On February 4, 2018, heritage tree advocates Edith George and Peter Wynnyczuk delivered their popular lecture What makes a Heritage Tree? The Case of Toronto’s Red Oak to TFN members (see page 6 of our March 2018 newsletter). At the heart of this talk was an amazing 250-year-old heritage tree located on Coral Gable Dr. Read More
Very reluctantly, the leaders of the TFN Juniors program cancelled the TFN Juniors Birding outing to Humber Bay park, yesterday, December 14th. The persistent rainfall made our planned activities including the birding itself impossible. Although disappointing, we hope this didn’t inconvenience any of you too greatly. The good news is that the Arctic nesting ducks will still Read More
Please join the TFN Junior Naturalists this Saturday Dec 14th and welcome our over-wintering Arctic Ducks at Humber Bay Park East! How many can you tick off on your checklist? What great stories our ducks tell — maybe we’ll try a little drama! Open to people ages 6-14 accompanied by a parent. Meet in the Read More
“As members of this club we now commence a new season of fellowship in meeting and field trip. At the recent meeting of your executive committee it was decided unanimously that it would be unwise to cease our activities because of the unhappy struggle into which we are now plunged. Now is the time, if Read More
Thanks to everyone who joined us for a lovely outing to the Doris McCarthy Trail. Vannessa brought her Dad’s wonderful fossils, collected from all over Ontario. A special thanks to Geologist Ed Freeman, who explained that these creatures once lived in a shallow tropical sea that covered Ontario when it was at the equator! Some Read More
Our friends at the Etobicoke Historical Society announce the unveiling of a historic plaque celebrating George Hebdon Corson, the infamous “Nut Man of Islington”! Plaque will be unveiled on Saturday, November 16 at 3:00pm in Echo Valley Park. Parking available on Wingrove Hill Ave. or on Echo Valley Rd. Read More
Please join the TFN Junior Naturalists this Saturday Nov 9th for a Geology hike and Fossil hunt on the Scarborough Bluffs. Open to people ages 6-14 accompanied by a parent. Meet at Bellehaven Cres. at the Doris McCarthy Trailhead at 10am. Geologist Ed Freeman will tell us about Toronto’s glacial story and the origins of the Read More
Ontario Place has an iconic location on Toronto’s lakeshore, almost downtown. We have 155 acres of publicly owned land, with huge potential to be restored. Ontario Place could become a wonderful public space with many uses – with room for nature and natural habitats and corridors, right on the lake. But the future of Ontario Read More
Thanks to everyone who joined us for an exciting adventure exploring Garden seeds, tree seeds and dissecting acorns! Thanks to Monica and Vanessa for your leadership and input!! We played charades (wow, you guys were good!) to remind ourselves how seeds are dispersed. The Red Oak is Toronto’s unofficial ‘tree’. This is a year of Read More
The fourth annual Toronto Ravine Symposium was held on Thursday, October 10, 2019 at Toronto Botanical Garden. Like previous years, the event drew roughly 150 attendees, gathered together to discuss and celebrate these amazing natural spaces. Unlike previous years, the symposium was followed the next day by an Urban Tree Workshop led by symposium keynote Read More
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.