 With the decline in use of Toronto harbour as a shipping centre in the 1980s and redevelopment of the waterfront, the future of the silos was set.The Federal government expropriated the Maple Leaf complex in 1972 as part of the Harbourfront scheme.Unlike the Victory Soya Mills Silos and the Canada Malting Silos, which were designated heritage structures, the Maple Leaf Silos were demolished in the 1983 in the haste to remove the industrial eyesore and blight along the waterfront.