Evergreen Brick Works

Had a lovely visit to the Brick Works with an old friend last week (she took the picture of me).

What a lovely place. A fine mix of grungy, modern and ecological. Every little detail is thought out with new and innovative ideas toward sustainability and community development.

We walked from St. Clair station, taking, at a pretty comfortable pace, about 45 minutes to an hour. The walk, at first a bridge over David A Belfour Park, into a residential area, and through Moore Park Ravine to the Don Valley Brick Works Park.

Built on the remains of an old brick factory, the place is a bit of a sanctuary from the don valley parkway, although you can still hear a bit of a whirr of traffic. It sits on top and beside a swamp, with a nice path that they've laid out beside it. What is, in fact, the difference between a swamp and a bog? And a marsh, for that matter.

Anyway, the location is lovely and the place for some quite ritzy events as well as some more grassroots and not-for-profit programmes. They have a great website, check it out here.

It's much closer to Sherbourne station, but I highly recommend the walk down the valley. You can take a bus from St. Clair to avoid the lesser nice part of the walk.



Evergreen Brick Works logo from their website.