We have five walking tours of Leaside for your enjoyment. Choose from Central Leaside, Leaside Institutional Lands, North Leaside, South Leaside or Central-East Leaside! A (solo guided) walking tour. Part 1: Central Leaside A (solo …more
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
Background I remind you of what I believe to be an essential background context to all the walks: Leaside as a designed cultural heritage landscape – features that make Leaside Leaside – the Todd town …more
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