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Portlands Biidaasige Park Expansion

Biidaasige Park opened an expansion in late July 2026 featuring 4 hectares of public space, which includes a launch point for canoes into the lake, a waterfront promenade facing the skyline, and a crane that symbolizes the area's industrial past.

The name Biidaasige means "sunlight shining towards us".

The Don River was once badly polluted but has been cleaned up with a $1.25 billion rehabilitation project that was announced in 2017.

The first section of the park further inland opened in July 2025.

To get here, take TTC bus 114 from Union Station, which runs along Queens Quay towards the Portlands.

"The Colony" is a bronze beaver lodge by Cree artist Kent Monkman. The beavers were important to the ecosystem in the area and symbolized colonialism on the continent. The indigenous people once traded beaver pelts to Europeans.

"First Sun" is an interpretation of the Egyptian god of the rising sun with a scarab beetle on the face.