Winnipeg poet Sally Ito would have led this walk as part of her author residency at Historic Joy Kogawa House.
Unable to travel west due to current restrictions, Sally has instead written haiku to accompany locations on a self-guided walk of the Marpole neighbourhood that begins and ends at the heritage house.
Here is a map of the whole route.
As it is a virtual walk, you needn’t worry about which cherry trees are in bloom when, but if you will be checking it out on foot, the map comments indicate roughly when the trees would be in bloom. Many of these cherry trees are in bloom now!
Thanks to Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival for this virtual partnership!
Is there an actual virtual tour or just a map? I was expecting a video
Sorry, I know virtual house tours are sometimes video, but the word “virtual” only means “almost or nearly as described” or “carried out, accessed, or stored by means of a computer, especially over a network.” https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/virtual.
We were not trying to be deceptive, nor do I think we really were being so.