Results tagged “torontodominioncentre”

For some, one of the highlights of the holiday season is taking the opportunity to wind down the year with a night on the town accompanied by a loved one or someone that will, fingers crossed, soon be the most cherished person in your life. The outing may include a couple of drinks, a fine meal, and a silent prayer that your partner won't notice that you have two left feet on the dance floor. If you visited The Fifty Fourth restaurant atop the Toronto-Dominion Centre back in the late 1970s, you would have tossed in a fine view of the city and music from one of the country's best vibraphonists.

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

The Leslie Street Spit is a man-made stretch of land that juts into Lake Ontario. A good chunk of it was built from the debris of old bank buildings that had been razed to make way for projects like the Toronto Dominion Centre in the 1970s. The Leslie Spit is also the breeding ground for all kinds of migratory songbirds. It's like our feathered friends are dancing on the graves of the structures they used to fly into! Speaking of which, this Saturday, Toronto and Region Conservation holds its annual Spring Bird Festival at Tommy Thompson Park. If you think that the city's winged world begins with pigeons and ends with those little brown birds that eat garbage, then the Festival is a great way to connect with avian life. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. with an Early Bird (get it?) hike at 7 a.m. Don't forget your binoculars.

With Labour Day having come and gone, and autumn's chill making too many appearances, Toronto's waterfront is now just a memory of a summer fling. Who are we kidding... even during the summer the waterfront leaves much to be desired.