{"id":3462,"date":"2008-08-13T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/08\/13\/heritage-toronto-walking-tours-this-weekend-cabbagetown-people-and-the-royal-alexandra-theatre-and-its-neighbourhood\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T22:23:10","slug":"heritage-toronto-walking-tours-this-weekend-cabbagetown-people-and-the-royal-alexandra-theatre-and-its-neighbourhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/08\/13\/heritage-toronto-walking-tours-this-weekend-cabbagetown-people-and-the-royal-alexandra-theatre-and-its-neighbourhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Toronto walking tours this weekend:  Cabbagetown People, and the Royal Alexandra Theatre and Its Neighbourhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2240\/2184848104_5af3a62782.jpg\" height=\"332\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW!  Cabbagetown People:  Discoveries of Remarkable Lives<br \/>\nSaturday, August 16 &#8211; 1:30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Leaders: <\/strong>Cabbagetown Preservation Association<br \/>\n<\/em><em> <strong>Start Point: <\/strong>NE corner of Parliament and Winchester Streets<br \/>\n<\/em><em> <strong>Finish Point: <\/strong>Parliament St and Lancaster Ave<br \/>\n<\/em><em> <strong>Duration: <\/strong>Approx. 1.5 to 2 hours<br \/>\n<strong>Walk Difficulty: <\/strong>Park grounds, average walk on sidewalks<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Since its beginnings in the 1830s as an immigrant reception neighbourhood, Cabbagetown has been home to an amazing group of personalities. Hear the stories of some of those that have been active in the arts and sciences, politics, business, architecture and social movements.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Royal Alexandra Theatre and Its Neighbourhood<br \/>\nSunday, August 17 &#8211; 11:00 AM<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Leaders: <\/strong>Janet Langdon, Christyna Prokipchuk<\/em><br \/>\n<em> <strong>Start Point: <\/strong>Simcoe Park, just west of Front and Simcoe Streets, near the CBC Broadcast Centre<\/em><br \/>\n<em> <\/em><em> <strong>Finish Point: <\/strong>Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King St W<\/em><br \/>\n<em> <strong>Duration: <\/strong>Approx. 1.5 to 2 hours<\/em><br \/>\n<em> <strong>Walk Difficulty: <\/strong>Average walk on sidewalks<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Royal Alexandra Theatre, anchor of the Theatre District, celebrated its 100th birthday in 2007. Hear the story of the theatre and explore the multi-layered history of the surrounding neighbourhood. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spacing is pleased to be the promoting sponsor of the Heritage Toronto walking tours.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metrix_feet\/\">Metrix X <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW! Cabbagetown People: Discoveries of Remarkable Lives Saturday, August 16 &#8211; 1:30 PM Leaders: Cabbagetown Preservation Association Start Point: NE corner of Parliament and Winchester Streets Finish Point: Parliament St and Lancaster Ave Duration: Approx. 1.5 to 2 hours Walk Difficulty: Park grounds, average walk on sidewalks Since its beginnings in the 1830s as an<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/08\/13\/heritage-toronto-walking-tours-this-weekend-cabbagetown-people-and-the-royal-alexandra-theatre-and-its-neighbourhood\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Heritage Toronto walking tours this weekend:  Cabbagetown People, and the Royal Alexandra Theatre and Its Neighbourhood&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[149,307,8743,1548,9994,19],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spacing","tag-cabbagetown","tag-cbc","tag-janet-langdon","tag-the-heritage","tag-theatre-district","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Heritage Toronto walking tours this weekend: Cabbagetown People, and the Royal Alexandra Theatre and Its Neighbourhood  - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/08\/13\/heritage-toronto-walking-tours-this-weekend-cabbagetown-people-and-the-royal-alexandra-theatre-and-its-neighbourhood\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Heritage Toronto walking tours this weekend: Cabbagetown People, and the Royal Alexandra Theatre and Its Neighbourhood  - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NEW! 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