotters Flight Time Lang and Wun “The Shot” Versher took 4-point shots – over water – from the charter vessel River Gambler to a basketball hoop positioned on Canada’s Sugar Beach. A crowd of 100 local school children gathered around the hoop and cheered the players as they both succeeded in making 4-point shots.

Toronto, March 17, 2011 – Canada’s Sugar Beach and the Martin Goodman Trail improvements at Marilyn Bell Park have received Regional Awards of Excellence from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA).

The opening celebration will take place at the park site, located at the foot of Lower Jarvis Street south of Queens Quay Boulevard. See event invitation for further details.

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August 9, 2010, Toronto, ON— Two inviting and exciting public spaces officially opened today in part of Toronto’s downtown waterfront that was until now mostly derelict industrial land that few people had visited. Canada’s Sugar Beach and the Water’s Edge Promenade (phase one) are unique new urban spaces that have transformed a lakefront parking lot and underused area into waterfront attractions.

June 8, 2010, Toronto, ON— While the official opening of Canada’s Sugar Beach is not slated until August 9, Torontonians are already enjoying the park’s sandy beach, candy-striped rocks and water views.

Toronto, October 30, 2009 – Waterfront Toronto, together with the Governments of Canada and Ontario and the City of Toronto, officially broke ground today on Canada’s Sugar Beach, a new park that is transforming a surface parking lot in a former industrial area into Toronto’s second urban beach at the water’s edge.

The official groundbreaking event for the Canada's Sugar Beach.