Harbourfront: Our Grand Concourse! (MEGA-TOUR 2026)

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** Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket price when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:
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SS Noronic (pictured above), Little Norway Park, Maple Leaf Baseball Stadium, iconic names from the harbourfront, and the list goes on! It was where Toronto got started and ended in many ways, both physically and emotionally. To this day we look at the waterfront as the place where Toronto begins. Its soul! But the history of the waterfront has been troubled right from the first decade when Toronto was known as York and the dumping of garbage and waste into the Bay was common.

Toronto's Harbourfront has been the neighbourhood that has changed the most over the last century. A place almost unrecognizable forty years ago. The changes have been rapid and overwhelming.

The central harbour has been used for shipping and industrial purposes since York was founded in 1793. The original shoreline was just south of Front Street. The area south to today's shoreline south of Queen's Quay was filled in with landfill, creating new land and a host of new problems! It has not been a happy co-existence.

The Pierre Elliot Trudeau government announced the Harbourfront project, similar to the Granville Island project in Vancouver, BC. prior to 1972. The idea was to create a cultural and residential zone that would push the industrial companies and factories out of the harbour lands. Well most of that did happen, but was it all for the best? Let's explore!

This walking tour begins in Little Norway Park adjacent to Queen's Quay West, at the foot of Bathurst Street, and ends at Sugar Beach at the foot of Jarvis Street.

This walking tour is for all walking levels. Please dress for the season, and hope to see you there.

This walk has a ticket price of $15.00 per person.

** Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket price when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:
**torontohistorywalks@gmail.com**