High Park

This guide to High Park in Toronto follows John Howard, the surveyor who turned his hilltop sheep farm into the city's park under one condition — that it stay free to the public, forever — in exchange for a small city pension. It also traces his fixation on the historic ironwork railing from St Paul's Cathedral in London, lost when the ship carrying it home sank in the St Lawrence River, and how far he went trying to recover it. Listen for what he made of it near Colborne Lodge, his old cottage on the hill.