Wendigo Creek

Wendigo Creek was a short watercourse in Toronto, Ontario, that drained into Grenadier Pond.^[1] It was spring fed, like nearby Spring Creek (Grenadier Pond). Its headwaters were north of Bloor Street, near Dundas Street and Laws Street.^[2]

Wendigo Creek

Tributaries joined the main channel at Clendenan Street and Glendonwynne Street, north of High Park.^[2]

The creek's steeply sloped ravine was 15 metres (49 ft) deep where it crossed Bloor, until that portion was filled in, in 1915.^[2] A conduit carried the creek under the embankment.

Currently, storm sewers empty into channelized open remnant of the creek, south of Bloor, in the north end of High Park.^[1]

Sediment washed down the creek, formed a sandbar, at the outlet of Grenadier Pond, sealing it off, as a separate pond.^[3]

A follower of John Harvey Kellogg, William McCormick, and his wife, both medical doctors, built a sanatorium at 32 Gothic Avenue, along the creek's banks, in 1905.^[4] The pair built "mineral baths", claiming the spring-fed creek had special health benefits. When the McCormicks shut down the sanatorium the mineral baths were turned into official city swimming pools.