About

The Cardinal is a creative exhibition space with a focus on showing fine art photography as well as providing an inviting event venue for the arts community. The Cardinal aims to be approachable and inclusive with a boutique atmosphere. 
Situated in a restored storefront of a historical building at 1231 Davenport Road in Toronto's West Side, we are located just north of the eclectic Geary Avenue strip and the equally diverse neighbourhoods of Wallace Emmerson and The Junction Triangle.
 

We acknowledge the land we are meeting on is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.

 

Beneath the winding course of Davenport Road lies hidden an ancient trail created by Indigenous peoples. The trail linked their settlements with hunting and fishing grounds, and with trade routes that tied this region to the upper Great lakes, the Atlantic coast, and the Midwest.

Between the Humber and the Don Rivers, the ancient footpath avoided difficult terrain by weaving along the foot of the escarpment that is one of Toronto’s most distinctive geological features - the shoreline of 13,500-year-old glacial Lake Iroquois, forerunner of much smaller Lake Ontario. This meandering route, at odds with the city’s rectangular street grid, now connects us to the distant past.

 
 "The Cardinal Gallery is a sunny, welcoming space with gleaming, wide-planked, dark floors and a cosy backyard (perfect for physically distanced launch parties) on Davenport, near Dovercourt. It's a welcome addition to Toronto's art scene as one of only a few galleries in town that focuses on photography, in particular featuring high-end, limited-edition prints."
 
Sue Carter, Toronto Star

 

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