Trinity Bellwoods Park
Leafy downtown park built over a buried creek ravine, with hidden foundations of a vanished Gothic college beneath its lawns.
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This guide to Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto opens with Bishop John Strachan sailing to England in 1850, furious that religion had been banned from Toronto's only university, to beg a royal charter for a school of his own. He bought twenty acres along Garrison Creek and raised Gothic-towered Trinity College here by 1852. You'll hear how the college's fortunes turned within half a century, and what the city later did with the creek beneath this ground. Walk toward Queen Street to see what still marks the spot.
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