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How did the Toronto Passage connect the Humber River to Georgian Bay?

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The Toronto Passage served as a vital trade route for First Nations peoples long before the arrival of Europeans. It functioned as a portage—a land route used to carry canoes and goods—that connected the mouth of the Humber River to Georgian Bay on Lake Huron.12

By utilizing this route, travelers could bypass the longer water journey around the Niagara Peninsula, providing a strategic shortcut between the Great Lakes and the region that would become Toronto.21