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BY Shawn Micallef   July 23, 2008 12:07

Sharp-eyed owners of the 2000-2002 editions of MapArt’s Toronto publications may have noticed “Mount Garbage” marked in the middle of Etobicoke’s Centennial Park. An employee at Toronto-based MapArt grew up nearby and noted that “everybody in the area” calls “Centennial Hill” by this more honest, colloquial phrase. The hill, now complete with ski runs, is in fact full of garbage, as it was a former dump that was capped as part of Canada’s 1967 centennial project. In 2002, a humourless parks employee called MapArt to complain, and subsequent editions have reverted to the official but less locally aware moniker. 

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