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Ravines and urban forests are one of the natural wonders of Toronto. They cut deep through the city while urban life carries on above them. They offer Torontonians many kilometres of natural paths and a way to stay connected to nature's diversity.
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.... The Beltline Trail is a 9 kilometre ( 5.6 mile ) long cycling and walking rail trail in Toronto, Ontario. The trail reuses old railway space which ran from 1892 to 1988. It consists of three sections, the York Beltline Trail, the Kay Gardner Beltline Park, and the Ravine Beltline Trail. Built on the former Toronto Belt Line Railway, the linear park passes through the neighborhoods of Rosedale, Moore Park, Forest Hill, Chaplin Estates, and Fairbank.
I should have taken a photo of the sign in the ticket booth window: "no Centre Island ferries until April 2010" - seems so far away!
We started at the Starbucks at Spadina & Lonsdale (the black dot on the map), headed NW through Cedarvale Park, north to the Belt Line and followed it through Russell Hill Parkette, Forest Hill Road Parkette, then cut through Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, down through David A. Balfour Park, west to West Dupont Parkette, up through Roycroft Park and Winston Churchill Park, and back up Spadina to the start/end point. My GPS data logger says we covered about 22km.
We started at Yonge & St.Clair; went south through David A Balfour Park, down to the Brickworks, up through Chorley Park and Moore Park Ravine, and then finally through Mt.Pleasant Cemetery to end up back at our start point.
The route, according to my GPS data logger, was a total of 10.7km
James Fluke was born in County Down, Northern Ireland in 1824 and came to Canada with his mother sometime prior to 1829. In 1844 he is listed as a merchant in Williamsburg (now Blackstock), Cartwright Township, Canada West (now Ontario).
He was a militia captain in the 3rd Company, Cartwright Volunteers, 45th Battalion, West Durham Regiment.
[source: Mount Pleasant website]