Walking on Roncesvalles Ave West End Toronto 🇨🇦

Roncesvalles Avenue takes its name from the Battle of Roncesvalles, which took place in the Roncesvalles Pass in Spain in 1813. (The name 'Roncesvalles' means 'valley of thorns' in Spanish.) At this gorge, Colonel Walter O'Hara-an early 19th-century Irish settler who played a significant role in the establishment of the neighborhood-led a regiment that fought against the retreating army of Napoleon.