August 2021 - Toronto ON
Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme.
Toronto ON
Click here for a history of Toronto lane naming and a list of other lanes with neighbourhood descriptions. That post is a work in progress, and gets updated frequently.
Since I had done a way, Sherlock Holmes Way, last week I got to wondering what the difference was between a way and a lane, they look the same to me.
Way — A side street off a road.Lane — A narrow road, often in a rural area. The City of Toronto has numerous rear and back lanes that are not legal streets.
WHITE SQUIRREL WAY
Trinity Bellwoods Park, is said to be the home of a white squirrel.
White populations of eastern grey squirrels have cropped up here and there across North America, with some towns celebrating their rare animals and making them into tourist attractions.
White populations of eastern grey squirrels have cropped up here and there across North America, with some towns celebrating their rare animals and making them into tourist attractions.
On one fateful evening in August 2014, a white squirrel was spotted dangling by its teeth from a power line near Trinity Bellwoods Park, tiny paws stiffly outstretched.
A photo began circulating on social media leading many to believe that the legend of the white squirrel had ended in tragedy. We now know that there are more white squirrels in the city, but every time one is spotted (dead or alive) it’s a momentous event.
The special creature is a motif in Trinity Bellwoods' lore, so much so that the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s (CAMH) Therapeutic Art Program commissioned a six-foot-tall sculpture of a white squirrel in the new TD Commons at Ossington and Queen.
White Squirrel Cafe, across from Trinity Bellwoods.
This mural appears to pay homage to the Queen and quite possibly the famous white squirrel who lived at Trinity Bellwoods Park, directly in the direction of where his colourful laser vision is pointed. It is on the side of the Queen West Animal Hospital painted by Electric Coffin.
The squirrel's kaleidoscopic eyes keep a watchful eye over the passersby, as it sits on a traditional Lovebot heart. It is at the end of Trinity Bellwoods.
A little further along and you can stop at Squirly's.
Over in Little Italy in Eulcid laneway is this mural with white squirrels by Karen Roberts. I took this in 2019.
