ROUGE NATIONAL URBAN PARK IS THE ONLY CANADIAN NATIONAL PARK IN A CITY. That it took me as long as it did to finally make it out there can only be explained by its location – all the way across …
Hometown Lockdown: A Day Trip to a few of Hamilton’s Waterfalls
THANKS TO LOCKDOWN, IT’S BEEN ALMOST A YEAR SINCE I LEFT MY HOMETOWN, so I was looking for an excuse for a day trip, to find something Toronto doesn’t have. As I’ve discovered for myself, the city has plenty of …
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Hometown Lockdown: Between Floods and Late Fall along Wilket Creek
ON A DIM, COOL AUTUMN AFTERNOON WHEN THERE ARE MORE LEAVES ON THE GROUND THAN ON THE TREES it’s hard to believe that the polite creek flowing underneath this bridge can be a raging torrent. But it’s true – flowing …
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A Cemetery Tour through the Toronto of the Dead
PEOPLE DIE ALL THE TIME IN TORONTO. For much of the city’s earliest history, cemeteries were the closest thing we had to public parks. Victoria Square, the city’s first cemetery, is still a public park, and most people walking their …
Chasing fall colour along Toronto’s creeks and ravines
LEAVES TURNING MEANS THAT FALL IS ALMOST OVER. At least it does in this part of the world, where winter is generally longer than advertised, sprawling into autumn and spring on either side of its already-too-large seat. Intent on enjoying …
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Hometown Lockdown: Walking through the heart of Toronto up the dirty Don River
THERE’S A TRADITION IN TORONTO TO FEEL SORRY FOR THE DON RIVER. The Don is the most important of the three rivers that run through Toronto, and as a result it’s the most abused – a waterway that was declared …
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