City Running Tours Toronto

It's ba-a-a-a-ack! Our most popular group run, TorHAUNTo, returns for 2019, with two Tuesday evenings to choose from. Join us October 22nd or 29th for a light (but also kind of dark) 5k through downtown Toronto's past. ... Visit https://www.cityrunningtours.com/torontogroupruns#Haunted and use the code CRT10 to save 10%

Hey Friend, Do you like podcasts? Do you have 10 minutes every now and then, to get to know fascinating people and events from Torontos past? ... The Toronto File is my new show, taking the research Ive done for City Running Tours and expanding it into something you can enjoy at your own convenience. The first episode launched last night. I hope you like it!

Its ba-a-a-a-ack! Our most popular group run, TorHAUNTo, returns for 2019, with two Tuesday evenings to choose from. Join us October 22nd or 29th for a light (but also kind of dark) 5k through downtown Torontos past. ... Visit https://www.cityrunningtours.com/torontogroupruns#Haunted and use the code CRT10 to save 10%

HIDDEN TORONTO - $25 (CDN) Join City Running Tours on a 5 km / 3 mi dig through Old Torontos more colourful past, from an unmarked downtown graveyard that was still giving up bodies three years ago, to the very central spot where an enormous dead whale entertained visitors in the 19th century. Starting at Old City Hall, well pause 10 times to share hidden stories before finishing at Goose Island Brewhouse Toronto (the site of which has a fascinating history of its own). ... Were offering this next Tuesday, July 23rd and again the following Tuesday, July 30th. https://www.cityrunningtours.com/torontogroupruns#hidden for details

This is remarkable! Taken in 1946 from what would be about Queens Quay & York St today (more than a decade before the Gardiner Expressway), the Royal York Hotel (1929) and Union Station (1920) are clearly visible; Canada Life (1929) and Commerce Court (1930) are also easy to spot. Look how smoke stained the buildings were!... This came from City of Toronto Archives Twitter feed.

Where do Torontos crew leaders like to run?

"Since 2017 Toronto has added more technology jobs than the Bay Area; Washington, D.C.; New York City; and Seattle combined ..."

"Up to 75 per cent of people using Yonge here are pedestrians, and over the last 20 years, walking has doubled while driving has decreased by 17 per cent."

Our annual deep dive into Torontos colourful Irish History returns Saturday, March 9th. Fenians & Famine was the very first tour we offered in Toronto, and every year seems to uncover a few more fascinating details from the citys past. In addition to learning about the Irish who settled in the area (originally called the Township of Dublin), well also discuss the impacts of visits from the likes of a couple of the 19th centurys most compelling personalities, Charles Par...nell and ODonovan Rossa. There will NOT be a quiz at the end, however if you produce your Irish birth certificate or passport well pick up your first pint of Guinness. For more information, go to http://www.cityrunningtours.com/torontogroupruns#FF

" ...Toronto scenes, which include the Harveys on Jarvis and Gerrard Sts. with floating trays and drinks, and flying shopping carts at the Dufferin Mall... "

Thanks to everyone who joined Tuesday evenings annual TorHAUNTo Halloween run! 16 morbid tales in just 5k, leaving plenty of time for beer afterwards.

" ... unexplained footsteps in the attic, disembodied screams and maniacal laughter, sudden dips in temperature and a chilling incident where the house cat, Fluffy, had been flung against a wall by an unseen force... "

When tragedy occurs, its not just the mourners that get left behind. Old Toronto is rife with tales of spirits occupying buildings and public spaces. Nuns and politicians, husbands and jilted lovers, in hospitals, hotels and museums, well meet plenty in just 5k. Join me next Tuesday evening for the 2nd annual City Running Tours TorHAUNTo, starting at 7:00 p.m. outside the Hockey Hall of Fame. Just $20.00 reserves your spot. And if thats still not enough spirits for you, we...ll stop by Cest What afterwards and discuss what we may or may not have seen. Note this course differs slightly from last years, as Ive learned more stories and added a few new stops. Go to http://www.cityrunningtours.com/torontogroupruns and follow the links (click October 30 on the calendar that appears).

Tarontos was the French take on Tkaronto, an Indigenous word referring to the fishing weirs they had used for thousands of years

"While en route to a mission in the U.K., Banting was killed in a plane crash near Musgrave Harbour, N.L. He was 49."

Spanning 79.1 square kilometres, Rouge National Urban Park traces more than 10,000 years of human history. It includes some of Canadas oldest known Indigenous sites, some of the last remaining working farms in the Greater Toronto Area, Carolinian ecosystems, Torontos only campground, one of the regions largest marshes, a beach at Lake Ontario and amazing hiking opportunities.

"Doctors removed two of his ribs, his story went, and the German woman wept upon seeing that the man she had tried to kill was wearing a red cross on his arm and was a member of the medical corps."

"He also sent along a cheque for 10 for his sins, as compensation for all the times he had defrauded his neighbour of swine and other animals he shot when they wandered onto his estate."

A total of 8,000 square feet of sod will be laid out on the lanes normally meant for vehicles, Sunday, August 19th.

"So, have the locals come around to those big ol Canadian brunches? They were confused at first, Cristo-Williams admits... "

Very grateful to Visit Toronto for the special City Running Tours shout-out in the 2018 TORONTO Magazine, available free at tourist kiosks (I got mine at City Hall). The page devoted to running also includes 5 suggested routes, 5 shops to pick up gear and 10 recommended local races. Even if youre a local, there are plenty of interesting features throughout the publication that would likely surprise and interest you, from architecture to incubators.

"... The Big Ass Fan cools the whole building down using digital electricity, which according to a sign, moves as much air as 36 regular ceiling fans while using 75 per cent less energy."

He is the Canadian record-holder in the 24-hour road race at 257.093 km.

"Baskets are being filled with softball-sized grapefruits and heads of purple cauliflower. But theres one thing missing: price tags."

Southern Ontarios Tom Longboat was the dominant distance runner of his day.

Proud to share that for the second straight year (this being the second full year City Running Tours has been in Toronto) weve been awarded a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence. Thanks to everyone that has taken the time to leave a review. Were currently #6 of 115 outdoor activities in Toronto!

In the 1950s, he said, You should be doing X-rays of my work, because youll find things underneath.

Alsop "developed an obvious affection for this city and at one point opened an office here."

Good news for East Toronto runners!

The downtown campus addition is "expected to be the tallest mass timber and concrete hybrid building in North America."

The title may say "13," but 5 (five!) Toronto dates make up one epic entry on this remarkable list. The Stones love for Toronto really starts in 1977... but continues... We go into way more detail this Thursday, on our City Running Tours VINYL TORONTO Tour. Specially priced at just $25 for Canadian Music Week, this is the tour that will amaze you more than any other. So much incredible music history developed in this city.... Book now, at www.cityrunningtours.com/toronto

VINYL TORONTO Next Thursday, May 10th, City Running Tours is offering its VINYL TORONTO tour for just $25.00, to celebrate Canadian Music Week. The number of fascinating connections and remarkable events in Torontos musical past will amaze you. Did you know Alice Cooper and Frank Sinatra shot to stardom, largely because of what went down in Toronto? Or that Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin found their backing bands on Yonge Street? Did you know we ended the Beatles and saved the ...Stones? Theres so much more, including Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Madonna... its a whole lot of stories. Only 15 spots are available for this relaxed-pace, 10k spin through the past. Claim your spot at http://www.cityrunningtours.com/torontogroupruns#vinyl

Did you know the Red Barons cockpit is in Toronto? Baron Manfred von Richthofen was shot down 100 years ago today.

The weather this weekend didnt prevent an international crew of delegates to the Entrepreneurs Organization Global Leadership Conference from getting outside. Starting at 6:00 a.m. on consecutive days, we covered a 6.5km route covering everything from war & rebellion to the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix, while pausing to admire a Banksy. #CityRunningTours

Highlights include the Ladies Egg & Spoon Race, the Grannies Tug-of-War, the flying boat and the Grand Opera performing at Hanlans Point Stadium.

We really wanted to go to a city that has development momentum. This is an ideas competition, but it needs to be based in reality. We want to participate in real conversations about development. Toronto had all of that, and more.

Did you know Google Arts & Culture has examples of a few dozen sets of footwear from Torontos Bata Shoe Museum, including Elton Johns platforms, John Lennons Beatle boot and this pair of badass Canadian Platform boots from 1973?

"People often think that a clean slate is an easier thing to handle in design," he said. "In fact its not. Its much, much harder."