Welcome to the QR Code Walking Tour

The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives brings you a new interactive digital experience to bring queer and trans heritage to life!

This self-guided QR code walking tour brings Toronto’s 2SLGBTQIA+ heritage to life by connecting key historical sites with audio narration, archival images, and rich storytelling. Building upon The ArQuives' long-standing walking tour program led by the Community Engagement Committee, this project makes history accessible in a multilingual, mobile, and self-paced format.

Whether you are walking the route in person or exploring from afar, this digital tour is designed to support all diverse learners, community members, and visitors to the Church-Wellesley Village and surrounding neighbourhoods.

Engage with Toronto’s 2SLGBTQIA+ past in the very spaces where it unfolded!

This project was created in collaboration with the GLAM Incubator at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information. Digital exhibition was researched, written, and created by Jae Kim (Project Research Assistant), with additional research support from volunteers of The ArQuives’ Community Engagement Committee.