A 1.2 to 1.5 billion-year-old granite rock has been unearthed in downtown Toronto during road construction.

Filmed today (July 26), the large granite rock is seen placed to the side of the street as roadworks continue in the background.

The Bloor Annex Business Improvement Area tweeted: "Great news! Our granite boulder will be incorporated into one of our new parkettes."

Professor Joseph Desloges from the University of Toronto thinks the rock likely travelled to Toronto after being lodged in an iceberg between 12-15,000 years ago.

A 1.2 to 1.5 billion year old granite rock has been unearthed in downtown Toronto at Bloor and Major street during road construction, this apparently was brought down here by the ice age a long time ago before iphones, condos and gentrification and Starbucks.

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Estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.5 billion years old a 2000 kg granite boulder has been unearthed at Major & Bloor streets during the construction of a new BIA sponsored parkette. (1/2)


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Jul 24

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U of T expert Professor Joseph Desloges says this rock likely traveled here from Georgian Bay lodged in an iceberg between 12-15,000 years ago when Lake Iroquois dominated the landscape. As the iceberg melted the rock fell approx 150 ft to the lake bed now called the Annex (2/2)


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5h5 hours ago

Great news! Our granite boulder will be incorporated into one of our new parkettes, at Howland & Bloor (pictured here, pre-boulder). Thank you to our partners @DTAHtoronto and @m_layton for their support. For more info on our parkettes please visit http://www.bloorannex.ca/revitalization (1/2)