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Scarborough
Invitation: Well-Informed Social Dancing – you’ll learn dances, and the history of the dances. Both beginners and experience dancers are most welcome.
Time: 7:30 – 9:30pm
Season 2025: Started on September 8th!
Location: Royal Canadian Legion Woodbine Heights Br. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave, East York
Teacher: Nigel Keenan 416.762-3060
Contact: Lourdes Genosa 416.762-3060
About the group: You’ll find us at the Woodbine Legion, on the second level, which features a comfortable wooden floor and washroom facilities. Join us for a very social evening, where we never forget. . . every dance starts and ends with a ‘bow and curtsy’.
How to get there: Enter carpark off Dunkirk Ave, immediately North of the Legion. When you see the mural of Spitfires and ships, get ready to turn.Message for the upcoming class
Dear Scarborough SCDers,
Well, the previous Monday class was a “Lucky Night” for our only “REEL” man Douglas! He got to dance The Britannia Two Step & The Threesome Reel with a DIFFERENT set of TWA ladies TWICE and then capped-it-off by dancing Domino Five & The Reel of Five with ALL four ladies!
This week is our “Final Fling” for the season so get your choices in ASAP. Otherwise, you’ll be stuck with Teacher’s “choice”! So far we have The Montgomerie’s Rant, The Australian Ladies, The Irish Rover, John of Bon Accord, Bonnie Stronshiray, and Monymusk. Keep your requests coming so as many dancers’ as possible can be accommodated.
Current program and About dances on the programHISCD
Nigel & Lourdes
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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 2026/27: September 15 – December 8, 2026; January 5 – May 18, 2027
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 2026/27: September 15 – December 8, 2026; January 5 – May 18, 2027
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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Woodglen
Invitation: We invite any interested dancers (beginners welcome) to join us on Friday nights
Time: 7:45 – 9:45pm
Winter/Spring 2026: Every Friday January 9 – May 15
Location: Fallingbrook Presbyterian Church, Kingston Rd. at Wood Glen, Scarborough (Halfway between Victoria Park & Warden)
Teacher: Deirdre MacCuish Bark 905.822-1707
Contact: John Clark 416.605-5483
Cost: $10/class (session rate available). Cheques are payable to Sue Ann Bryce.
About the group: Each week the dances for the class will be added to the following Strathspey Server dance list: https://my.strathspey.org/dd/list/46272/
We ask that you please advise me if you are unable to attend.
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