After a few years hiatus, MHBPNA is sponsoring a Jane’s Walk this year. We encourage everyone to check out the Jane’s Walk Waterloo Region website to see all the walks in Cambridge, Waterloo and Kitchener. It will be an excellent weekend.
Our walk will be on Saturday, May 6 at 1 pm:
Here is a short explanation of “What is a Jane’s walk” we wrote on this Blog back in 2012:
Spring must be here because it is time for another Jane’s Walk
Weekend in the Kitchener/Waterloo area. The “Jane” in the walk is Jane Jacobs
who was an urban activist in the United States and Canada. She wrote
books on how to build urban environments that people enjoyed living in.
The photo below shows her engaged in saving Penn Station from
development and in her later years she was famous for helping stop the
Spadina Expressway in Toronto.
Of course there are many excellent places on the web to learn about
Ms. Jacobs. The great thing about the Jane’s Walk events is that you do
not need to know anything about her at all, except that she serves as an
inspiration for neighbours to get together and discover the history of
where they live. These walks are a great way to meet people from near
and far.
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