The iconic Maple Leaf Forever tree at Maple Cottage will gain new life after falling over during a wind storm. The city is looking for ideas to repurpose the leftover wood from the tree on Laing ...
The iconic Maple Leaf Forever tree, felled by last summer’s windstorm, is one step closer to being repurposed into several large-scale works of art. This Saturday, March 8 at Evergreen Brick Works, ...
A crowd gathered in front of a tree felled during Friday night’s thunderstorm to take pictures and collect a leaf or two as a memento and even mourn, for this was no ordinary tree. Perhaps 150 years ...
It doesn’t matter that historians dispute that the Leslieville tree that was toppled in a windstorm in July 2013 was the one that inspired Alexander Muir in 1867 to write his “Maple Leaf Forever,” ...
During a recent weekend visit with our son and daughter-in-law in Toronto's Leslieville neighbourhood, I asked whether they'd care to join me for a Sunday morning stroll to the corner of Laing Street ...
After a windstorm toppled the Toronto tree thought to have inspired the Maple Leaf Forever, an 1867 song that cemented the leaf as an enduring Canadian symbol, some worried history might die alongside ...
A tree that inspired an iconic Canadian song, which was felled during a storm last summer, was given new life Saturday. A sapling taken from the tree that was believed to have inspired Canadian poet ...
Author Shel Silverstein’s classic children’s tale of 1964, The Giving Tree, tells of a lifelong relationship between a boy and a tree. As a youngster, the boy makes crowns from its leaves, swings from ...
Ken Jewett, founder of Maple Leaves Forever Foundation, joined NCC CEO Mark Kristmanson and chair of the NCC’s board of directors Russell Mills to plant a maple tree in Major’s Hill Park overlooking ...