Professor Ann Shteir – Women and Plants: A Fruitful Topic on Wednesday, March 15 at 2:30 pm (Winter Forum #5)

Professor Ann Shteir, professor emerita, York University recently edited and published “Flora’s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in 19th Century Canada” ( 2021) (McGill/Queens Press).  She and her team uncovered about ten neglected women who contributed to botany in Canada during this era. Some collected seeds; some developed gardens; some wrote guides to plants; some made quilts depicting Canadian and British plants. This book is the outgrowth of an earlier conference she organized to focus on women and botany in the 19th century.

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Allan Gardens and Cabbagetown Holiday Walk Summary – December 5, 2022

On December 5, 2022, our group meandered through Toronto’s Garden District (College/Gerrard Eastbound area) and Cabbagetown. We stopped first at College Park parklands where we had a view of lone skaters taking advantage of the newly installed circular skating rink. We headed south past the recently opened downtown IKEA, then through the Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) and then walked on to Allan Gardens and Cabbagetown.

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Upcoming Holiday Walks – December 2022

Snowflakes on ice covered branches when walking in Toronto.

Join us for holiday walks in December! See the beautiful Allan Gardens and tour Cabbagetown on December 5, 2022. We’ll also be touring Rosedale and Yorkville on December 19, 2022.

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Rosedale to Cabbagetown Halloween Walk Summary – October 31, 2022

On Monday October 31st at the late hour of 3:00 pm and under appropriately dark skies with rain threatening, our group gathered in Ramsden Park for the ‘annual’ 2-year delayed Halloween discovery walk. Under the leadership of the Halloween-appropriate-dressed leader, we headed into the Rosedale community, with Cluny Drive and South Road providing stunning  and photogenic skeletal tableaus. We proceeded…

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Beltline Trail Walk Summary – October 3, 2022

It was a perfect Fall day to traverse the Kay Gardner Beltline Park trails and Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. With four visitors on invitation from the Seniors Hiking Club of Toronto, we departed from TTC Eglinton West (the station and its surroundings are still under ongoing construction) heading North along residential Park Hill Road, then…

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