Doris McCarthy's Fool's Paradise sits atop the Scarborough Bluffs. Its name is owed to McCarthy's mother, who considered the estate purchase an unnecessary extravagance. A revered artist known for her landscape paintings, McCarthy lived and worked in the house at Fool's Paradise and eventuall donated it to the Ontario Heritage Trust to become a future retreat for generations of aspiring artists. The beautiful home on the 12 acre protected estate yields beautiful views from one of Toronto's greatest vistas.
Along the Shore examines the Toronto waterfront, past and present, through the lens of four lakefront communities and districts ? the Scarborough shore (including the Bluffs), the Beach, the Island, and the Lakeshore (New Toronto, Mimico, Humber Bay, and Long Branch). Each retains a direct and immediate connection with Lake Ontario and the natural world.
In Margaret Avison?s new poems, little pleasures are bound up with larger ones. Her slightest subjects ? beloved Toronto parks with their population of oaks, firs, squirrels, dogs, kids, even ants, and the minutest sighs of her contemporary urban soundscape ? all have their being within an immense composition that calls and hauls us to a largeness, a category-breaking ?always unthinkable? beyond.
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This particular tour of Toronto's Waterfront takes you to Scarborough Bluffs and the surrounding area. A spectacular geologial wonder of 12,000 years of sedimentary layers, these bluffs almost seem out of place along Lake Ontario's shores, where they break off at the water's edge.
