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THE TORONTO DAILY. STAR, , SATURDAY, ITANUARY 29, 1927 /fj/y Ashbridge's Bay as it Used to Be and as it is To-day / f V Described by early historians and naturalists as a pleasant natural , marsh in which patches of wild hay and clear lagoons alternated, Ash-I bridge's Bay, now known as the East-: ern Harbor Terminals, was for a long ' time a problem to the cily. The idea | of reclaiming it seems to have oo-I curred to very early visitors to the | district, the Provincial Gazeteer of I 1799 'iing the step as a means of providing fertile meadows. The name came from the Ashbridge family, which first came here about 135 years ago. From time to time during the nineteenth century, proposals were made to dispose of it and check the unhealthiness that was suspected to arise from its effluvia. More than once the city was on the point of disposing of the property to private in-but each time seeing citizen was able to prevent the deal. Ashbridge's Bay, past, present, and future, is indicated in the layout above. At the LOWER LEFT is seen the reproduction of an old map drawn by W. Chewett, senior surveyor and draftsman, late in 1801 or early in 1802, to be presented to the Hon. David William Smith, who owned over 600 acres of land on what is now the site of Toronto. At that, time an isthmus connected the present Island with the mainland, and Lady Simcoe describes in her 1793 diary an interesting ride along the peninsula. At the UPPER LEFT and UPPER RIGHT are shown two typical scenes in the same region to-day, depicting the vast changes since those early days. The LOWER LEFT picture is a plan of Eastern Harbor Terminals as ultimately projected by the present harbor com- mission, showing the extent of the r< clamation, the 400 foot ship chanm and the 1,000 foot turning basin. Th latest proposals are the substitution of groynes for a sea. wall along th south side of the district, and th building of a traffic bridge over tli ship channel so as to make the factor sites south of the channel readil industrial