It just wouldn’t be summer in Toronto without the street festivals. Pretty much any weekend from June to September there is a festival happening in the city, sometimes two or three events on the same weekend. The Toronto Chinatown Festival is an annual tradition recently celebrated on Spadina Avenue between Sullivan Street and St. Andrew […]
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OK, I realize Toronto Pride is not really a TO Cityscape, per se, but it’s a major event that shakes up the city once a year, so I think it’s worthy of coverage. Love it or hate it, Pride was back for another year, despite a $900,000.00 shortfall of cash – a result of some […]
600 Parliament Street in St. James Town is a visual reminder of resistance to the area’s development in the 1960s. Sitting on Parliament Street near Wellesley Street East, I have passed this building hundreds of times; every time I pass by it strikes me as incongruous to the rest of the neighbourhood. The family of […]
Set in Nathan Phillips Square, Cavalcade of Lights is an annual free event that transforms City Hall and and the Square into a dazzling wonderland. This year there is lots of lights, art installations and, of course, free skating: Skaters at Nathan Phillips Square: MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!!
This season the tradition of the Christmas Flower Show continues at the Palm House in the Allan Gardens Conservatory. The entire conservatory is decorated and filled with thousands of flowering plants, over 30 varieties of poinsettia and seasonal topiary masterpieces made entirely of plant material. In previous years the Conservatory had an event called “Christmas […]
Although the Hudson’s Bay store is now long gone from what was their flagship store at Yonge and Queen, the Christmas windows have been resuscitated. Yes! “The Bay Christmas windows” are back for 2025, courtesy of Cadillac Fairview, and I (along with many, many others) am very happy about this! Background On a frigid Sunday […]
The Fairmont Royal York’s hotel lobby has taken on what hotel staff label a winter wonderland appearance, decorated with reminders of reindeer and other items synonymous with Christmas.
Well, it’s that time again… love it or hate it, we’re on the countdown to Christmas. I’ve always liked the way Christmas comes together in the city, so this past weekend I took a little walk around a few downtown spots to see how things are ramping up for Christmas. The temperature was -15 with […]
At 188 Carlton Street, on the corner of Bleecker Street, sits St. Peter’s Anglican Church, now known as Dixon Hall Neighbourhood Services. The English Gothic Revival-style building was constructed between 1865 and 1866, with additions and modifications over the years. In the late 1800s St. Peter’s was a refuge for the Underground Railroad. It was […]
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You know what Marvin ? I never knew about this. I really have never got close enough to see all…
Yes Marvin. I have been to a couple of these festivals in the past. It is a HUGE EVENT now…
I have always admired this sculpture but it seems to disappear amongst all the grey facades of the surrounding buildings.…
11 Walmer Road was originally clad as it is clad post 2018 with black bricks and white bricks etc. They…
Yes I've seen these sculptures and have enjoyed them. Sculptures and statues really liven up a city!