Every Painting has a Story

Story by Andrew Yee “I used to live around Grenadier Pond when I was in university. I never went to the park. I lived basically a few minutes walk from the park, but I’d never been there. Then I discovered a family nature walk in NOW magazine.  Oh, I...

 Story by Lynda Dunal Toronto offers an array of winter activities to keep most sports enthusiasts happy. One activity I have recently become reacquainted with is skating.  One Saturday late afternoon this past January my husband and I were cycling on our way to...

Story by Dianne For many years my son participated in the Big Brothers Soap Box Derby. The event was traditionally held every September on Centre Road. He attended his first derby at the age of 7 years. After that first year he gained the nick-name of “Crash” and you...

Story based on a conversation with Jon Hayes, Program Director of the High Park Nature Centre This is a space in the city where kids can have the freedom to explore, tinker, build and play. During the summer months goldenrod, thistle, grasses and shrubs grow high...

Story by AJ Alberti “In the way that we tend to take for granted so many of the fundamentally important things in life I have never really thought of High Park in thematic terms. But in doing so now I discovered that there is a thread connecting my many years’ worth...

Story based on a conversation with John LaRose ”Now I see a tree of agile grace and beauty, limbs in upward swing pulling down the sun, building up the earth, breathing out the air, this very life for us, this simple truth, we are all made up of one…” Excerpt of a...

Story by Kathryn Naylor “Like many people, my husband and I like to get some exercise in High Park.  We do a lot of mountain trekking and scrambling, and there’s only one good way to train for that:  put on the backpack and traipse up and down some hills.  We...

Story by Michael Ball “On my regular walks around High Park I marvel at the wide range of sights, smells and experiences which are available to me, and other, to freely enjoy. The park is a unique place only minutes from a noisy, hectic, and a crowded urban world so I...

Story based on a conversation with Sandy, a High Park Zookeeper “When Honey was born, High Park Zoo was in a fight for it’s life. The City of Toronto had cut funding for the zoo and it was at imminent risk of shutting down. ‘Friends of High Park Zoo’ was formed and...