Public Walk – St James Cemetery

Date: Aug 12, 2026 at 10:00
Meeting Location: St James's Cemetery

Join us on Wednesday, August 12th at 10:00 am for a 2-3-hour, 6 km circular nature and heritage walk along mostly paved surfaces with some gentle slopes. Some stairs.

Registration Required: Register on EventBrite

Leader: Richard Longley

Location: St James’s Cemetery, 635 Parliament St

Description: Explore Toronto’s oldest cemetery still in use. Find graves of some famous, and some infamous, Torontonians in a rich natural environment that is, in places, spooky. 

Meeting Spot: St James Cemetery Chapel

Getting There: 30 minute walk east from Wellesley station Line 1; or 10 minute walk west then south from Castle Frank station, Line 2; or 5 minute walk from either 65 Parliament St bus to St James Ave or 94 Wellesley to Parliament.

Washrooms: At the beginning and end

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.