Events Calendar

Oct
23
Tue
2018
Colborne Lodge Open for Tours @ Colborne Lodge
Oct 23 @ 12:00 pm – Oct 28 @ 4:00 pm

Description:

Guided tours through the Lodge are offered year-round.  Hours, times, and admission prices vary seasonally; visit the website for details.  Visitors see three storeys of rooms restored to illustrate the Howards’ lives in the 1870s and learn about their role in the naming, founding, and development of the park, and their lives on their 165 acre High Park property.

 

 

Oct
25
Thu
2018
Parkdale-High Park Rotary Meeting @ Grenadier Restaurant
Oct 25 @ 7:30 am – 8:30 am

JOIN LEADERS

  • Do you want to make a meaningful difference in our community?
  • Interested in addressing issues like poverty, health, hunger, education and the environment?
  • Want to do more than just hope for world peace?

The Rotary Club of Parkdale-High Park is one of 33,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and regions, forming a network of community service around the world. We are a welcoming, friendly and fun-loving group of men and women from different backgrounds, age groups, cultures and occupations. What we share in common is the desire to work on community projects, both at home and abroad, to make our world a better place. If you want to be part of a global network of community volunteers, then Rotary is for you. We meet Thursday mornings at 7:30 am at the Grenadier Café located in the centre of Toronto’s High Park.

MEETING INFO & LOCATION

Thursday 7:30 AM in High Park
Join us for Breakfast

The Grenadier Restaurant
200 Parkside Drive
Toronto, ON M6R 2Z3
Canada

Haunted High Park @ Colborne Lodge
Oct 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Description:  Discover the chilling legends and ghostly tales that haunt High Park after dark. Dare to step inside the candlelit rooms of Colborne Lodge to learn about 19th-century funeral and mourning traditions. Experience a Victorian Séance presented by Doc Wuthergloom of Eldritch Theatre. Spooky refreshments included.

Advance tickets required: http://colbornelodge.streamintickets.com

 

Oct
26
Fri
2018
Haunted High Park @ Colborne Lodge
Oct 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Description:  Discover the chilling legends and ghostly tales that haunt High Park after dark. Dare to step inside the candlelit rooms of Colborne Lodge to learn about 19th-century funeral and mourning traditions. Experience a Victorian Séance presented by Doc Wuthergloom of Eldritch Theatre. Spooky refreshments included.

Advance tickets required: http://colbornelodge.streamintickets.com

 

Oct
27
Sat
2018
Llama Pen Activities High Park Zoo @ High Park Zoo
Oct 27 @ 11:30 am – Oct 28 @ 2:00 pm

While the Zoo is open every day from 7:00 am to dusk, visitors can get up close to some animals in the Llama Pen on weekends and statutory holidays from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm (beginning in April until the end of October). Visitors can feed and pet the Llamas (Honey and her friends) and interact with other animals such as chickens and rabbits.

Haunted High Park @ Colborne Lodge
Oct 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Description:  Discover the chilling legends and ghostly tales that haunt High Park after dark. Dare to step inside the candlelit rooms of Colborne Lodge to learn about 19th-century funeral and mourning traditions. Experience a Victorian Séance presented by Doc Wuthergloom of Eldritch Theatre. Spooky refreshments included.

Advance tickets required: http://colbornelodge.streamintickets.com

 

Oct
28
Sun
2018
High Park Stewards – Buckthorn Busting @ High Park
Oct 28 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Buckthorn Busting (and BBeds remove cold season grasses & weeds/raking/cut back perennials and grasses/harvest and scatter seeds

Meet in front of the Grenadier Restaurant, rain or shine (but not during thunderstorms)

Please check http://www.highparknature.org/wiki/wiki.php?n=VolunteerOpportunities.VolunteerStewardship  for updates and location changes

Twilight Pumpkin Float in High Park @ High Park Wading Pool
Oct 28 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

23rd Annual Twilight Pumpkin Float in High Park
Sunday, October 28, 2018
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Cost: $2.50/pumpkin

Come carve a pumpkin and set it afloat with other ghoulish gourds!  Meet at the wading pool in the northwest corner of High Park, just west of the main entrance to High Park at Bloor Street West and High Park Avenue.

Proceeds go towards the High Park Nature Centre’s Nearer to Nature Adopt-a-Class program, which brings children and youth from schools in Toronto’s priority neighbourhoods to the High Park for an exciting full day field trip.

 

Haunted High Park @ Colborne Lodge
Oct 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Description:  Discover the chilling legends and ghostly tales that haunt High Park after dark. Dare to step inside the candlelit rooms of Colborne Lodge to learn about 19th-century funeral and mourning traditions. Experience a Victorian Séance presented by Doc Wuthergloom of Eldritch Theatre. Spooky refreshments included.

Advance tickets required: http://colbornelodge.streamintickets.com

 

Oct
30
Tue
2018
Colborne Lodge Open for Tours @ Colborne Lodge
Oct 30 @ 12:00 pm – Nov 4 @ 4:00 pm

Description:

Guided tours through the Lodge are offered year-round.  Hours, times, and admission prices vary seasonally; visit the website for details.  Visitors see three storeys of rooms restored to illustrate the Howards’ lives in the 1870s and learn about their role in the naming, founding, and development of the park, and their lives on their 165 acre High Park property.