EVERY CITY NEEDS A GREAT PARK. It’s hard to imagine the world’s urban centres without their iconic parks – Manhattan’s Central Park, Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, the Bois du Boulogne in Paris, Montreal’s Mount Royal Park, Berlin’s Tiergarten, Stanley Park in …
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Hometown Lockdown: The Rouge National Park is an Enchanted Forest
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 …
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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 …
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