6. Town Hall Square / Mist Garden - 48 Yorkville Avenue & 25 Yorkville Avenue

Town Hall Square park is a nod to the former village of Yorkville and its original Town Hall, once located a few dozen meters away on Yonge Street. Designed by Janet Rosenberg Studio, a Toronto landscape architecture firm, the park was built over a parking garage belonging to the adjacent condominium and is meant to evoke a formal French parterre garden with its rows of trees and geometric patterns.

Walk east past the Yorkville library branch to the firehall and look up at the façade to see the original coat of arms that was found on the old Town Hall. The symbols on it – a beer barrel, brick mold, jack plane, anvil and sheep’s head – represent the professions of the councillors at the time.

Next door to the fire hall is Mist Garden, a park designed by Nak Design and Claude Cormier. Small shrubs create a rose shape and make for a contemplative short walk. The rose theme continues on the adjacent wall with an artwork by Montreal sculptor Linda Covit that produces mist every 10 minutes during the summertime.