Celebrating U of T’s Landmark project — and the FIFSW alumni who helped support it

The University of Toronto’s Landmark Project — which has revitalized King’s College Circle with winding pedestrian pathways, new gardens, additional seating, and a grand Alumni Plaza — was celebrated on September 28th with the U of T community, including alumni and supporters who invested in the project. 

The University has hailed the project as “one of the most significant open-space projects at the University of Toronto in the past 100 years.” In addition to contributing to a safer, accessible — and more beautiful — pedestrianized public space, the Landmark Project includes a major geothermal field that is estimated to save 15,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year, equivalent to taking more than 3,000 cars off the road. A new underground parking garage provides a secure space for vehicles, including electric cars and over 300 bikes.   

As the University writes on The Landmark Project webpage “this historic space will serve as a centre piece of U of T’s Climate Positive Campus plan, and will make our campus one of the premier green spaces in Toronto’s urban core.”

We asked FIFSW alumni and supporters who donated to the project by purchasing an engraved stone paver to share what seeing their stone embedded in the new walkway on campus means to them.

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(MSW 1977)

“My uncle, David Breslove, was one of 10 children born to Jewish immigrants from Kyiv. His father was a pedlar. David was a brilliant student and graduated at the top of his class at Parkdale Collegiate. He studied Classics at University College and graduated with an MA in 1914. He was a devoted scholar of Greek and Latin, and taught for years at Lawrence Park Collegiate where he was head of the  Classics Dept. He was the author of the text books used in the Ontario  high schools, including the mandatory Grade 13 textbook. He was a very kind man who overcame many obstacles in his life. This stone is meant to honour him.”