Wampum Crosswalks at Allan Gardens

PB2024 - Wampum Crosswalks at Allan Gardens

This idea proposes to paint and install the Dish with One Spoon, and Two Row Wampum belts at pedestrian crosswalks around Allan Gardens. 

Transportation Services estimates that the project will cost $80,000 with materials and labour. Complications may apply.

Internal ID: PB2024-TS-522

*Note: Ideas that proceed to the voting stage are edited by my office to ensure they are clear, concise, and is complete with images. For accountability and transparency purposes, the original description, as input by the resident, can be found below.

Original Description:

Taiaiako’n Historical Preservation Society and the Friends of Allan Gardens propose painting the Dish with One Spoon, and Two Row Wampum belts at pedestrian crosswalks around Allan Gardens. This would beautifully complement the Pride and Trans flags crosswalks in the Village, and would lift up the pedestrian experience for the whole neighbourhood! Making visible these wampum belts in Downtown Toronto’s urban landscape would encourage more people in the city to consider their own responsibilities as inhabitants or visitors to these lands. Given Allan Garden’s importance to Indigenous organizations and peoples, and the high pedestrian volumes seen around the park, Taiaiako’n and the Friends of Allan Gardens feel this would be an appropriate place for Toronto’s first wampum crosswalks. We could engage with the City of Toronto’s Transportation Services to determine which crosswalks around the park could be repainted in this way. Nya:weh, Miigwech, Thank you!