Trillium Park
Waterfront park of rolling landforms, marker trees and granite bluffs built over a former parking lot.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Trillium Park in Toronto starts at three young trees bent twice into a zigzag near the entrance, a deliberate echo of an old First Nations trail-marking technique. It traces the site's four decades as an Ontario Place parking lot, and the three years the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation spent shaping what replaced the asphalt after the site closed in 2012. A listening tip: walk into the ravine and look at the carved stone walls around you.
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