A Field Guide to Tactical Heritage Urbanism Volume 1: October 2016

Take A Walk On The Wild Side: Homegrown National Park In A Bee City Gillian Leitch HOME GROWN NATIONAL PARK RANGER The Garrison Creek has long fed the imagination of Torontonians. In 2013, the David Suzuki Foundation’s Homegrown National Park Project began as an effort to grow a butterfly corridor through the city, initially along the buried Garrison Creek watershed. Since then, the project’s team of dozens of volunteer Homegrown Park Rangers, friends and partners continue to bring dozens of pollinator plantings, joyous community events and thousands of native wildflowers to the city. Toronto’s Place Names: What They Reveal And What They Hide About Our Story Brian MacLean FIRST STORY Street names, the names of our parks, the presence of historical plaques and monuments in public places – they all reflect choices to honour people or events, or acknowledge a setting. This Jane’s Walk told the stories of street and park names in one Toronto neighbourhood and what those names reveal – or hide – about the Toronto story. It contrasted the Indigenous naming practices we know of with the names that dominate today’s landscape. 46

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