Architecture Groups Toronto

Toronto's Art Deco 1929-1939: VOLUME 1 and 2 (SPECIAL EXTENDED TOUR)

\*\***The Toronto History Walks Yearly Pass is available. Get it now for $125.00 for 1 year of unlimited tours, email** **torontohistorywalks@gmail.com** **for more information or for signing up!\*\*** \*\* **Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket amount when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:** **torontohistorywalks@gmail.com** Art Deco is all around us. Streamlined Modern or Art Modern are two other fascinating ways to say the same thing. Whichever way you plan on saying it, Art Deco buildings tell a rich story of optimism and positivity during one of the most darkest decades in history, the great depression of the 1930s! This walking tour explores our built environment of our downtown core. Toronto Stock Exchange built in 1937, along with the Royal York Hotel and the Canada Permanent Trust Company are prime examples. But others line Spadina Avenue during the challenging years of the depression, but also during the tensions which were bubbling in the Garment Industry. Art Deco buildings were centre stage! These buildings tell a story that goes beyond style into the heart of the Toronto story itself! Built at the height of the roaring 1920s and 1930s, the bubble was about to burst however, and the depression was just settling in. But a new style would set the tone, and it was called Art Deco! Toronto built some of its most enduring buildings, and left a built legacy of Art Deco during the 1930s which should be treasured and protected. Losing any of these treasures would surly be a loss to the community. They tell a rich and inviting story about the growth of Canada, and Toronto! This walking tour is for all walking levels. Please dress for the season, and hope to see you there. Please meet under the **clock tower** of the Queens Quay Terminal at 207 Queens Quay West on the south side just west of York Street! We end on Spadina and Richmond Street! This tour has a ticket price of $15.00 per person. \*\* **Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket amount when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:** **torontohistorywalks@gmail.com**

Historic Churches of Toronto (NEW SERIES FOR 2026)

**The Toronto History Walks Yearly Pass is available. Get it now for $125.00 for 1 year of unlimited tours, email** [torontohistorywalks@gmail.com](http://torontohistorywalks@gmail.com%2A%2A/) **for more information or for signing up!** **Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket amount when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:** [torontohistorywalks@gmail.com](http://torontohistorywalks@gmail.com%2A%2A/) **This new series of 10 walks explores Toronto and its historic churches. It is re-designed and ready to go! And we start with Parkdale.** The history of any modern city is fascinating, but the history of religion and the individual churches tell a gripping story that runs parallel to the rise of the city. Toronto and its churches tell that story in great detail, and what society valued most, and how it changed, and how we evolved. Each church was at the core of the district and the history of the neighbourhood reflected that. The church was the gathering spot in times of trouble and in times of celebration. But what did these churches play in the history of "Toronto the Good?" On this walk 1 of the series, let's take a walk around Parkdale and explore some of the old existing churches and discuss the roles they played in the development of the Floral Suburb. Some churches are gone, but not forgotten. Others have been lovingly renovated and restored, and they still grace our streets today. Our next walk in the series will explore the Junction area to the west. The tour begins outside Toronto Public Library - Parkdale Branch. We end the tour at St. Vincent de Paul Church on Roncesvalles Avenue. This tour has a ticket price of $15.00 per person! \*\* **Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket price when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:** **torontohistorywalks@gmail.com**

South Core and Sugar Beach

**The Toronto History Walks Yearly Pass is available. Get it now for $125.00 for 1 year of unlimited tours, email** [torontohistorywalks@gmail.com](http://torontohistorywalks@gmail.com%2A%2A/) **for more information or for signing up!** **Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket amount when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:** [torontohistorywalks@gmail.com](http://torontohistorywalks@gmail.com%2A%2A/) South Core is a new and up and coming district centred on Lower Jarvis Street and Queen's Quay East. Once an industrial area of the old port lands, South Core has become a new and exciting destination for residents and tourists alike. With walking paths adjacent and Sugar Beach on the waterfront, South Core is the place to stroll and learn about Toronto's history. This tour should be called "Back to the 50's." But it also has a rather interesting history. Let's start with the Redpath Sugar complex which opened in 1958. Adjacent to Sugar Beach, several port facilities were built including the Queen Elizabeth Terminals for unloading produce entering Canada. With the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, Toronto built several more terminals which have been converted to residences. Grab a coffee and relax in a most interesting part of Toronto. This walk is for all fitness levels. The meeting place for our walking adventure is the northwest corner of Sugar Beach on Queen's Quay East east at Lower Jarvis Street. See you there! We will end at Cherry Street amid the new development there with the widening of the Don River, and all that glorious parkland! Let's explore, on the perfect summer walk! This tour has a ticket price of $15.00 per person! \*\* **Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket price when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:** \*\*[torontohistorywalks@gmail.com**](http://torontohistorywalks@gmail.com%2A%2A/)

Dupont Morning Code

[Summary] This meetup is for those who are interested in code, web development, design, cloud, or AI. All levels are welcome, so feel free to bring your laptop and discuss what you are working on or what you are learning. You can share your projects and ideas with other participants freely. There are outlets and WiFi, drinks are about $5 for tea, they take card only. [Price] Attendance is FREE. But you need to buy something from the venue. [Policies] \- We do not tolerate harassment of our members \- We remind users that that this meetup is intended for networking and hobby development\, and any attempts at using this meetup event as a dating platform will not be not be tolerated Further information: https://torontostack.exchange/

Free Admission: International Ceramic Art Fair + Food/Drinks (Gardiner Museum)

On **Wednesday August 12th,** **explore the International Ceramic Art Fair** (ICAF) before it leaves the Gardiner Museum on August 16th! The ICAF is the Gardiner Museum’s biennial celebration of innovation and contemporary directions in ceramics, inviting visitors to discover how the boundaries of craftsmanship are being redefined in clay. ICAF 2026 has been expanded from a 10-day event to a 12-week exhibition and public program exploring how ceramics is evolving across art, design, and emerging technologies. At the heart of this year’s edition is the theme “the city and the commons,” presenting ceramics as both material and method for examining how we live together in rapidly changing cities. From architecture to infrastructure, ceramics shelter, connect, and ground us, offering new ways to think about belonging, resilience, and shared space. It's a must-visit for anyone who loves contemporary art. **Additional Exhibits** * In Search of Imperfection: The Macdonald Collection of Japanese and Japanese-Inspired Ceramics * Highways of Harlan House **COST** Free Admission Meetup fee: $5 *** **SIGNING-UP** * **Simply RSVP Yes confirming if you will join for food/drinks after** * RSVPs close 1 day prior, and cancellations after will result in a No Show and impact future attendance. * You can also just show up and join us at the event meetup spot and time * A reminder will go out the day before with my cell and details when to meet, etc. ‐‐----‐----‐‐-------------‐----------- **MEETUP TIME** **Meet me at 6pm** **inside the entrance of The Gardiner Museum at 111 Queen's Park.** We will then head over to the ICAF exhibit at the Special Exhibition Hall on the 3rd Floor. Members are welcome to come and go as they please, and visit the Store. After: Meet at the initial meetup spot to head out for food and drinks Enjoy and please post your Comments after!

The Architecture of Agentic AI

We have another group here at meetup.com! Please register there and join the group as well, so you won't miss future events! https://www.meetup.com/elastic-toronto-user-group/events/315312270/?slug=elastic-toronto-user-group&eventId=315312270 We're excited to bring the community together for an evening of learning and connection! Come support your fellow developers, learn something new, and meet others who are passionate about search, observability, and security. **Date and Time:** Wednesday, August 19th, from 5:30-7:30 pm **Agenda:** * 5:30 pm: Doors open; say hi, grab a seat, and eat some food. * 6:00 pm: **Elasticsearch as a knowledge hub: Context engineering in practice**, by Akanksha Singh, Senior Solutions Architect at Elastic * 6:30 pm: Q&A * 6:40 pm: **What happens when AI meets your APIs?** by John Tobin, Technical Product Leader at Virtual Guardian * 7:10 pm: Q&A with John * 7:20-7:30 pm: Networking & refreshments **Talk Abstracts:** **Elasticsearch as a Knowledge Hub: Context Engineering in Practice** In this session, we’ll explore how context engineering helps solve this retrieval problem by making the right organizational knowledge available at the right time, for both people and AI agents. We’ll also show how Elastic brings together the key components needed to build this layer, without the complexity of stitching together multiple tools. We'll learn: * Real-world use cases for context engineering across organizations * How Elastic uses context engineering internally on our own documents and decisions * A live demo of MCP grounding AI agents in your organization’s actual decisions and history * Practical starting points for improving knowledge management with Elastic **What happens when AI meets your APIs?** APIs are ever more important in the age of Agentic AI. Monitoring APIs for performance and security is critical for any organization as APIs power our websites, mobile applications, partner integrations, cloud orchestrations, and more. This is especially vital now, however, because APIs are the 'action plane' of Agentic AI. In this session, we will demonstrate how we can use the tools in the latest Elastic release to help us with this task. You will learn the importance of API security and how instrumenting API entry points can be a solution to monitoring API and AI traffic. You will also see how some of the latest features can help, and how Elastic: * Makes log ingestion easy, to surface API audit information to interested parties in the organization. * AI Agents can help diagnose security and operational issues for even junior security analysts. * Operational SLOs can help spot performance problems in the daily 'noise' of API traffic. * Machine learning can help predict and identify unexpected use. * Workflows can help users take action in the event of API operational or security issues, or if AI Agents start to misbehave! **Location:** Improving Office 171 East Liberty St Unit 235 Toronto, Ontario M6K 3P6 **Directions (171 E Liberty St - Suite 235)** **By transit** Streetcars 504 and 509 both travel close to the office (less than 10 minute walk to the office from either), the lakeshore GO train is also a 5 minute walk from the office. **By car/parking** On street parking is available - there are a handful of paid parking spots directly in front of the entrance - with a large city parking lot across the street. **Entrance** The entrance to the office is beside the Bulk Barn entrance facing Hannah Street. There is an Improving logo on the door.

NEW LOCATION Sunday PUB-NIGHT/iNtuitive Banter at The Madison

**NEW LOCATION - Madison Avenue Pub** **Due to FIFA schedule our venue may be busy. Be sure to confirm venue/dates before coming!** Join your community of fellow Intuitives and MBTI nerds for a casual evening of engaging conversation. We get together every second Sunday – with a mix of regulars and new friends. There is no fee to attend, though we ask that you support the venue by ordering something to eat or drink. **Feel free to contact event host B. via Facebook/Meetup messenger, or text/call 416-712-8635 for directions**. About the venue: Madison Avenue Pub, 14 Madison Ave Nearest Subway: Spadina Map / Directions: https://maps.app.goo.gl/scdLEYqb9LNJWkgWA We make an effort to find pubs that are quiet and introvert friendly, with a section to ourselves. We make no effort to muffle our extroverts, but should they get out of hand, our resident INTJ will use their death stare, to pull them back in line.

Private Guided Tour New Art Trail on New Toronto Island + Dinner

**Note: I have arranged a private guided tour to see both East and West Trails.** On **Saturday August 8th**, **take a Private Guided Tour of the New Lassonde Art Trail (LAT), that opened late June with its final art installation completed on July 25th. LAT is part of the new Biidaasige Park, situated on the extraordinary site of a new island in the Toronto harbour archipelago, with the TTC stop and parking across the street**. This is the largest park to open in Toronto in a generation. LAT is a series of 15 interconnected public art sites spanning over 4 km of paths that weave through 60 acres of new parkland along Toronto’s waterfront. LAT believes public art enhances wellbeing, guides respectful dialogue and opens our eyes to how we steward the environment. Tours are subject to cancellation in the event of adverse weather. So if the forecast calls for rain, I will make a call 3 hours prior to the event start time. LAT is at the heart of a massive $1.4 billion project that rerouted the mouth of the Don River and built flood protection for downtown Toronto. This feat of civil and bioengineering created a new island in the city harbour called Ookwemin Minising. The project established a new river valley with functional wetlands and 60 acres of publicly accessible open space along the riverbanks and inner harbour. It cleaned and restored soils contaminated from past industrialization, and naturally accommodated the effects of flooding and erosion. In the process it re-established aquatic and terrestrial habitat where Indigenous species of plants and animals can thrive. **Prepare for the walk:** * Walking shoes * Hat * Sunglasses * Water ‐‐----‐----‐‐-------------‐----------- **COST:** Meetup Organizer Fee: $5 ‐‐----‐----‐‐-------------‐----------- **SIGNING-UP** * **RSVP and confirm joining after for food/drinks** * A reminder will be sent the day before with my cell and reminder details where to meet and when. RSVPs close 1 day prior or until full, and all cancellations will result in a No Show and impact future attendance. **MEETUP TIME** **Meet at: 3:45pm** **to the right side, outside of The Old Fire Hall 30 at 51 Commissioners St. I will wait 5 min, then we will join the rest of the tour group.** **Tour starts:** **4pm** **Tour length: 40 mins** After: Food and Drinks at a nearby restaurant Enjoy and please post your Comments in the event after

The Architecture of Agentic AI

We're excited to bring the community together for an evening of learning and connection! Come support your fellow developers, learn something new, and meet others who are passionate about search, observability, and security. **Date and Time:** Wednesday, August 19th, from 5:30-7:30 pm **Agenda:** * 5:30 pm: Doors open; say hi, grab a seat, and eat some food. * 6:00 pm: **Elasticsearch as a knowledge hub: Context engineering in practice**, by Akanksha Singh, Senior Solutions Architect at Elastic * 6:30 pm: Q&A * 6:40 pm: **What happens when AI meets your APIs?** by John Tobin, Technical Product Leader and Marek Suchomski, technical account manager at ESI Technologies * 7:10 pm: Q&A with John * 7:20-7:30 pm: Networking & refreshments **Talk Abstracts:** **Elasticsearch as a Knowledge Hub: Context Engineering in Practice** In this session, we’ll explore how context engineering helps solve this retrieval problem by making the right organizational knowledge available at the right time, for both people and AI agents. We’ll also show how Elastic brings together the key components needed to build this layer, without the complexity of stitching together multiple tools. We'll learn: * Real-world use cases for context engineering across organizations * How Elastic uses context engineering internally on our own documents and decisions * A live demo of MCP grounding AI agents in your organization’s actual decisions and history * Practical starting points for improving knowledge management with Elastic **What happens when AI meets your APIs?** APIs are ever more important in the age of Agentic AI. Monitoring APIs for performance and security is critical for any organization as APIs power our websites, mobile applications, partner integrations, cloud orchestrations, and more. This is especially vital now, however, because APIs are the 'action plane' of Agentic AI. In this session, we will demonstrate how we can use the tools in the latest Elastic release to help us with this task. You will learn the importance of API security and how instrumenting API entry points can be a solution to monitoring API and AI traffic. You will also see how some of the latest features can help, and how Elastic: * Makes log ingestion easy, to surface API audit information to interested parties in the organization. * AI Agents can help diagnose security and operational issues for even junior security analysts. * Operational SLOs can help spot performance problems in the daily 'noise' of API traffic. * Machine learning can help predict and identify unexpected use. * Workflows can help users take action in the event of API operational or security issues, or if AI Agents start to misbehave! **Location:** Improving Office 171 East Liberty St Unit 235 Toronto, Ontario M6K 3P6 **Directions (171 E Liberty St - Suite 235)** **By transit** Streetcars 504 and 509 both travel close to the office (less than 10 minute walk to the office from either), the lakeshore GO train is also a 5 minute walk from the office. **By car/parking** On street parking is available - there are a handful of paid parking spots directly in front of the entrance - with a large city parking lot across the street. **Entrance** The entrance to the office is beside the Bulk Barn entrance facing Hannah Street. There is an Improving logo on the door.

Lockpicking Monthly Meetup

Come out to our monthly meetups if you are: •New to lockpicking and want to learn. •Experienced with locks and lockpicking and excited to teach and exchange knowledge. We have lots of loaner locks and picks for people to try without needing any supplies of their own. Join the Toool Toronto discord https://discord.gg/fuamRhuAdD We are now going back to primarily an in-person meeting. If you would like to join online, its best to bring this up in the #meeting-night-discussion channel beforehand and then find us in our Meeting Room voice channel on Wednesday night. This event is hosted at a volunteer run makerspace: Site 3 coLaboratory 718R Ossington Ave Toronto, ON M6G 3T7

Fashion Implied/Lingerie/Fine Art w/ Katie Marie from LA (#2)

Casa Loma

Join us as we go to explore Toronto's Castle! Tickets can be purchased through the Casa Loma website: [Home - Casa Loma](https://casaloma.ca/) For those of you who would like to visit other Toronto Landmarks and attractions, I would recommend looking at getting the City Pass: [CityPASS® - See 5 Top Things to Do in Toronto and Save up to 38%](https://www.citypass.com/toronto)