2009 Walks Season begins with a special self-guided tour
Our 2009 Heritage Toronto Walks Season is around the corner - and it begins with a special self-guided walk this year to honour our city's birthday: 1834 Toronto: Beating the Bounds.
Dirt streets and wooden sidewalks, the smell of wood smoke and stables, schooners and steamboats in the harbour - this was what one would have encountered here in 1834, the year the growing Town of York (population 9,252) was incorporated as the City of Toronto. While it is a challenge to fully understand life back then, we can get a sense of the scope of the early city - through our feet!
In celebration of Toronto's 175th anniversary, Heritage Toronto and Spacing magazine invite you to walk the 1834 city boundaries in a one-of-a-kind modern ‘pilgrimage'. Pick up a map between 1:00 and 2:30 PM at the start point and walk the route at your own pace. Or drop by the Heritage Toronto office after April 25 to pick up the map and do this tour at your own convenience.
Heritage Toronto will be joined by Councillor Adam Vaughan (TBD) and Shawn Micallef of spacing magazine.
*The first 100 people who finish the walk will receive a copy of J.G. Chewett 1834 map of the City of Toronto at Mill Street Brewery, in the Distillery District, and a coupon for a 10% discount off a food purchase.
START POINT: N end of Market Lane Park, west side of St. Lawrence Hall, 157 King St E at Jarvis St
FINISH POINT: Parliament Square Park, Parliament St, 1 block S of Front St E, near the Distillery District
LENGTH: Approx. 4 to 4 1/2 hours or 9 to 9.5 km
FOCUS: Historical
DIFFICULTY: Very long walk on pavement, park grounds, some slopes
For the 2009 Heritage Toronto Walks schedule, click here.
Map: J.G. Chewett, City of Toronto, 1834, MsX1918.1, Toronto Reference Library
