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Acknowledgements
In collaboration with Museum of Toronto, Toronto Gone Wild is co-curated by geographer and award-winning writer Amy Lavender Harris, and historian and professor Jennifer Bonnell.
The exhibition was conceptualized and developed by the team at Myseum of Toronto.
Myseum of Toronto is made possible with the generous support of Diane Blake and Stephen Smith.
About the Curators
Jennifer Bonnell
Jennifer Bonnell is a historian of public memory and environmental change in nineteenth and twentieth-century Canada. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at York University, where she teaches courses in Canadian, environmental and public history.She is the author of “Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley” and the editor, with Marcel Fortin, of “Historical GIS Research in Canada.” She is currently working on a new book project, titled “Foragers of a Modern Countryside: Honeybees, Agricultural Modernization and Environmental Change in the Great Lakes Region.”
Amy Lavender Harris
Amy Lavender Harris is a geographer based in Toronto, with a keen focus on the intersection between culture and nature in urban environments. Her book, “Imagining Toronto,” received the 2011 heritage Toronto Award and was shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize in Canadian literary criticism. As a contributing editor with Spacing Magazine, Harris has contributed to various books, journals, and exhibitions exploring place and culture in Canadian art. After teaching for 25 years at institutions including York University, Toronto Metropolitan University, the University of Toronto, and Queen’s University, she retired in 2022. Harris is currently working on projects including a novel called “Acts of Salvage” and a non-fiction work, “The Space Between Us: Commentaries on a Divided Culture,” co-authored with her husband, Peter Fruchter. Beyond her intellectual pursuits, Harris is an avid gardener, composter, kayaker, cyclist, and explorer of back alleys and ravines.
The Museum Team
We are Bria Dietrich, Yazmin Butcher, Kamran Dadi,, Breanne Gimza, April Hazan, Davin Henson, Heidi Reitmaier, Rosemary Snell, Julie Suh, Sarah Tumaliuan, along with Laura Robb, Scott Taylor, Ada Hopkins, Mimi Vuong, Mia Yaguchi-Chow.
Exhibition Design
elsonstudio
elsonstudio is the design practice of Christine Elson. Trained as an architect, Christine has been working with museums, galleries and other cultural clients for over 10 years, developing engaging exhibitions, installations and activations. Her studies in literature, as well as her experience working in the theatre world and film industry, have contributed to a deep understanding of the design of narrative spaces.
Special Thanks
Special thanks to: Donna and David Babstock, Kelly Babstock, Scott Crawford, Jeremy Diamond, Laura Furman, Paul Gilkinson, Gabrielle Major, Eric Skouris, Jos Theriault, and to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, City of Toronto Archives, City of Toronto Museums & Heritage Services, McWood Studios Inc., Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame, the Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum, the Midway Village Museum, and the Toronto Public Library.
As a non-profit cultural institution, Myseum would like to acknowledge the incredible work of those featured in the exhibition. This exhibition is designed for teaching, scholarship, education, and research purposes only. Our intent is to present an engaging experience that respects the rights of creators, and fosters a spirit of shared knowledge through the “fair dealing” under the Copyright Act of Canada.
