Once a lifeless hydro corridor, the Meadoway is buzzing

Lisa Turnbull and I have been in the ravine below Scarborough’s Botany Hill Park for less than two minutes when a trio of white-tailed deer scamper across a clearing to our right. They’re so close, I see that one of them is just out of fawnhood.

“We always see deer down in here,” Ms. Turnbull says with a big smile. “I feel like it’s such a peaceful area, it almost feels like you’re just transported out of the city. Yet, there you’ve got the hospital and you’ve got Ellesmere [Road].”