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This page links to various odds and sods of Toronto photos. This gallery, like the others, started in 2007 when I was travelling so much, and more recently I've been slow to add photos, even when I have them. But I've now added a nice new catch-all 2010 gallery, bringing it more up to date.

 

Photo List - (Total 913 Photos)  Click bolded headers below to view, or click "just the best" for quick tour

  • 2010 Toronto Photos (137 photos) - A selection of photos to bring my Toronto gallery up to date, arranged chronologically. These include: single photos of baking bread, a dinner party, drive in the country, two photos of a giant colon, then my sister's visit to Toronto, a work visit to Allan Gardens Palm House, Lois's visit to Toronto, Andrew's visit to Toronto, and Empty Bowls.

  • Photos from Yvon and Bob's Wedding (224 photos) - Way too many photos of our wedding, including the visits of Yvon's family and Bob's family to Toronto, the ceremony, our Friday night dinner, the Saturday party, and other weekend events. Many thanks to Réjean for acting as our unofficial photographer and taking so many of these photos, and to Felix and Elmina for giving me downloads from their own cameras.

  • Art Gallery of Ontario (57 photos) - After being closed for some time, the Art Gallery of Ontario opened again in 2008, having a members preview that I went to with friends Craig and Neil. We lined up to be among the first to enter, and spent four hours looking at new artworks, at old favourites, and finding our way around the magnificent spaces of Frank Gehry's major addition to the gallery. The interior of the building is a revelation, even without all the features yet ready for prime time (none of the three wacky staircases were yet open to the public). As photographs in the gallery are strictly forbidden, some of the photos are a bit blurry (no flash). 

  • Doors Open, Contact, Luminato and Marcy (233 photos) - A huge gallery of early summertime delights:

  • Doors Open is Toronto's annual architectural festival, and this year I visited the Gladstone Hotel, St. Annes Anglican Church, the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, the Don Valley Brick Works, and the Distillery District, some of this with my friends Rick and Dave. Afterwards we hit the Eagle for beer.

  • Contact is a photography festival, which overlaps pleasingly with Doors Open, and I have a bunch of photos of that, from art in public places and in galleries.

  • My pal Marcy visited and we strolled through the city, including Exhibition Place, Fort York, Queen Street and Liberty Village, imbibing heavily along the way, before going to a Leonard Cohen concert that was wonderful. On Sunday we went and saw a fantastic exhibit at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. We also visited some Luminato venues and saw the remains of the Contact festival.

  • Right after these, Luminato, an arts festival, got under way and I visited several venues for that, and enjoyed a beer in Dundas Square.

  • Toronto FC Game (23 photos) - Lily and I got tickets to a Toronto FC Soccer game, mostly because the weather was so crappy, but we went anyways and had a good time. We even watched the game a little, but got there too late (in spite of our colleague and friend Steve's warning) to see the game's only goal. 

  • Yvette in Toronto (19 photos) - Thanks to the difficulties of flying standby, Yvon had to bring his mom to Toronto rather than to Montreal as planned, on the day we were to leave for Paris. They also had to leave really early. However, it did give time for Yvette to see a bit of the city, and to experience her first subway ride. These photos show her at all the Toronto standbys, including the CN Tower, Air Canada Centre, City Hall, in churches, on the subway, and in planes. 

  • Leslie Spit (20 photos) - I drove my bike out the spit one April morning, and took photos of the cormorants and other birds there, as well as various other oddities. The spit is both grotesque and beautiful at the same time, and how lucky we are to have it.

  • Three big Toronto Panoramas from 2008 (3 photos) - Three shots of the skyline, from different places.

  • Royal Ontario Museum (37 photos) - Photos of the inside, outside, up and down of the new addition to the Royal Ontario Museum, from when it opened in 2007. Also incudes photos of a dinner in C5, the restaurant and bar atop the gallery (Photos 29-37).

  • Toronto Waterfront (32 photos) - Photos of HtO park when it was new, a trip out the Leslie Spit, at the Beach in the east end, and taking the ferry to the islands.

  • Ireland Park (18 photos) - Day and night photos of a new waterfront park, commemorating the arrival of many Irish in Toronto during the mid 19th century. Many died after their arrival while in quarantine, and are buried near where the park is located. The artist responsible for the statues has another set in Ireland, who in that case are leaving the land. Also shown is the beautiful glass brick beacon.

  • Other Random Pics (32 photos) - Some of these are from Christmastime, and show decorations and people enjoying Nathan Phillips Square. Others are just sights or artwork around the city.

  • Waterloo + Kitchener + Cambridge (52 photos) - Yvon and I drove to Waterloo primarily to see the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery (which won a Governor Generals Medal for Architecture for Patkau Architects in 1997) and the Perimeter Centre (which won a GG Medal in 2006 for Saucier + Perrotte). These two buildings, and the former Seagrams Site, are all nestled together in the city and are easy to visit. We also dropped by Kitchener City Hall (which I actually quite like, except for the tower) and the new Architecture Building in central Galt, which is now known as Cambridge. Also shown are some great vases I bought in Waterloo.

  • Luminato 2007 (26 photos) - Pics of the visual arts displays that formed part of the Luminato festival.