City commits to installing Berczy Park plaque to late park designer Claude Cormier in spring 2027.
Councillor Chris Moise’s Office today announced that, thanks to the Ward 13 Toronto Centre Projects Program (participatory budgeting), the City will install a commemorative plaque for Cormier by spring 2027!
What a great way to mark the 10th anniversary of Berczy Park in 2027.
Excited about the FIFA World Cup in Toronto this summer? Then check out the ‘Berczy Beaver’, one of 50+ artist rendered beaver sculptures around the St Lawrence Market neighbourhood, sponsored by Old Town Toronto Business Improvement Association. See below and QR code to take part in the Great Beaver Quest!
Attention knitters! Starting Tuesday June 16, 2026, our Friends of Berczy Park drop-in knitting group meets each Tuesday, at 2pm at the table & chair sets on the Berczy Park terrace. Drop in to socialize and refine your skills with other talented, multi-generational knitters, including the ladies who make the colourful wool holiday scarves for our Berczy fountain dogs. Weather permitting.
Friends of Berczy Park will be joining the City’s Clean Toronto Together clean-up on Saturday, April 25th. Please join us in the Berczy Park gravel mural garden, behind the Flatiron Bldg , at 10:00 AM to help us bring the park back to a clean, beautiful place to visit and spend time.
We also have a team of volunteers who help to keep the popular tables and chairs clean from spring through fall. These “superheroes” sign up for flexible one-week shifts anytime between May and October. If you would like to learn more about the work we do or to be a member of this amazing team, please email normadavis1002@gmail.com. We would love to have you join us!
For the eighth year in a row, members of Friends of Berczy Park drop-in knitting group have prepared warm decorative scarves for the Berczy fountain sculpture dogs. The knitters meet throughout the year to socialize, practice their skills, and prepare these scarves and other items (which are later donated to those in need) . Then, Old Town Toronto BIA, who helps fund the program, installs the scarves on our fountain in time for the Cavalcade of Lights event, occurring Friday Nov 28, 2025. This Old Town BIA event helps brighten our park and brings music and fun to the public. Happy holidays to all! (As reported earlier, after the holidays the Berczy fountain dog and cat sculptures will be removed by the City for repair and restoration).
We are howling happy that the City of Toronto Parks Dept will perform some much needed tender-loving-care repairs and restoration on the Berczy Park dog fountain sculptures, which have been a much-loved, often photographed, and sometimes abused, feature of our thriving city park since 2017. The City will take down the dogs (and cat) sculptures this winter to restore their puppy- and kitty-quality coats and colours. We can welcome the pack back in spring 2026.
A quick end-of-year ‘thank you’ to our many dedicated Friends of Berczy Park volunteers, including our park clean-up helpers, table & chair set cleaning teams, dog scarf knitting group, and our year-round working committee. We also thank the staff from the City Parks Dept and form the Old Town Toronto BIA who work year-round, and all hours, to care for our park. Have a restful and relaxing holiday everyone!
Attendees at our year-end volunteer thank you event.City Parks staff work early and late to keep our Park in clean, safe and working condition. Staff from Old Town Toronto BIA get hands-on to develop, install and maintain park features and numerous special seasonal installations.
Hey Berczy Park enthusiasts in Ward 13/ St Lawrence: Please vote online now to support a City plaque to recognize late Berczy Park designer, Claude Cormier.
As a resident of Ward 13, you can vote directly on ideas submitted by residents to improve our public spaces. This is part of Toronto Centre Project’s 2025 ‘Participatory Budgeting’ program. The ideas that win the most votes during October 2025 will be fast-tracked to City Council.
Through this initiative, Friends of Berczy Park submitted an idea to recognize the late Claude Cormier, the designer behind our famous dog fountain and park, with a commemorative plaque to recognize his life’s work. Now, you can vote to support this idea, and others submitted by community members.
Here’s how to vote now on the finalist ideas:
• Vote online until Oct 31. It’s easy: Just follow the link to the ‘cluster 5’ group of ideas, and scroll down to the yellow ‘How to vote’ box’/’Let’s begin’. Then, follow the steps to register as a resident of the ward and vote for as many of the finalist ideas as you like up to the total budget (including ‘Berczy Park plaque for late Claude Cormier’). Ready to vote? Let’s go: https://torontocentreprojects.ca/…/2025-pb-cluster-5
Once voting ends on October 31, the Toronto Centre Councillor’s office will publish the results on Toronto Centre Projects website and submit a motion to City Council to approve these projects.
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