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Last April, CBC News ran an interactive, map-rich story about buried waterways in Canada\u2019s large cities<\/a>\u2014buried largely for sanitary reasons\u2014and initiatives to restore old and forgotten creeks and rivers to the surface. Focuses on Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, but there are links to other cities at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last April, CBC News ran an interactive, map-rich story about buried waterways in Canada\u2019s large cities\u2014buried largely for sanitary reasons\u2014and initiatives to restore old and forgotten creeks and rivers to the surface. Focuses on Toronto,… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1256],"tags":[131,54,834,621,590,435],"class_list":["post-1835787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-hydrology","tag-canada","tag-cities","tag-montreal","tag-rivers","tag-toronto","tag-vancouver","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1806580,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/apples-detailed-city-maps-come-to-canada\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835787,"position":0},"title":"Apple’s Detailed City Maps Come to Canada","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 March 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Apple Maps\u2019s detailed three-dimensional city maps, which launched in a limited number of cities with the release of iOS 15, have now come to three Canadian cities: Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. 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