Public Walk – Annual Aggie’s Wildflower Walk

Date: May 11, 2025 at 13:00
Meeting Location: Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas St

Join us on Sunday, May 11th at 1:00 PM for a 3 hr, 4+ km circular heritage and wildflowers walk on mostly unpaved but even surfaces, flat with some gentle slopes. Some stairs.

Co-Leader: Madeleine Mcdowell and Lance Gleich

Meeting Point:  Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas St

Walk Location: Humber Valley, Magwood Park

Getting There: TTC, The #55 Warren Park bus from Jane Stn. stops at the door.

Walk Details: A 3 hr, 4+ km circular heritage and wildflowers walk on mostly unpaved but even surfaces, flat with some gentle slopes. Some stairs.

Accessibility: The Leader will be using a manual wheelchair.

Washrooms: At the beginning and at the end.

Walk description: This Mothers’ Day Walk is an Annual joint outing with Heritage York, since 1998 and is based on the 1868 illustrations by Agnes Moodie Fitzgibbon in Canadian Wildflowers and includes the TFN supported Specimen Wildflower Garden at Lambton House. The walk will be on City streets, along the foot of the Humber Ravine, through the woods to see Trilliums and out to the River. Then back to the Lambton House for Tea.

What to Bring: cameras, binoculars

Other information: There will be a Heritage talk at the beginning and Tea will be served at the end. It will focus in part on Women Botanists in 19th century Canada.

This walk is only one of more than 140 that TFN will host this year alone! TFN members enjoy a complete listing of walks in our newsletter. Not a member? Learn more about the benefits of membership now!

Please tag any photos you take on this walk with #TFNWalk so that we can all live vicariously through your lens.

Toronto Field Naturalists wishes to acknowledge this Land through which we walk. For thousands of years, the Land has been shared by the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe. Toronto is situated on the Land within the Toronto Purchase, Treaty 13, the traditional and treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is also part of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum, a covenant agreement between Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Wendat peoples and allied nations to peaceably share the land and all its resources. Today, the Land is home to peoples of numerous nations. We are all grateful to have the opportunity to continue to care for and share the beauty of this Land.