Come and enjoy a traditional afternoon tea in the historic surroundings of Toronto’s First Post Office. The post office, constructed in 1833, will be converted for an afternoon into an intimate tea room. After you arrive and check in, you will have the opportunity to enjoy a light afternoon tea in the post office’s Victorian interior. After tea, a presentation on some element of Toronto’s past will be given.

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This tour explores College Street, the heart of Toronto’s original "Little Italy", from Bathurst Street west to around Dovercourt Road. It was during the 1920s that College Street's 'Little Italy', became recognized as the residential and commercial centre of Toronto's Italian community. However, Italian immigration really started back around 1885. A century later, in 1985, the local business association on College Street officially adopted the "Little Italy" name...

This tour focuses on the architecture of the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto, as well as the history of the Yorkville neighbourhood. The Saint George (downtown) campus of the University of Toronto is home to over a century and a half of architectural styles, and the appearance of the campus is constantly changing. The Royal Ontario Museum itself shows four distinct architectural styles, from the original structure built just before the First World War, to the Michael...

"The Annex" is the name for the Toronto neighbourhood that lies between Avenue Road in the east, Bathurst Street in the west, Bloor Street in the south and Dupont Street in the north. This charming residential neighbourhood was laid out in the 1870s and 1880s, and immediately started to attract Toronto’s elite residents. In keeping with this, we will visit the former home of George Gooderham, one of the richest men in the history of Toronto. His mansion was constructed at...

On this walk, we’ll explore the enchanting neighbourhoods of Cabbagetown, Corktown and the popular Distillery District. The back streets and lane ways of Cabbagetown are lined with charming Victorian houses. We’ll walk through Corktown, where the Irish Catholic immigrants of a century ago used to live, and we will follow the routes that they used to walk to work at the Gooderham and Worts Distillery District. As we pass by the Necropolis Cemetery, we will talk about the lives of...

“To men who fall as they have fallen, death is no evil” ~ Pericles

This tour pays tribute to the men and women in Toronto who have served in the Canadian military, as well as the civil police and firefighter services. We explore the various military monuments in the downtown core, and in so doing unveil some of the military traditions in Toronto and Canadian history.

We meet outside the Royal Ontario Museum, and then walk south through the...

Toronto’s past is reflected through it’s street names and neighbourhoods. You pass by street signs, subway stations and neighbourhoods every day, but you may have never listened for their stories. There are curious facts, profound events, and touching stories hiding behind the names of so many of our streets, intersections and neighbourhoods. Sign up for this tour, go for a walk with your guide, and we promise you’ll never look at those street signs and neighbourhood names...

Toronto’s past is reflected through it’s street names and neighbourhoods. You pass by street signs, subway stations and neighbourhoods every day, but you may have never listened for their stories. There are curious facts, profound events, and touching stories hiding behind the names of so many of our streets, intersections and neighbourhoods. Sign up for this tour, go for a walk with your guide, and we promise you’ll never look at those street signs and neighbourhood names...

Toronto is a city of lost rivers. There were a dozen or more prominent creeks and rivers that ran through the city until European settlement started to sprawl across the city and cover them up. Mostly today they have been bricked up as sewers, and they are an unknown natural mystery to today’s city residents. But they still gurgle under your feet as you make your way across downtown Toronto. The story of their disappearance is an important part of our urban ecology.

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In the heart of central Toronto lies Mount Pleasant Cemetery, one of the city’s oldest resting places and final home to a number of the nation’s leading citizens and families. Mount Pleasant Cemetery dates back over 130 years to 1876, and on this tour we explore the stories of some of the most historic names in Canadian and Toronto history.

On this tour, we will visit the grave sites of many important luminaries. Some of them went on to achieve wealth and fame,...