Welcome to the Marshall McLuhan Walking Tour, with Nora Young as your guide. Together you and Nora will be exploring McLuhan’s Toronto and hearing interviews with those closest to one of Canada’s greatest thinkers.
There are six stops on the tour, and you can explore them by clicking the links on the left. Click on the photo of McLuhan to return to this main page.
If you’re not in the city, you can still join us on our sonic adventure. We’ve got an online map and photo galleries to accompany the MP3s of the tour, and you can follow along digitally. Gee, it’s almost like we’re a global village or something!
Smartphone Version
Thanks to Brian Sutherland, you can explore the McLuhan Walking Tour using your mobile device. Brian’s created an augmented reality layer for the smartphone application Layer. Simply download the Layar application (available for iPhone, Android, and some Nokia and Blackberry phones), then follow this link on your phone (or search for “McLuhan” within the Layar app).
MP3 Downloads
You can right-click and save the following MP3 files to your computer, and/or transfer them to your portable MP3 player:
- Philosopher’s Walk (MP3)
- Royal Ontario Museum (MP3)
- University of Toronto Press (MP3)
- A Space (MP3)
- St. Basil’s Church (MP3)
- The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology (Coach House) (MP3)
You can also download a printable PDF tour guide.
Map
View The Marshall McLuhan Walking Tour in a larger map
Legal Disclaimer
By taking this tour you are absolving CBC, the University of Toronto, and all other project partners of any responsibility in the event that you harm yourself or are harmed by others on this tour. You may take this tour only with the express understanding that no one involved in this project can be held legally liable in the event that you suffer any damage or injuries as a result of taking this tour.
Keep your ears with Nora, your eyes open and feel free to double-knot your shoelaces.
Project Partners
Special thanks for this tour goes to The Faculty of Information McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology (UofT) current Director, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand. For full McLuhan100 events and activities, visit www.mcluhan100.ca
The Marshall McLuhan Walking Tour was written and produced by radio enthusiast and journalist Sandra Ferrari.
We did it! Me and one of my favourites spent our Saturday with Nora and McLuhan. Totally delightful, entirely quirky, and made me fall in love with Toronto a little bit all over again . . . all who worked on this worthwhile project should be proud of their efforts and know that it made for an enlightening, change the way you see things, kinda Saturday!
THANKS!!!
This was an informative, fun podcast tour with wonderful interviews from those who knew McLuhan well. Congratulations to Spark for creating such an evocative, creative resource. I learned a lot!
Nora, thank you so much for this. I work in this neighbourhood and I often walk these distances, but I've never connected them with Marshal!
Fun and immensely enjoyable. Thanks for the tour!