Reviews
Guests love our tours. Whether you are visiting Toronto on vacation or have lived here your whole life, this experience will reveal some unforgettable, jaw-dropping secrets.
Your tour guides are a history professor or PhD student with rare, exclusive stories about the real history of Toronto. We bring these stories to life, using rare photographs, artifacts, one of the last standing Victorian brothels and sex work history sites. Join us as we aim to entertain, educate and remember this hidden group of women as some of our city’s unacknowledged town founders.
Our tour has been awarded a Trip Advisor Award of Excellence. land guests describe their experiences as “fantastic,” “transformative,” “respectful,” and “captivating.”
5/5 “This was such a fascinating, incredibly done tour. I learned so much about early Toronto and how central sex work and brothels were to its development. I loved how immersive and transportive the tour was, with stops on the same streets sex workers once traversed, and in front of the same buildings where brothels were once housed, all while the guide told richly detailed stories that brought these Old Torontonians and their city back to life. I also appreciated how seriously the guide took the subject, showing respect to past sex workers and acknowledging the kind of autonomy they carved out that was rare for women of their time, without whitewashing the challenges and dangers they faced.” Tamara, June 2024
5/5 “Fantastic visit. I have been living for 27 years in Toronto but I learned so much with this tour; I highly recommend it.” Isabelle, July 2024.
5/5 “Incredible tour. Very informative, well paced with time for questions and just the right number of sites. This tour touches on so many fascinating aspects of the city’s history that connect to current institutions or monuments but are rarely or never discussed in the public history of Toronto. Highly recommended!!” GYG Guest, 2024
5/5 “Our guide was exceptionally well informed and shared stories and accompanying photos with knowledge and enthusiasm. She built in plenty of time for questions and comments from participants. I fully recommend this tour!” Kara, August 2024
5/5 “Charlotte was great. She was passionate about sharing the lives of sex workers In Toronto’s history. I appreciated the time she took to answer questions. She stayed with us after and told us more about queer and trans sex workers in history and I really appreciated that!” Lisa, August 2024
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