Fuzzy Boundaries

FB at the June 20th 2009 Railpath Parade: Bruce Ward and Kevin Putnam at the Railpath opening parade, starting under the Wallace Ave. bridge.
The friends of the West Toronto Railpath rallied a crowd on a rainy Saturday to welcome the first phase of the new linear park that spans the entire Western side of the [insert name here] neighbourhood. We owe this dedicated group a huge thanks for their effort to encourage the City of Toronto to build this amazing park at a cost of almost $6-million.

While the official opening is still a few months off, the freshly paved trail already offers a car-free cycle from Cariboo to Dundas through a sculptured landscape with hundreds of new native trees and plants.

The Railpath gathering was high-spirited despite the rain and provided a chance to chat about the Fuzzy Boundaries naming project with some who already knew about the effort and others just learning about it for the first time.

The rain also made an appearance at the 2nd Annual BIG On Bloor Festival. While local history buff Michael Monastyrskyj came better prepared than we did and lots of people stopped to look at his archival photo exhibit, the rain forced us to keep our photo display under-wraps and made it tough to sign-up for the FBI (that's Fuzzy Boundaries Information!) e-mail.

When the rain let up, the streets filled again and we talked about the naming project in front of Yasi's roadside eatery and the Perth/Dupont Community Garden tent until dinnertime. You can still join the FBI and our archival photo display of matching old and new photographs by Vic Gedris is on all summer at the Perth/Dupont branch of the Toronto Public Library.

FB at the June 20th 2009 BIG on Bloor Festival: Kevin Putnam speaking to people about the FB initiative during the BIG On Bloor festival.

FB at the June 20th 2009 BIG on Bloor Festival: Kevin Putnam speaks to local history buff Michael Monastyrskyj at the BIG on Bloor festival.

Photos by Vic Gedris.