The Butterflyway Project

District of North Vancouver residents turned 25 neighbourhoods into a Butterflyway this summer, including plantings at Gerry’s Garden and a Windsor Park Butterflyway Lane.

Rangers planted school grounds and yards, adopted a neighbourhood park and roundabout, named three Butterflyway Schools and, with the help of the Richmond Garden Club, created the Paulik Park patch.

We’re thrilled to be creating a north-south pollinator corridor with the addition of a Butterflyway in Vancouver — a city filled with neighbourhood gardens and parks.

We trained two dozen Victoria Butterflyway Rangers in 2017. Since then, these keen volunteers planted pollinator patches throughout the city.

In 2017, Rangers in Markham established a Butterflyway through the former Town of Thornhill. In 2018, they grew their fleet of Butterflyway canoe gardens to 11!

More than 200 households in the City of Richmond Hill joined the Butterflyway Project this spring by planting pollinator patches in their yards.

Scarborough residents planted more than 30 pollinator patches to establish a Butterflyway in the Guildwood neighbourhood.

Butterflyway Rangers in Toronto's east end created Canada’s first Butterflyway in the Beaches! They planted more than 40 pollinator patches in 2017.

Butterflyway Rangers in Toronto’s Cedarvale-Humewood neighbourhood planted pollinator patches in a dozen schoolyards, yards and parks in 2017. They built on past neighbourhood plantings created through the Homegrown National Park Project.

Rangers in Leslieville continued growing the network of pollinator patches in Toronto’s east end by planting in lanes, schools, parks and streetscapes.

In Montreal, the Butterflyway Project continued through l’Effet papillon, which recruited 80 Patrouille Papillon in 2018.