Public Walk – University of Toronto 2

Date: Feb 20, 2026 at 10:00
Meeting Location: College-University NW corner

Join us on Friday, February 20th at 10:00 am for a 3-4 hour, 5-7 km linear heritage walk.

Leader: Richard Longley

Location: College, University. St George, (Bloor, Devonshire Pl)

Description: Route differs from previous University of Toronto walk 1. Alex Bozikovic, Architecture Critic, Globe & Mail says “The University of Toronto may have the best architecture in the city.” We will be exploring much of the best and most adventurous on College-St George-College-Bloor-Devonshire.

Optional end points: St George TTC Line 2 or continue to walk south to Devonshire for bus to Wellesley TTC Line 1

Details: A 3-4 hour, 5-7 km linear heritage walk along mostly paved, fairly flat surfaces. No stairs.

Getting There: TTC Line 1 Queens Park, College streetcar

Washrooms: Along the way

What to Bring: Munchies, water or hot chocolate, camera 

Other Information: Dress for the weather.

Eateries/washrooms: Rotman School of management, Bar Mercurio (Bloor/St George, for end of walk).

Optional dropouts or after walk:

  • Fisher Rare Book Library for “Arctic Fever: Image and Narrative in North Circumpolar Voyaging of the Long Nineteenth Century”
  • Bata Shoe Museum

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.