CURRENT CONTENTS
Commuting by rail
Conservatory (Allan Gardens)
Toronto ravines
Floating Islands (Brickworks)
Riverdale Farm
Yonge Street
More Toronto ravines. See photo-collages dated September 10, 2020, September 15, 2020, October 5, 2020, October 10, 2020.
Crother Woods
Glen Stewart Park
Humber Bay Park
Authors' Note: We are fortunate to have moved into an apartment building just across the street from a public conservatory whose warm, humid, glass-roofed galleries offer the visitor views and dreams of escape to tropical floral environments. Visits are especially reinvigorating on dark and depressing winter days, and admission is free!
You might also enjoy reviewing photo-enhanced poetry posts related to poinsettias, koi, red-eared sliders(turtles), Ontario cactuses, and Leda and the Swan at the same destination.
To learn more about Toronto Ravines, see the exciting three previous posts entitled "Hikes, Bikes and Likes: TORONTO RAVINES" #1, #2, and #3.
If your crank is turned (to turn a phrase) by the photographic and poetic material you have been viewing here, you might risk proceeding to a related post entitled "Ontario Nostalgia".
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| turtles sunning on a floating island (exceptionally warm day) |
Authors' Note: The first Lieutenant-Governor of the province Of Upper Canada (Ontario), Sir John Simcoe, sought routes leading northward from his new
provincial capital at Toronto, away from the U.S. border.
In 1793, he designed a road, naming it for the British Minister of War, Sir George Yonge, who was also an expert on Roman roads. Yonge Street passes from Lake Ontario north to Lake Simcoe, where it merges into Highway 11, a rural road that extends 1900 km (1200 mi) northwest to the border with the American state of Minnesota.
Sir George, fifth Baronet of Escot, had served as Lord of the Admiralty and master of the mint, and governor of the Cape Colony, but died penniless and heirless, Yonge Street being his only legacy.
Prior to 1999, the Guinness Book of Records mistakenly conflated Yonge Street with Highway 11, and described it as 'the world's longest street’.
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