Toronto Botanical Garden
Themed contemporary gardens beside a ravine estate once transformed by a private rockery and waterwheel.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Toronto Botanical Garden traces the land back to Rupert Edwards, a paint-company founder who bought this overgrown mill property along Wilket Creek in 1944 wanting, in his words, room to move and breathe. You'll hear how he dammed the creek to power a waterwheel just to water his flowers, carved out a private golf course, and hauled in over four hundred tons of stone for one of the largest rock gardens attempted in Canada. It follows a decade of that private obsession as the city's suburbs began creeping toward his gate.
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