Isabella Valancy Crawford Park

Very pretty, especially in the winter time!

Fun and entertaining

If you have read my reviews you know I am a stickler for parks vs. parkettes, and Isabella Valancy Crawford Park is definately a parkette. I've gone through this parkette many times thinking it was more of a garden than a parkette, but it's still well maintained and there is a sign hidden in the corner of the parkette. If you see the sign then you know you have arrived. A Richard Trus review

Small park just near CN tower. Park entrance from front st. Can walk from here to roger center and repleys

Urban

Nice little park. Very secure from the go tracks below

Who is this park named after?Considered among our finest poets, Isabella Valancy Crawford was born in Ireland and came to Canada with her parents about 1858. After settling first in Paisley, Ontario, the family lived later in Lakefield and Peterborough. As a young woman Isabella became fascinated by backwoods life and Indian legends. Following her father's death, she and her mother moved to Toronto. There they subsisted on her meagre earnings from light verse and 'formula fiction' that appeared in Canadian and American newspapers. One privately-printed book of serious poetry, 'Old Spookeses Pass, Malcom's Katie and Other Poems' appeared before her untimely death at 57 John Street. Full recognition came later, however, with the publication of her collected poems, which were admired for their evocative images of the lush and sparkling wilderness.

Lovely hideaway!