Novack’s has been holding Saturday morning walks for 5 years and we invite you to join our walks. Start your Saturday morning with a walk of approximately one hour to get you warmed up for your own personal program. We walk along sidewalks and the multi-use paths along the Thames River near the Downtown area.

Our pace is at a moderate rate, allowing conversation and viewing a few of the sights, but long enough to get you warmed up for the day. Walking, as a healthy active lifestyle choice, has become a major part of one’s exercise regimen.

An introduction to SoHo, this walk will offer a glimpse of some of SoHo’s intriguing architecture and interesting characters from the past, while examining some of the challenges facing this downtown neighborhood (south of the tracks).

East of Adelaide (EOA), long thought of as the natural home of the street-level sex and drug trade, and in decline for much of the past generation is now witnessing a remarkable renaissance. This walk will chronicle the natural ebb and flow of inner-city vitality, the role of local politics in both neighbourhood decline and revitalization, and how urban revitalization can only occur with the mobilization of local residents to provide an authentic and place-centred vision for the future.

We will explore voth the residential neighbourhood and its commercial corridor, examine the relationship of each to the other, see the importance of heritage preservation as a tool of social and economic change, and discuss the potential challenges to long-term residents of urban gentrification.

A short work through parts of one of London’s Environmentally Significant Areas, Medway Valley Heritage Forest.

A 60-minute tour through the Meadowlily area that will be slightly different because people will get a chance to visit or at least view from a distance the three key heritage features of the Meadowlily area: Meadowlily Mill, Meadowlily Bridge and a view from the east of Park Farm heritage farmhouse. Come join us for a brief introduction to Meadowlily Woods and its treasures. By the way the trillium is in full bloom!

Learn about the diverse array of local chimneys.  Find out which features make certain chimneys suitable as nesting habitat for the Chimney Swift, a species-at-risk in Canada. Chimneys, especially older ones, come in a fascinating array of shapes, sizes and designs.  These often-overlooked architectural features intersect with an equally fascinating but rarely noticed little bird.  The sooty-grey Chimney Swift flies high over cities and towns hunting insects.  In 2009, the species was designated as Threatened both provincially (Ontario) and federally (Canada).  Swifts nest inside old brick chimneys of buildings constructed in the 1960s or earlier.
**Free parking available behind the library off Bruce St, or along neighbouring streets

In participation with Jane’s Walk London we have decided to schedule another May London Photo Walk taking place on May 2nd. Join us at Bresica University College for about a 2 hour walk through the forest and trails. We encourage you to bring your camera to take pictures of the buildings, people and nature along this beautiful walk. This walk will take us through the forest and on trails that aren’t paved so we suggest that proper footwear be worn.

Although we realize that this walk is happening not too long after our last photowalk and very close to our joint Photo Walk with PodCamp London we thought it was important to celebrate the City of London on May 2nd with the many other walkers that will be out that day.

You can view Western’s Parking Services for parking availability.

London Photo Walks have been holding monthly photo walks since 2009, and we encourage you to join us this May. The next London Photo Walks is scheduled to take place at the University of Western Ontario (UWO). Although this walk will take place after most students have left the campus, this Sunday morning walk in May will prove to be a beautiful one with the flowers and plants hopefully in full bloom.

Taking this into consideration that our walk falls on Mother’s Day, we encourage everyone who wants to come out to bring their mother to enjoy the great weather and beautiful scenery. This walk will be taking place in conjunction with PodCamp London 2010 which is happening the day before on May 8th 2010.

Travel the forks of the Thames River on this 60-minute walking tour. You’ll learn about what was here, what is here and what might be here.

First Tour: 1:30 pm

Second Tour: 2:30 pm

Find walks in your neighbourhood or join up with one of the Museum London Walks.

If you have a walk that you’d like to submit, please contact us.