Villiers Island: Meet Toronto’s Newest River and Island

WALK LEADERS : Danny Brown from Parks Forestry & Recreation and Sonja Vangjeli / Julie Bogdanowicz from the Urban Design team in City Planning

We will be standing on the grass near the bridge.

DATE : Saturday May 4, 2024

WALK START TIME : 3:30 p.m.

WALK END TIME : 5:30 p.m.

WALK START LOCATION : Meet on the new Cherry Street bridge across the Keating Channel

WALK END LOCATION : Join us for social gathering, food and drink at the Keating Channel and Old Cherry Street

A generational project has just reached a major milestone: we built a new river, and we made an island!

Join us for a walk in the Port Lands across three new bridges.

Take a peek at new parks that will open in 2025.

Walk the Cherry Street heritage corridor and visualize how the industrial area will transform into a vibrant complete community over the coming decades.

Three new park spaces – Promontory Park South, and River Parks North and South – along with a new kilometre-and-a-half river valley for the mouth of the Don River will collectively add around 11.2 hectares of parkland to the Waterfront.

Together, the Port Lands Park System will deliver new habitat, floodplains, picnicking and playground areas, canoe and kayak infrastructure, event spaces, and other amenities.

At the same time, the new parks will also serve as flood protection infrastructure, protecting hundreds of acres of Downtown land and unlocking 240 hectares for the next generation of waterfront revitalization.

Hear about all of this, and more, on the tour and ask questions of some of the professionals helping to deliver this momentous project.

The Port Lands Flood Protection Project is being delivered by three levels of government, through Waterfront Toronto as well as the City of Toronto and Create TO.

The tour will be led by City of Toronto staff: Danny Brown from Parks Forestry & Recreation and Sonja Vangjeli / Julie Bogdanowicz from the Urban Design team in City Planning.

LANGUAGE : English

THEMEs :

• Architecture and Urban Planning
• Environment and Sustainability
• History and Places
• People and Communities
• Transit and Accessibility
• Flood Protection
• Parks
• Infrastructure
• Bridges
• Design

ACCESSIBILITY :

• Dog-friendly walk
• Family-friendly walk
• Walk leader will use audio amplification
• Some adjacent areas are under construction