Lead a Jane’s Walk
Jane’s Walks can be led by anyone who wants to share with others what they believe makes their neighborhood, or Halifax, a special place to live. Your walk and conversation can be about music, art, nature, diversity, history…any thread in the fabric of life in our great city.
Jane’s Walk leaders help citizens get to know their communities by gathering people outside of their homes, offices, and cars to exchange knowledge, tell stories, and share experiences.
When choosing a time to start your walk, take a look at the schedule and see what other walks are planned and, if at all possible, pick a time other than that for which walks are already scheduled on your preferred day.
Want to lead a walk? Follow these 3 easy steps:
Fill in and submit the walk planning form
Give some thought to what you want to say and where you will lead the walkers. Better yet, do a dry run leading up to the walk!
Arrive 15 minutes before the start of your walk. Someone from the Jane’s Walk Committee will join you to assist in greeting people.
We will advertise your walk here on the website and on posters, brochures etc. We will also create an event for each walk on our Facebook page. Past experience tells us that it is very helpful for you to share your walk information with your network of family, friends, and colleagues, too.
Watch this short video on how to lead a Jane’s Walk.
Here are examples of walks held in previous years:
Where the Water Was: Lost Wetlands and Waterways of Halifax: Did you know that the Halifax Commons used to be a swamp? Or that a babbling brook used to run through the middle of the South End? Most of the peninsula's wetlands and waterways of are lost or buried, but their legacy remains in the city's spongy soils and flooded basements.
Walk and Play: This child-friendly walk will take us from the newly constructed Fort Needham Memorial Park playground to the older Isleville playground just to the west of the Hydrostones.
Hidden history in Cole Harbour: Imperoyal & Beaver Crescent: Imperoyal Village was a harbourfront community with a strong sense of belonging. But it was owned by Imperial Oil, and when a refinery expansion was planned, all the residents had to move out, and the village was demolished. Walk leader Paul Romkey spent the first 22 years of his life living in Imperoyal.
Storm Porches: This walk started at the corner of Queen and Morris Streets and ended on Tower Road. It was led by Stephen Archibald who discussed how storm porches are a charming feature on many nineteenth-century houses in the Old South End. If you’ve never stopped to notice them, you’re in for a treat.
