If you’re ready to start your voyage of discovery to find hidden Leaside, look no further than Susan Scandiffio’s eye-popping scavenger hunt through the ’hood. Susan did the legwork (footwork?) for all of us in …more
From tomatoes to townhouses: Jane’s Walk heads to Bennington Heights Bennington Heights, a triangular-shaped midtown residential neighbourhood, is bounded by Mount Pleasant Cemetery to the north, the Don Valley ravines to the west (Mud Creek) …more
In this month of remembrance, we remember those who lost their lives in service to our country. We attend ceremonial services like those at Sunnybrook and East York Cenotaphs on Nov. 11. And our forebears …more
We have nine Leaside walks and one Leaside Scavenger Hunt for you to discover your neighbourhood! Choose from the 2025 Leaside Scavenger Hunt, Bennington Heights, Plaques of Leaside, Central Leaside, North Leaside, Bayview Institutional Lands, …more
A Walking Tour of The Leaside Business Park Welcome to the Leaside Business Park heritage walk. The link to the brochure of the walk is here: LeasideBusinessParkWalk. Page One – Leaside Business Park Walk:
A Walking Tour of South Leaside Welcome to the South Leaside heritage walk. This significant Leaside “zone” includes some of the grandest and oldest Leaside residences, curving “Garden City” streetscapes designed by Frederick Gage Todd …more
Introduction This walk is the eastern half of a pair of Central Leaside walks, and as such shares the same Introduction as the Central-West Walk. Leaside is a designed cultural heritage landscape – it features …more
A Self-Guided Walking Tour of Leaside Part 3 – Bayview Institutional Lands Preface The Kilgour Estate In the early 1900’s it became fashionable for Toronto’s wealthy elite to have a country estate on the northern edge …more
The second self-guided walking tour of Leaside takes us to North Leaside. Where does North Leaside in fact start? Typically, we think of North Leaside as that part north of Eglinton. If you look at …more
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