Not all trees make it to 100 – and most of the time, it’s because of structural issues that could have been fixed when they were younger. In 2021, Tree Trust stewarded a Red Maple planted in 2009 in memory of Art Gay. Thanks to corrective pruning, this decade-old tree Read more…
In 2021, Tyler Ganton from We Care Tree Care worked throughout the summer to restore six Tamaracks, relatively rare on the Island, to help extend their life. These native Tamarack (Larix laricina) trees on the island wereplanted on much higher ground than most. We lost 95% of the Tamarack (Larix Read more…
Rose Wilson has been living on the Toronto Islands since 1953. Her husband Ken was working for the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) back when the Commission also ran the ferries to the Islands and maintained the grounds. It was a long commute from Markham Road where they were living, so Read more…