Taking Stock - Rails to Regeneration

Explore a part of the city first shaped by rail and industry, not by neighbourhood life! This walk traces how rail infrastructure structured a landscape built for production - livestock, labour, and logistics - and how, over decades, it has been transformed through the reuse of employment and industrial lands, new housing, adapted heritage sites, and large scale redevelopment. Let’s read the city’s past and present to understand what regeneration really means in the Stockyards.

The walk will take place in the Stockyards area along St Clair Avenue West. It will begin at Stock Yards Village and continue west towards Symes Road through the surrounding neighbourhood. The route will then continue through the ‘big box’ shopping area south of St Clair Avenue West, heading toward West Toronto Street and Keele Street, before looping back to Stock Yards Village.