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Secure your spot on this captivating tour with a nominal $6 booking fee. At the end, we invite you to tip your guide based on your experience. Most participants find the tour so enriching that they happily tip $10 or more, reflecting the hard work and passion of our guides. Prepare for an unforgettable exploration of Toronto's history!
Meet us at Queen’s Park Station for a revealing historical walking tour through Toronto’s lush and historic Queen’s Park and down University Avenue. From generals with mixed legacies to revered poets, athletes, and politicians, we navigate Canada's rich history through its statues and murals. Our tour highlights figures such as Mary Pickford, Norman Bethune, Queen Victoria, and Terry Fox, and many others, offering a diverse perspective on figures who have impacted Canadia history
Enjoy an interactive experience where Canada’s founding cultures—Indigenous, French, and British—come to life, revealing the multifaceted stories of those commemorated in bronze and stone. Inspired by Joni Mitchell, we aim to view history from "both sides now," offering a balanced narrative that engages and educates.
Join us to admire the artistry of world-renowned sculptors and muralists such as Lea Vivot, Alexander Bacon/Que Rock and Walter Seymour Allward, whose works contribute significantly to our cultural landscape. This tour is not just a historical journey but a testament to Canada's artistic legacy, showcased through its public monuments.
Our unique style of combining history with pure entertainment, stories & jokes has made us one of the most popular walking tour companies in Canada!
This walking tour starts outside the Queen's Park Subway Station entrance south of the Fallen Firefighters Memorial, at the north east corner of College St and University Ave
This tour ends at Osgoode Hall, near the corner of University Ave and Queen St W (not far from City Hall and the CF Eaton Centre)
There is a $6 administrative booking fee to guarantee your spot on the tour, and you are encouraged to tip your guide what you feel the tour was worth at the end. Most guests tip $10 per person, some even more. Our guides work very hard for tips, and you are guaranteed you’ll have a GREAT tour!
Join us outside Queen’s Park Station for a journey back through history! Encounter flawed generals, actors, physicians, poets, athletes, politicians – and world events -- as we explore Canada’s story in statue and mural form.
What we have found, since Canada had essentially three founding peoples -- Indigenous, French and British -- heroes of one cultural group are often the villains of the others -- and vice versa.
To paraphrase great Canadian artist Joni Mitchell: we’re looking at history from “both sides now!”
We’ll get to know or “meet” . . .
· Sir John A MacDonald
· Queen Victoria
· Norman Bethune
· The Northwest Rebellion
· John Graves Simcoe
· First World War
· Mary Pickford
· Terry Fox
· Sir Adam Beck
And many more!
We’ll also explore the work of some of the world's leading sculptors and muralists including Oscar Nemon, Leah Vivot, Alexander Bacon and Que Rock -- as well as the principle Canadian monumentalist of his age, Walter Seymour Allward, whose masterwork can be seen in the Vimy Memorial to Canada’s fallen soldiers in France.
Our unique style of combining history with pure entertainment, stories & jokes has made us one of the most popular walking tour companies in Canada!
This walking tour starts outside the Queen's Park Subway Station entrance south of the Fallen Firefighters Memorial, at the north east corner of College St and University Ave
This tour ends at Osgoode Hall, near the corner of University Ave and Queen St W (not far from City Hall and the CF Eaton Centre)
