Events Guide: Tree planting, Bixi bikesharing, Human River, and Local Flavour

WHAT: Taylor Creek Park Tree Planting in the Forks
WHEN: October 18, 10 am – 12 pm
WHERE: Meet in the Taylor Creek Park parking lot

Friends of the Don East have been working along the banks of Taylor Creek since 2007.  Come down and help them restore and expand the riparian landscape of the Forks.

Visit www.fode.ca for more information.

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WHAT: Bixi bikesharing visits Toronto
WHEN: October 24, 10 am – 12 pm
WHERE: Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Ave
CORRECTION: demo at southeast corner of Bloor and Spadina

Montréal’s new bikeshare system, Bixi, is having a demo in Toronto where you can try out the system and get jealous. Hosted by Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation, Community Bicycle Network, and the Toronto Cyclists Union.

An annual membership with Bixi costs $80 and gives you access to over 300 bike stations around the city, go check out the demo for more info.

Visit www.bixi.ca for more information.

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WHAT: Human River’s Urban Water Cycle
WHEN: October 19, 1 pm – 5 pm
WHERE: NW corner of St. Clair and Humewood

Human River is a campaign by the Toronto Public Space Committee that sets out to remember Garrison Creek, an old waterway that used to run from around St. Clair West to Lake Ontario between Bathurst and Dufferin streets. The creek was formed after the last ice age and was the largest stream between the Humber and Don Valley rivers, but it was buried in the early 1900s after it became polluted from local developments.

The streets along the Garrison Creek route will indeed become a human river as cyclists clad in blue ride from the creek’s old source at St. Clair to where it passed by Fort York. After the bike parade you can learn more about buried waterways from Toronto’s past as well as check out photography of Toronto’s sewer system by urban explorer Michael Cook.

Visit www.humanriver.ca for more information.

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WHAT: Local Flavour: Eating in Toronto, 1830 – 1955
WHEN: October 25 to January 11, 2009
WHERE: TD Gallery, Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street

Explore over 100 years of Toronto culinary history, from early cookbooks and appliances to war rationing, grocery stores, and manufactured food.

The exhibit features some of the Toronto Reference Library’s collection of turn-of-the-century Toronto restaurant menus, canned food labels, cookbooks,  as well as photos of restaurants, markets, and taverns.

Hours are; Monday to Thursday, 9:30 am to 8:30 pm; Friday, 9:30 am to 5:30 pm; Saturday, 9:00 am to 5:00
pm; Sunday, 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm.

Visit www.torontopubliclibrary.ca for more information.

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photo from fode.ca