Public Walk – Annual Hurricane Hazel Commemoration

Date: Oct 18, 2025 at 10:00
Meeting Location: Old Mill Subway Station Entrance

Join us on Saturday, October 18th at 10:00 am for the Annual Hurricane Hazel Commemoration walk.

This walk, dealing with Hazel’s 71 year old legacy, will visit the Humber River and sites related to the 1954 Hazel Flood disaster, combining both recollections and 1954 photos of the sites. Salmon may be leaping. The walk ends at the Lambton House — a Search and Rescue site in 1954, where there will be a cup of tea and maybe a related exhibit. The #55 Warren Park bus returning to Jane Subway Station stops there.

Co-leaders: Madeleine McDowell and Lance Gleich

Location: Humber Valley

Details: A 3-hour, 3+ km linear nature and heritage walk on mostly unpaved but even surfaces with some gentle slopes. Some stairs.

Getting There: TTC

Accessibility: The stairs into the Ravine at Bloor St. can be circumvented by streets. The leader will be using a wheelchair.

Washrooms: Along the way and at the end

What to Bring: Camera, binoculars, possibly snacks

Other Information: The leader will be using a wheelchair (and some gumption).

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.