This year Architect and Television host Angus Skene is offering three brand new walks of historic Toronto neighbourhoods.
1. The Grange Neighbourhood
With stately manors, humble cottages and art students propped up on sticks the Grange neighbourhood displays almost every era of Toronto city building. Follow Angus as he charts the path from a rural estate in early Toronto to the recent excitement of OCAD building and Frank Gehry’s new AGO.
Date: 1:00PM Sunday June 29, 2008. Tour meets at North-East corner of Queen Street West and John Street.
2. University of Toronto
From drooping Ivy to taut glass towers the University of Toronto sprawls out across the City. But beneath the sprawl is a landscape built by politics, religion and intrigue. Follow Angus as he makes sense of the wonderful array of buildings and styles that tell the story of the country’s largest university and how it came to cover so much of our City.
Date: 1:00PM Sunday September 28, 2008. Tour meets at North-West corner of College and University.
3. Jarvis Street
For those who like their glory faded there’s no better place to look than the neighbourhod on and around Jarvis street. Dusty mansions and defiant old churches fill the streets around Allen Gardens – a nineteenth century collection of glass and exotic plants that would make Charles Darwin proud. Follow Angus as he shows how seeds planted by a few early families grew into one of the City’s best known and most forgotten neighbourhoods.
Date: 1:00PM Sunday October 26, 2008. Tour meets at North-East corner of Queen Street East and Jarvis.
Cost and Registration
Each neighbourhood walk is two hours in length, moves at a comfortable pace and starts and ends at a location convenient to the T.T.C. (public transit). The price for each walk is $15 in advance or $20 on the day of the tour.
Register for any of our tours by e-mailing architourscanada@gmail.com. We need your name, phone number and the name of the tour that you would like to sign up for.
Then to pay for the tour please make out a cheque or money order to Rewind Inc and send it to 142 Glendale Avenue, Toronto, Canada M6R 2T2. Remember that our local walking tours are $15.00 in advance and $20 on the day so early registation saves you money!
