Audio Walking Tour
Tour Guests: Eric McLuhan joins us once again to tell us about the McLuhan family’s first home in Toronto at 91 St. Joseph Street, and a former student of McLuhan’s, B.W. Powewill explain the significance in naming this street Marshall McLuhan Way.
McLuhan connection: The are many points on St. Joseph street that were significant in Marshall McLuhan’s life. This is the site of McLuhan’s first home. He was also a religious man and frequented St. Basil’s quite regularly. This patch of St. Joseph street between Bay and Queen’s Park, has also been renamed Marshall McLuhan Way.
Directions: Nora will direct you from the corner of St. Joseph and Bay. Once you are at the church, feel free to explore the surrounding area. Perhaps take a stroll along the path that runs beside the church into a parkette. We recommend listening to the mp3 there. Nora will direct you when it’s time to walk back down to St. Joseph Street. At the end of this mp3 you will be walking west toward Queen’s Park Crescent Road.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:37 — 7.9MB)
Photos
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- Courtesy of Flickr user: somecanukchick
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- Courtesy of St. Michael’s College, John M. Kelly Library
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- Courtesy of U of T Archives/Robert Lansdale Photography
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- Courtesy of flickr user: Sssteve.o
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- Photo by Carlos Bono of Havana, Cuba; Courtesy of St. Michael’s College, John M. Kelly Library
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- Courtesy of St. Michael’s College, John M. Kelly Library
