Make a Jane's Walk Happen in the Junction: Lead a Tour

Tour Guide Invitation: Lead A Jane Jacobs Walking Tour:

Third Annual Jane’s Walk in Toronto: May 2 & 3, 2009
Credit: maytree.com

"Jane’s Walk is not a tourism initiative, it’s a chance to go deeper in neighbourhoods you don’t know, or want to know better."
Tips For Tour Guides
compiled by Jane Farrow with contributions from Tim Groves, Heather McLean and Leigh Thorpe

LEAD A JANE JACOBS WALKING TOUR
3RD ANNUAL JANE’S WALK IN TORONTO
MAY 2 & 3 2009

Jane’s Walk is the street-level celebration of Jane Jacobs legacy. The Centre for City Ecology sponsors this event across North America which combines the simple act of walking with personal observations, urban history and local lore as a means of knitting people together into strong and resourceful communities. Over 6,000 people explored over 140 neighbourhoods across Canada during last year’s Jane’s Walk.

We are inviting you to lead a tour in an area where you live, work or play. It simply involves planning a route, thinking through the stories, places and people you want to talk about, then walking participants through it – you decide what’s important. If you like, you could share the guiding duties with a few other resourceful friends or colleagues....

Jane’s Walk is an exceptional opportunity for Torontonians to discover their city – both places they think they know well and places they want to explore. We hope you’ll join us in offering an insider’s take on your city’s vibrant and fascinating neighbourhoods.

Jane Farrow, Executive Director, CCE & Jane’s Walk
director@janeswalk.net 416-642-5779 www.janeswalk.net

For more information, download the Tour Guide Invitation or the Partnership Outline document.

See a few photos of last year's Walk in the Junction's "West Bend"

Jane’s Walk in the Toronto Junction's "West Bend" with Duncan Farnan, May 3, 2008"

Photos @ artjunction.blogspot.com

link:
Jane’s Walk in the Junction's "West Bend"
By Hilary Bell, West Bend resident
May 16, 2008

Jane’s Walk in the Junction's "West Bend"

Jane’s Walk in the Toronto Junction's "West Bend" with Duncan Farnan, May 3, 2008"

Photos @ artjunction.blogspot.com

Notes & Impressions:

On Saturday, May 3, 2008, a dozen or so “flâneurs” strolled the neighbourhood tucked into the sweeping north-west curve of the CPR line north of Bloor Street West. Beginning at the elegant 1920s Lawn Bowling Clubhouse in Baird Park, named for the late mayor of West Toronto Junction, we made our way to Keele and Dundas, the still-bustling heart of the Junction. Those present shared tales of the Junction’s glory days as a railway town, its theatre district, its long "dry" years and its present resurgence as a tight-knit creative hub. We marveled at the array of religious offerings from the mainstream Victorian edifices to the Tibetan Buddhist temple (formerly the Heintzman Piano Company’s showroom), to the Hindu and African Pentecostal storefronts.
Later, we walked the undulating, leafy neighbourhood streets with their eclectic mix of Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian architecture (sometimes all on a single house!), infilled here and there with bungalows from the 40s and the odd six-plex from the 50s built on filled ravine sites. From street to street, the different building styles tell a story of the great and small, of merchants and industrialists, builders and professionals, labourers and factory workers. A builder’s house from the early 20th century showed vernacular architecture at its most innovative – a small frame house covered completely with surplus decorative terracotta.
A detour or two into the spacious laneways opened a world hidden away where song sparrows called from mature trees and along the railway line, trilliums and mayapples were emerging into the spring rain.
See you next year!

2008 © Hilary Bell, West Bend resident
info@thewestbend.ca

YouTube Video: Jane's Walk 2010: The Barrel Roof House, Abbott Street, Toronto, May 1, 2010 

"This unusual house dates from about 1970. It is a good example of the sometimes ingenious approach taken to infill construction. It is tucked in beside a laneway on a tiny property with a side-built carriage house. Even though it is quite unusual in design, it fits nicely into the street. Duncan Farnan, of the Toronto Westbend Community Association, talks about it while guiding one of the 2010 Jane's Walks.

The street features a couple of the last original oaks in the West Bend, examples of the Black Oak Savannah ecology of High Park. The dip in the street results from an underground stream. 

At the start of the tape, some people are talking about a ghost, but I believe that was in connection with a different property. 

http://thewestbend.ca/ "

Uploaded by motoronna on May 6, 2010

permanent link:
Jane’s Walk in the Junction's "West Bend"
http://artjunction.blogspot.com/2008/05/janes-walk-in-junctions-west-bend.html

Get out, Walk, and Discover Your West Bend - Junction Hood

Digital Collage: Toronto Jane's Walk2008
Credit: The Centre for City Ecology (CCE)

West Bend - Junction

Time: 9:45 a.m. Saturday, May 3, 2008
Meeting Location: Lawn Bowling Club - Baird Park (Keele Street and Humberside Avenue)

Guides by: Duncan Farnan
The West Bend is one of the original neighbourhoods of the former City of West Toronto Junction, which this year celebrates its Centennial. Ecologically the area is an extension of High Park's Carolinian Forest and historically it is part of the Junction's commercial and industrial strip. The West Bend is one Toronto's lesser known neighbourhoods but extremely rich in social and visual history - the site of the first TTC route, 19th and 20th c. vernacular architecture, the Riwoche Tibetan Buddhist Temple as well as turn-of-the-century Edwardian and Victorian houses.

Come explore the various Indian Roads, flourishing laneways and the famous Girls (Edna, Wanda, Annette Street...) that form the interior of this scrabby little enclave north of Bloor, east of Keele and beside the great curve of Dundas Street West and the CPR-CNR Main lines.

The walk will be lead by Duncan Farnan, resident and independent curator and art dealer with specialty interest in unknown, unsigned and lost art. Strenuous conversation encouraged.

Credit: The Center for City Ecology: Jane's Walk

links:
The West Bend Community Association (TWBCA), Toronto, Ontario
http://www.thewestbend.ca
Centre for City Ecology: Jane's Walk
http://janeswalk.net/
Riwoche Tibetan Buddhist Temple - Toronto
http://www.riwoche.com/
Junction City - The City of West Toronto Celebrates 100 Years
http://thejunctioncity.com/

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