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Bloorlea
Invitation: For all levels of dancers. Cost: $5 per class.
Time: 10:00am – noon
Season 2025/26: September 9 to December 9 and January 6 to May 12
Location: Alderwood Centre, 2 Orianna Drive, Etobicoke, ON M8W 4Y1 (west of Brown’s Line and Horner Ave)
Teacher & Contact: Arlene Koteff 416.272-7217
About the group: Join us as we dance in the bright and spacious Meeting Room at the Alderwood Centre. Masks are optional. Hand sanitizer will be provided for use between dances. Please bring your own water.
How to get there: Just west of Brown’s Line off Horner Avenue. Plenty of free parking in the lot in front of the main doors. -
Clairside (the group formerly known as Tayside Morning)
Invitation: We invite any interested dancers (beginners welcome) to join us on Tuesday mornings
Time: 10:30am – noon
Season 2025/26: September 9 – December 9, 2025; January 6 – May 12, 2026
Location: Clairlea Park Presbyterian Church, 3236 St. Clair Avenue East, Toronto, ON M1L 1V
Teacher: Blair Gerrie 416.651-8933
Contact: Sandra Charlesworth 416.901-7723
About the group: The Tayside Morning Group has been welcomed to a different church in the same neighbourhood, and we changed our name to avoid confusion with Tayside Evening Group, which also has a new location (see below). Clairside is branding itself as a low impact class. If the spring has sprung from your steps, and you don’t like driving at night (especially in the winter), then perhaps Clairside is the class for you!
How to get there: if you are driving – just east of Pharmacy Ave., lots of free parking behind the church, off Eastdale Crescent. If you take TTC, Clairlea Park Church is on a bus route, and two blocks from Warden Subway. -
Tayside
Invitation: All dancers are invited to join the class (beginners included), to enjoy Blair Gerrie’s skillful
instruction and interesting dances. Masks are optional.Time: 7:30 – 9:30pm
Season 2025/26: September 9 – December 9, 2025; January 6 – May 12, 2026
Location: First Hungarian Presbyterian Church, 95 Jonesville Crescent
Teacher: Blair Gerrie 416.651-8933
Contact: Barbara Grisdale 416.759-4275
About the group: Tayside meets in the First Hungarian Presbyterian Church in a beautiful, newly-renovated space. No more dancing in a basement, on a tile-on-concrete floor!
Photos of Tayside’s 40th Anniversary celebrations are available here
How to get there: Located near O’Connor/Eglinton Ave East. First Hungarian has a large parking lot. -
Don Mills
Invitation: Join us on the dance floor for an easy and pleasant social evening (with appropriate protocols). Cost is $5 per class.
Time: 7:30 – 9:30pm
Season 2025/26: September 9, 2025 to May 26, 2026
Location: Banbury Community Centre, 120 Banbury Road, (S. off York Mills W. of Leslie)
Teacher: Sandra Scott 416.447-0157
Contact: Anne Anderson 416.449-1898
About the group: We dance Tuesday evenings in a very nice space, with a good wood floor. We have a jovial, life-long dancer for our teacher: Sandra Scott.
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Erin Mills
Time: 7:30 – 9:30pm Tuesday Evening. All levels welcome, join us any week. $10 per week
Season 2025: Dancing every Tuesday now until Dec 16th
Location: Cooksville United Church, 2500 Mimosa Row
Teacher: Keith Bark 905.822-1707
Contact: Deirdre MacCuish Bark 905.822-1707
Website: scdmississauga.ca
About the group: This is a beginner-friendly class. All levels of skill and experience are welcome.
We teach steps and formations early in the evening.
How to get there: off Hurontario and S of Dundas — Go west on Floradale, TR onto Mimosa Row. -
Orillia (non affiliated with RSCDS Toronto)
Time: 7:00 – 9:00pm
Season 2025: Jan 07 to July 15 (and we participate in the Orillia Scottish Festival: Saturday Jul 19)
Location: Senior Centre (TIE Club), 56 West St. N. (corner of Coldwater Road and West Street)
Cost: $3 per class
Contact: Barbara Chapman
About the group: Note, at the end of our season we demo at Orillia Scottish Festival which is July 19th 2025!
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Peterborough (non affiliated with RSCDS Toronto)
Season 2025/26
Weekly classes: Tuesday nights, 6:45 – 9:30pm
Social dances with live music by Blair Mackenzie & Helen Batten: Friday nights
Nov 21; Dec 19 & dinner; Jan 23 & Burns Supper; Feb 20; Mar 20; Apr 17
Annual Stoney Lake weekend: May 22-24, 2026
Location: St. John’s Anglican Church Hall, 99 Brock St, Peterborough
Contact: Kathy Armstrong
Website: www.pscds.ca (see website for events and classes)
About the group: Social dances are held Friday evenings at 7pm, usually on the third Friday of the month with music by Blair Mackenzie & Helen Batten.
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