The Spirit Garden, which opened in September, 2024, lies just to the west of Nathan Phillips Square at Toronto City Hall. Amongst plantings of native species that will reawaken in the coming months the garden features a number objects embodying First Nations iconography, most notably a Teaching Lodge, seen rear, right side of centre, below, and a turtle sculpture, rear right, harder to make out from the vantage point. Front and centre, however, is the snow-dusted, 11m Voyageur Spirit Canoe, created in stainless steel by Métis artist Tannis Neilsen, and laser cut with artwork that tells Métis stories.