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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Two papal visits, a Rolling Stones mega-concert for half a million people, and the aircraft plant that built Canada's warplanes - few parks carry a resume like this. Downsview Park at 35 Carl Hall Road in north Toronto occupies the former Canadian Forces Base Downsview, land that de Havilland Canada bought as farmland in 1929 to build aircraft beside its own airfield. The RCAF expanded the site through the Second World War and after; the base formally closed on 1 April 1996, and in 1999 the fede...