The City of Toronto, and the Geary Avenue area within it, have been inhabited by Indigenous peoples for millennia, or time immemorial. Beneath Davenport Road, one block north of Geary Avenue lies an ancient trail created by Indigenous peoples.
The trail ran at the foot of the bluff which formed the former shoreline of Lake Iroquois, the forerunner of the much smaller Lake Ontario. The Indigenous trail linked Indigenous settlements with hunting and fishing grounds and with trade routes.
Defined by the geography of the former Lake Iroquois shoreline, Davenport Road stands out from the colonially imposed rectilinear street grid and connects us with the area's indigenous history.
