Public Walk – 70th Anniversary of Hurricane Hazel Flood

Date: Oct 12, 2024 at 10:00
Meeting Location: Old Mill Subway Station Entrance

Join us on Saturday, October 12th at 10:00 AM for a 3 hour, 3 km linear walk over mostly paved, flat surfaces with some gentle slopes.

70th Anniversary of Hurricane Hazel Flood – Public Walk

Leaders: Madeleine Mcdowell and Lance Gleich

Meeting Point: Old Mill Subway Station Entrance

Walk Details: A 3-hour, 3 km + linear walk over mostly paved, flat surfaces with some gentle slopes. There are stairs. The leader will be using a wheelchair. There will be a second pathway circumventing the steps at Bloor St. Bridge

Washrooms available at the end

Walk Description: With 1954 site photographs, we will explore the path of the 1954 flood in context with the recent 2024 flooding. We will also visit some First Nations and Settler sites as well as the Ontario 50th Anniversary Hazel Commemorative plaque and High Water marks from 1954. Letters and comments from people present along the River and their experiences in a “This was where you are” context. The salmon may be leaping at the weirs and possibly heron fishing in Canada’s only urban heritage river – the Humber. We end at the Historic Lambton House’ Wildflower specimen Garden (washrooms inside) where the #55 bus stops, to Jane or Runnymede subway stations.

You cannot believe that you are walking in the middle of an urban area of over 3 million. It is truly beautiful with a strong First Nations’ presence

What to bring: Water, snacks and perhaps a camera. There will be a cup of tea at the Lambton House.

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.