Public Walk – Russell Creek: A Lost River Walk

Date: May 8, 2025 at 10:00
Meeting Location: Bathurst Subway Station Line 2

Join us on Thursday, May 8th at 10:00 AM for a 2.5 hr, 5 km linear Lost Rivers walk on mostly paved surfaces, fairly flat, some stairs.

Leader: Linda McCaffrey

 

Walk Location: The Annex to Union Station

Getting There: Subway Line 2 or Bathurst Bus

Walk Details: A 2.5 hr, 5 km linear Lost Rivers walk on mostly paved surfaces, fairly flat, some stairs.

Accessibility: No impediments to someone using a mobility device

Washrooms: Along the way

Walk description: This creek is named for Peter Russell, soldier, gambler, slave owner and administrator of the newly created Colony of Upper Canada.

Encounter other historical persons and events including Amy Pompadour, a Russell family slave and her own family.

We will pass the site the York General Hospital and the Fever Sheds where many Famine Irish perished.

The creek struggles to survive. It can flood and tilt houses.

What to Bring: Dress for the weather

Other information: Walk ends at Union Station.

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.