Retracing Stop Spadina - A Jane’s Walk with HiMY SYeD
Sunday, April 27th, 2008Retracing Stop Spadina
Time: Saturday May 3, noon
Meeting place: In front of the Eglinton West Station
Tour Guide: HiMY SYeD
This Jane’s Walk begins where the Spadina Expressway was stopped, the three foot wide sidewalk that then Premier Bill Davis ceded to the Old City of Toronto to block Metro’s desire to complete the expressway south of Eglinton Avenue West.
The tour will then head south, winding our way through neighbourhoods which would have been drastically reduced if not removed had the Spadina Expressway been completed all the way to downtown.
Rest Stops along the way include:
• Forest Hill Village,
• Spadina House beside Casa Loma,
• The park at the top of Albany Avenue at Barton - St. Alban’s Square where we will see the little known “Jacobs Ladder”.
Strolling through The Annex, we will arrive at 69 Albany Avenue, Jane Jacobs’ House, where this Jane’s Walk will end.
A history of the Stop Spadina controversy will be presented throughout the walk, along with stories and archive photos of each of the neighbourhoods we will be walking through.
A limited number of printed materials will be available on a first come first served basis as keepsakes of this Jane’s Walk.
