University of Toronto – Queen’s Park

Date: Jan 15, 2025 at 10:00
Meeting Location: NE corner Bloor at Yonge

Leader: Richard Longley

Getting There: Yonge/Bloor TTC (check to see if running)

Walk Details: A 2.5 hrs, 8 km, linear heritage walk on mostly paved surfaces, fairly flat, no stairs. Walk ends at Queen-Yonge TTC.

Accessibility: No impediments to someone using a mobility device.

Washrooms: Along the way

Walk description: The One – Toronto’s tallest unfinished building (for sale), on the site of Stollery’s (demolished in 2015).

Victoria College (William George Storm’s finest specimen of Richardsonian Romanesque), St Michael’s College (with Dante Sculpture Garden by Timothy Schmaltz).

Queens Park, Ontario Legislature (Canada’s first Prime Minister imprisoned in a box, future tbd – suggestions?)

University of Toronto campus re-landscaped; recently restored Fitzgerald building; Stewart building, condemned to be condo-crushed.

University Avenue (facadism), Osgoode Hall, “new” City Hall with turtle sculpture in new First Nations Spirit Garden, “old” City Hall (future tbd) with satyrical sculptures; recently restored Philip Jamieson building.

WALK END Queen-Yonge TTC

Earlier dropouts at Museum, Queens Park, St Patrick, Osgoode TTC

What to Bring: Camera, munchies, water or hot flask

Other information: Wear clothing and footwear for weather of the day

Walk Leader’s Cell Number: (647) 354-5353

Outings Etiquette
Please follow our Naturalist’s Code of Ethics on outings to minimize our impact on nature. If you plan on taking photos, please read our pamphlet on Ethical Nature Photography Best Practices. Note: Dogs are not allowed on TFN outings, apart from leashed registered service dogs.

Cancellation Policy
An outing will be cancelled if there is a 70% or higher chance of thunderstorm or if other hazardous weather arises. See our full cancellation policy here.

Safety
Please dress for the weather. Bring water with you. Use bug spray and check for ticks when you get home. Do not attend an outing if you are feeling ill.

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.