Flight of the Passenger Pigeons

Photo: David Zapparoli

Two thousand elementary school children, under the leadership of professional artists, created papier mâché replicas of the now extinct passenger pigeons. The project culminates on Canada Day, July 1, 2000, with a sidewalk parade of students and their birds along Lake Shore Blvd. to the grounds of the Gatehouse (3101 Lake Shore Blvd.) for a ceremony to dedicate a student designed and built community bird feeding/housing station.

Artist workshop leaders are: Liliana Delrisarri, Sarindar Dhaliwal, Ken Kettlewell, Wendy Lilly, Lorna Livey, Dania Madera-Lerman, Barb Symons, Gabrielle Wimmerschoff.

Bird Station Workshop leaders: Wendy Lilly, Andrew Keaveney, and George Chowns

Canada Day Parade
July 1, 2000, from 2 pm to 4 pm,
The Gatehouse
3101 Lake Shore Blvd.

Public Viewing: Public displays of birds and messages available for viewing during regular business hours until June 24, 2000 at:

• Fisherman’s Corner
  380 Brown’s Line
• Royal Bank of Canada
  3609 Lake Shore Blvd.
• Porritt Real Estate
  3399 Lake Shore Blvd.
• CAWL
  2930 Lake Shore Blvd.
• Scheffer’s Dry Cleaners
  2901 Lakeshore Blvd.
• LAMP
  185 Fifth St.
• Toronto Dominion Bank
  2805 Lake Shore Blvd.
• Wuthering Bites Literary Café
  2350 Lake Shore Blvd.
• El Salon
  2370 Lakeshore Blvd.
• Maximum Music
  4 Mimico Ave.
• All Canadian Self-Storage
  2256 Lake Shore Blvd.