Taddle Creek Park is a small but busy park at the southwest corner of Lowther Avenue and Bedford Road, in
The Annex
The Annex is a neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The traditional boundaries of the neighbourhood extend north to Dupont Street, south to Bloor Street, west to Bathurst Street (Toronto), Bathurst Street and east to Avenue Road, ...
area of Toronto.
Description and history
The park was created in 1976, on what had been the site of the home of
Nobel laureate
The Nobel Prizes (, ) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in th ...
Frederick Banting
Sir Frederick Grant Banting (November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon. For his co-discovery of insulin and its therapeutic potential, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physi ...
, and beside the home of
Beatrice Worsley
Beatrice Helen Worsley (18 October 1921 – 8 May 1972) was a Canadian computer scientist, the first woman in the country to work in that profession. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge with Maurice Wilkes as adviser, the firs ...
(the first female computer scientist in Canada). After extensive renovations, the park reopened in July 2011, with an avant-garde sculpture centrepiece by Ilan Sandler, created from of stainless steel rod, the approximate length of Taddle Creek.
The park has hosted two trees as a memorial to Florence Rosberg. it also has a sculpture by Ilan Sandler called ''The Vessel'', which was installed in 2011.
See also
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List of Toronto parks
The following is a list of the parks in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The appearance of Toronto's ravines was altered by floods caused by Hurricane Hazel in October 1954 shortly after the establishment of Metropolitan Toronto and many of ...
References
External links
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Parks in Toronto
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