HïMY SYeD🟩Apr 29

Jane's Walk Toronto Launch Event

Photos captured on Tuesday, April 28, 2026

At the STACKT market Clubhouse

28 Bathurst Street, Downtown Toronto

Chief Planner for The City of Toronto as well as the Deputy Mayor attended.

They spoke and shared their enthusiasm for this year's festival with the assembled Jane's Walk Leaders and Festival Organizers.

I video recorded them, InshAllah I can edit and post them soon-ish; because of Mic issues, the audio needs some TLC first.

The Toronto Metropolitan Area has 154 Jane's Walks this festival weekend, May 1-3, 2026.

I'm leading three different walks, one on each day at different times and different places around Toronto.

You can find my walk listings in my mastodon timeline, a few posts back.

Jane's Walks are Free. All of them!

Just show up at the Walk Start locations at the listed start times.

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HïMY SYeD🟩Apr 25

The History of Canadian Muslims in Toronto Jane’s Walk - Sunday May 3 2026

This Jane’s Walk explains how 3rd, 4th, & 5th Generation Muslim Torontonians helped build our city.

Walk Stops include :

• Toronto’s FIRST Halal Butcher Shop – Roncesvalles Village
• Jami Mosque – Toronto’s Second Islamic Centre and its national significance
• The little known history of The Albanian Muslim Society of Toronto – The pivotal role of its founder, Reggie Assim, Toronto’s First Imam
• The Dundas Street Mosque – The City’s First Masjid

ALSO on this year’s Jane’s Walk :

• History of the First Synagogue in the old/former city of West Toronto

WALK LEADER : HïMY SYeD

DATE : Sunday May 3 2026

START TIME : 2:30 p.m.

WALK START LOCATION : Dundas-Roncesvalles Peace Garden (2201 Dundas Street West at Roncesvalles Avenue opposite Boustead Avenue), TORONTO

http://30Masjids.ca/30-more-janes-walk-the-history-of-canadian-muslims-in-toronto-sunday-may-3-2026/

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HïMY SYeD🟩Apr 25

World Labyrinth Day – Sunnyside Jane’s Walk – Saturday May 2 2026 – Toronto

First Saturday in May is World Labyrinth Day!

Celebrate WLD 2026 by walking Canada’s largest, most complex, Octagon Labyrinth in Budapest Park!

We’ll then continue west and see two more Labyrinths along Sunnyside.

Learn how the City of Labyrinths Project has applied Urban Acupuncture, used Tactical Urbanism, and shared Giant Outstallation Art all around Toronto over 25+ years.

This walk concludes at Sheldon Lookout, beside Humber Bay Arch Bridge.

DATE : Saturday May 2 2026

START TIME : 4:00 p.m.

WALK LEADER : HïMY SYeD, Founder & Project Co-ordinator, Toronto City of Labyrinths Project

WALK START LOCATION : Budapest Park, Beside the Dinosaurs, 1575 Lake Shore Blvd West, Sunnyside, TORONTO

Look for HïMY holding Orange “Walk With Us” Jane’s Walk sign.

http://Labyrinths.ca/world-labyrinth-day-sunnyside-janes-walk-saturday-may-2-2026/

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HïMY SYeD🟩Apr 25

"The 11 Books of Jane Jacobs: All-in-One Jane’s Walk" - Friday May 1 2026 - Toronto

This will be 1 Jane’s Walk covering only the most vital and timely ideas from each of Jane Jacobs’ 11 books.

If you’ve never read any of Jane’s books, or missed a few, or want a crash course or refresher in the ideas and writings of Jane Jacobs’…

OR

You are simply curious why Labyrinths and Mazes were so important to Jane’s thinking on Cities and Neighbourhoods, then this Jane’s Walk on the evening before World Labyrinth Day 2026 is for you!

DATE : Friday May 1 2026

START TIME : 5:45 p.m.

WALK LEADER : HïMY SYeD

WALK START LOCATION : Ed & Anne Mirvish Parkette, 843 Bathurst Street, TORONTO.

HïMY will be holding Orange Jane’s Walk Sign standing in the Greenspace inside the Streetcar Loop, immediately north of Bathurst Subway Station main entrance.

http://Labyrinths.ca/the-11-books-of-jane-jacobs-all-in-one-janes-walk-friday-may-1-2026/

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HïMY SYeD🟩May 3, 2025

"The History of Canadian Muslims in Toronto"

I am leading this Jane's Walk on Sunday Afternoon, May 4 2025.

We start at 3:00 p.m.

We meet at the Roncesvalles Peace Garden,

Where Dundas Street Forks with Roncesvalles Avenue in West End Toronto.

This Jane’s Walk explains how 3rd, 4th, & 5th Generation Muslim Torontonians helped build our city.

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HïMY SYeD🟩May 3, 2025

"Sterling To | Morrow" Jane's Walk

This Friday evening Toronto Jane's Walk had 165 People at walk start!

Walk Leader, Sam Carter-Shamai, shared knowledge of upcoming changes to this Toronto Neighbourhood.

OR NOT.

And what should be kept, and might be lost.

Time well spent joining this first of my Toronto Jane's Walk for 2025.

I brought my JW sign, holding it up from start til end.

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HïMY SYeD🟩May 4, 2023

World Labyrinth Day: Toronto City of Labyrinths Jane's Walk

https://www.JanesWalkFestivalTO.com/items/worldlabyrinthdaytorontocity

Saturday May 6 2023

2 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Walk Start Location :

Dovercourt Public School at 228 Bartlett Avenue

Toronto has more public Labyrinths than any other city in the world.

On this World Labyrinth Day,

Join this Jane's Walk to learn how childhood footprints in the snow became an ongoing multi-city Placemaking Project.

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2023 Jane's Walks

Toronto has more public Labyrinths than any other city in the world. That's because one day while walking to and from Dovercourt Public School, eight year old HïMY SYeD began to intentionally make interconnecting paths in the snow in Dovercourt Park. On this World Labyrinth Day, which is observed every year on the First Saturday in May, join this Jane's Walk to learn how childhood footprints in the snow became an ongoing multi-city Placemaking Project. Also on this Jane's Walk : • Why Labyrinths are used in Montessori Schools • How Labyrinths aid Child Development + Decision Making • Urban Acupuncture • Tactical Urbanism • Toronto's NEWEST Labyrinth - Designed as a Giant Snowflake

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HïMY SYeD🟩May 4, 2023

World Labyrinth Day - Medicine Walk

https://www.JanesWalkFestivalTO.com/items/worldlabyrinthdaymedicinewalk

Saturday May 6 2023

9 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

AND

4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Walk Start Location :

Wells Hill Park, North East Corner

Nearest Public Transit :

St. Clair West TTC Station

Walk Leader will be wearing green Man In The Maze Labyrinth design shirt while holding Orange "Walk With Us" Jane's Walk sign

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2023 Jane's Walks

Did you learn about the Two Row Wampum in School? How about the Dish With One Spoon Wampum? Or what Wampums are in the first place? And why the words Ancestral, Traditional, Unceded are not equal under the law? Did you know the First Saturday in May is World Labyrinth Day? We'll learn all that & more by visiting three Toronto parks to walk: • Dish With One Spoon Labyrinth • Toronto's Largest Medicine Wheel which is also a Labyrinth • Man In The Maze Labyrinth Artwork & motifs within each Labyrinth tells a story. Sharing & hearing stories can become medicine.

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HïMY SYeD🟩🕌30 Masjids in 30 Days of Ramadan 2023May 4, 2023

The History of Canadian Muslims Jane's Walk

Sunday May 7 2023

Starts : SW Corner, Annettte & Runnymede

Time : 4 p.m. ( to 7 p.m. )

This Jane’s Walk explains how 3rd, 4th, & 5th Generation Muslim Torontonians helped build our city, and our country.

This Jane’s Walk will visit at least five locations in The Junction & High Park neighbourhoods to reveal that history.

https://www.JanesWalkFestivalTO.com/thehistoryofcanadianmuslims

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The History of Canadian Muslims | Janeswalk

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HïMY SYeD🟩May 4, 2023

"The 11 Books of Jane Jacobs All in One Jane's Walk - With HiMY SYeD"

https://www.JanesWalkFestivalTO.com/items/the11booksofjanejacobsallinonejaneswalk

Friday May 5 2023

Start Time : 5:45 p.m.

Walk Start Location :

Masaryk Park, 212 Cowan Avenue, South of Queen Street West, Parkdale, West End Toronto

Walk Leader will be holding Orange Jane's Walk Sign standing in middle of Parkdale Labyrinth in Masaryk Park

Walk End Location :

Victoria Memorial Square Park

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2023 Jane's Walks

Jane Jacobs published at least 11 books during her life, and wrote so much more... • Constitutional chaff; rejected suggestions of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, with explanatory argument Compiled by Jane Butzner, (1941) • The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) • The Economy of Cities (1969) • The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle over Sovereignty (Massey Lecture, 1980) • Cities and the Wealth of Nations (1984) • The Girl on the Hat (Children's Book Illustrated by Karen Reczuch) (1990) • Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (1992) • A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece (1995) • The Nature of Economies (2000) • Toronto: Considering Self-government (2000) • Dark Age Ahead (2004) During the Centenary "Jane 100" Jane's Walk year, HiMY SYeD decided to lead one Jane's Walk for each of Jane Jacobs' 11 Books. The main ideas in each of those books was illustrated and understood from walk stop to walk stop using neighbourhood icons, landmarks, examples, architecture and things hiding in plain sight. This year, instead of 11 Different Jane's Walk for 11 Different Books, there will be 11 unique walk stop locations plus several smaller walk pauses starting in Parkdale, passing by Ontario Place, until we wind up this Jane's Walk inside Victoria Memorial Square Park. This will be 1 Jane's Walk covering only the most vital and timely ideas from each of Jane Jacobs' books. If you've never read any of Jane's books, or missed a few, or want a crash course or refresher in the ideas and writings of Jane Jacobs'... Or are simply curious why Labyrinths and Mazes were so important to Jane's thinking on Cities and Neighbourhoods, then this is the Jane's Walk for you!

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