Love Parade! Remembering Claude Cormier, Landscape Architect

A Waterfront Parks Bike Tour

Join us for Love Parade! Remembering Claude Cormier, Landscape Architect, a guided bike tour celebrating five iconic Toronto parks and the playful, generous design legacy of Claude Cormier.

This relaxed, social tour will travel along Toronto’s central waterfront, bringing together park enthusiasts for an afternoon of cycling, conversation, and reflection. At each stop, participants will hear brief remarks from landscape architects, designers, city‑builders, and project partners, offering insight into the vision, design thinking, and impact of each park.

The tour is both a celebration of public space and a collective moment of remembrance honouring Claude Cormier’s lasting contribution to Toronto’s park landscape, and his remarkable ability to infuse joy, colour, and meaning into the public realm.

Registration:

Space is limited and advance registration is required. Participants may bring their own bike with registration or request a limited‑availability Bike Share Toronto bike by registering for that option and completing the required waiver to secure their spot.

OALA members can register using the code CCOALA26.

REGISTER HERE: https://LoveParade.eventbrite.com

About Claude Cormier

Claude Cormier (1960–2023) was one of Canada’s most influential and beloved landscape architects—an audacious, joyful, and deeply human designer whose work forever transformed how people experience public space. Through his Montréal‑based practice, CCxA, he redefined the role of landscape architecture in the city, blending art, urbanism, humour, and cultural expression into places meant to be shared, celebrated, and loved.

While Montréal was the base of his practice, Claude Cormier’s influence reaches well beyond. In Toronto, parks including HTO Park, Love Park, Berczy Park, Sugar Beach, and Leslie Lookout Park remind us of Cormier and his team’s devotion to designing public spaces that invite delight.

This bike tour honours Claude Cormier by moving through the very parks that embody his design philosophy. Experiencing them by bike, as a connected sequence of public spaces that highlight not only their individual character but also their collective contribution to Toronto’s evolving waterfront and public realm. The tour offers a moment to reflect on how Cormier’s legacy continues to shape the way people gather, play, and find joy in the city.

Love Parade! is both a celebration of these remarkable landscapes and a tribute to a designer whose work reminds us that public space can, and should be poetic, inclusive, and unapologetically joyful.

Parks We’ll Be Visiting

The tour includes stops at five signature parks including:

• HTO Park
• Love Park
• Berczy Park
• Sugar Beach
• Leslie Lookout

Bikes & Support Vehicle

Participants are welcome to bring their own bicycles with registration. This event is also proudly supported by Bike Share Toronto. A limited number of Bike Share bikes are available for registered participants; you will be asked during registration to indicate if you require a bike.

To support inclusive participation, a support vehicle will be available. If you need access to this vehicle, please indicate the accessibility supports you require during registration or contact us directly at [email protected].

This event is made possible with support from:

• Local Councillors' offices (Wards 10, 13, and 14)
• Claude Cormier et Associés (CCxA)
• Ontario Association of Landscape Architects (OALA)
• City of Toronto: Waterfront Secretariat, Parks and Recreation and Communications Division
• Waterfront BIA
• Bike Share Toronto
• Waterfront Toronto
• CreateTO