Dave Bidini tours Toronto’s parks and parkettes, one at a time. This week: Maple Leaf Forever Park, near Queen Street East and Leslie You can save this article by registering for free here.

The Maple Leaf is forever, after all ... not only in history and fond memory, but in the small park behind Maple Cottage on Laing St. in the east Toronto neighbourhood of Leslieville.

The National Capital Commission (NCC) has committed to planting only native Canadian Maple Leaf trees instead of foreign-bred maples on all its urban lands in the future because of the leaf's ...