WHERE COMMUNITY MEETS OPPORTUNITY
Warden Woods Community Centre works with and for Southwest Scarborough community members to meet the needs and interests of residents and visitors of all ages.
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Have you ever felt like you were swimming upstream?
Grown salmon return to the river where they were born, leaping upstream despite strong currents, predators, and exhaustion, to pass their genes on to a new generation.
Using this resonant theme, community members started work on renewing the ramp at 74 Firvalley this past summer, in partnership with Queer Métis artist Cai Bell-Jerome. So far, over 120 community members of all ages have contributed to the ramp renewal, and the creativity continues.
As part of this project, we would like to include the names of community members (folks who have lived here, or attended programs here, or volunteered here, or worked here, etc). If you have a name to add, please send it via the survey below:
Land Acknowledgement
Warden Woods Community Centre sites occupy land in Scarborough that have been the home of Indigenous peoples long before European colonization.
The territory of what is known today as Toronto is encompassed by the One Dish, One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, a mutual agreement between nations for sharing and caring for land and resources.
Toronto is covered by Treaty 13, and Scarborough is covered by the Williams Treaties, and as such we are all treaty people.
We recognize that Indigenous nations including The Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabek, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples have inherent communal rights to the occupation and use of this land as sovereign nations.
Scarborough is currently home to Indigenous people, languages, and cultures from across the globe.
Our organization is committed to activating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, and to supporting work to uphold Indigenous rights to land, resources, and sovereignty.