Lost River Walks

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Web Name: Lost River Walks

WebSite: http://www.lostrivers.ca

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Lost River Walks

Check out our brand new audio tour and webmap for TaddleCreek!

Anthropocene Immersion:
Unearthing Lost Taddle Creek
(web map) Commissioned by and produced
in associationwith
Luminato Festival Toronto
for the Illuminating Ideas Series
Find out more here.

Anthropocene Immersion, Unearthing Lost Taddle Creek is an audio walk from Ryerson University to Toronto City Hall. 
Walking time is approximately an hour to 75 minutes.
The distance is approximately 2 km.  You can access the audio tour below.

You can access the transcript here.

In-person walks will be starting on August 1st 2021.
See Planned Walks page.

Please see the virtual walk options below.
You can also explore lost creeks from headwaters to mouth by using our online field guides:Key map of central Toronto

We are working on more ZOOM walk and webinar options and will keepyou posted here and on Facebook in the next few weeks.

Virtual Self-guided Walks: 
Explore the self-guided tours of Ashbridge’s Bay, Corktown Common, and Parkdale on the interactive maps below.

Check out our new web test maps for Lost Rivers and Rivers Rising!

Corktown and Parkdale Walks
Disappearing Rivers of Toronto and Ashbridges Bay Creeks

DISAPPEARING RIVERS OF TORONTO
PARKDALE WALK
CORKTOWN WALK
ASHBRIDGE'S BAY WATERSHED WALK
ASHBRIDGE'S CREEK WALK
TOMLIN CREEK WALK

Your input is appreciated. Please contact us with comments.

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These maps were developed as a pilot project for Geohistory/Géohistoire, the Canadian Historical GIS Partnership Development Project on behalf of Lost Rivers. Formoreabout themappingproject,see:
http://geohist.ca/2017/10/lost-rivers-pilot-project

Also, check out the Thirsty River Walks.

Or, try the original field guide style Lost River walks by clicking here. 

Media and Interesting Links
Take a look or listen to some of these cool links related to Lost Rivers:

https://maisonneuve.org/article/2020/09/17/walking-water/
is a delightful story from Frances Backhouse featuring Lost Rivers in Victoria, Vancouver, Dartmouth, Toronto and some from around the world. You’ll have to pick up Maisonneuve magazine at a bookstore or subscribe to get the whole story though.
Blog TO
Video from Centennial Park Etobicoke Creek Walk, on Instagram
Full videos from Centennial Park Etobicoke Creek Walk, on YouTube.
Webinar recordings from October 18 walk with John Wilson, on ZOOM.
Our first podcast: onFacebook or How Public Workswith Ilmar Simanovskis, plus look for the podcast from Jose Torcal about his experience with RAINscapeTO.

Lost Rivers Around the World
New York City:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/arts/design/manhattan-virtual-tour-virus.html

Hidden Hydrology is an incredible website based in Portland and Seattle with a wealth of links and info about Lost Rivers worldwide, including this slightly dated article that covers everything to do with Lost Rivers in Toronto.

Hope to see you soon on a walk :)

The objective of Lost River Walks is to encourage understanding of the city as a part of nature rather than apart from it, and to appreciate and cherish our heritage. Lost River Walks aims to create an appreciation of the city’s intimate connection to its water systems by tracing the courses of forgotten streams, by learning about our natural and built heritage and by sharing this information with others.

The Toronto Green Community started Lost River Walks to help us discover the fascinating world of the watershed beneath our feet. This site is the start of a field book on the lost streams of Toronto. Bits of our city’s history, both natural and built, are included. Those interested can take a virtual lost creeks walk, or better, use the information to take a self-guided tour. Come explore nature hidden under our city and along its ravines and byways.

Would you like to lead a Lost River Walk? We are looking for leaders. Contactus at The Streamwalker. We have developed someguidelines, useful for leaders, but which have informationalso useful for those walking on their own.

For more about “Lost River Walks,” how it started,philosophy, who we are, how tocontact us, conventions usedand acknowledgements, please see theIntroduction.

“Lost River Walks” is a joint project of The Toronto GreenCommunity, The Toronto FieldNaturalists and community partners including HikeOntario. Lost River Walks is an official OntarioLegacy Trail, and has been voted one of the 24 best walking programs / trailsystems in the province.

Comments on the Lost River Walks web site should be sent by email to The Streamwalker.

© The copyright to the contents of this website is held by P.J. Hare and TheToronto Green Community. Permission to use information contained within may beobtained by emailing The Streamwalker.

Key map of central Toronto

REFERENCES

PointsofInterest Points of interest Historic Houses Seasonal Notes Towns and Villages Toronto’s Ice Age Issues and Concerns Streams Burke Brook Castle Frank Brook Cudmore Creek Lower Don River Garrison Creek Market Streams Mud Creek Russell Creek Taddle Creek Walmsley Brook Yellow Creek Other Streams Walking between streams New, Seasonal and Topical Pages

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