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Take A Walk On The Wild Side:
Homegrown National Park In A Bee City
Gillian Leitch
HOME GROWN NATIONAL PARK RANGER
The Garrison Creek has long fed the imagination of Torontonians. In 2013, the David Suzuki Foundation’s Homegrown
National Park Project began as an effort to grow a butterfly
corridor through the city, initially along the buried Garrison
Creek watershed. Since then, the project’s team of dozens
of volunteer Homegrown Park Rangers, friends and partners
continue to bring dozens of pollinator plantings, joyous community events and thousands of native wildflowers to the city.
Toronto’s Place Names:
What They Reveal And What They
Hide About Our Story
Brian MacLean
FIRST STORY
Street names, the names of our parks, the presence of historical plaques and monuments in public places – they all
reflect choices to honour people or events, or acknowledge
a setting. This Jane’s Walk told the stories of street and park
names in one Toronto neighbourhood and what those names
reveal – or hide – about the Toronto story. It contrasted the
Indigenous naming practices we know of with the names that
dominate today’s landscape.
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