Call for Volunteers: TSA Tour Guides

Looking to share your love for Toronto and want to help further the public’s appreciation for and understanding of our city’s built environment? Come join us as a TSA Walking Tour Guide!

For over 15 years, our popular TSA Walking Tours program has been among the Society’s largest and most visible public outreach programs. Every year we offer a variety of high-quality, educational, and entertaining tours exploring Toronto’s modern and contemporary architecture and landscapes, while touching on issues of design and city building.

Our TSA Tour Guides are skilled ambassadors, presenters, and educators, serving as interpreters of Toronto’s built environment. Our Tour Guides come from all walks of life, but they share a few common traits—they’re curious, reliable, and self-motivated, not to mention natural public speakers. They are also flexible, open to feedback, and enjoy interacting with people from all over the world. Most importantly, they are passionate about architecture and Toronto and want to share this passion with others.

What to expect?

New TSA Tour Guides commit to giving a minimum of 2 public tours per month (approximately 8-10 tours total) during their first season as a Tour Guide, after which an average of 6-8 tours per year is expected. Our tour season typically runs from May through to the end of October, with all public tours occurring on the weekends. Private tours are sometimes also provided during regular business hours on weekdays (subject to individual Tour Guide availability).

New Tour Guides will begin by learning one tour, but are encouraged to learn others in future seasons. Training will mostly take place in-person in April and May, with assignments and scripts distributed earlier in the year (February) to provide sufficient time for study.

Important Dates

• Interviews | October 28-29, 2025
• Tour Assignments and New Guide Orientation | February 2026
• In-Person Training | April 2026
• Practice Tours | April – May 2026
• Public Tour Season | May – October 2026

Ready to Volunteer? 

Please send us an email at tsa@torontosocietyofarchitects.ca with your resume and a short expression of interest paragraph that highlights why you want to volunteer as a TSA Tour Guide. Selected candidates will be contacted for an interview held in the last week of October.

Anyone applying to be a TSA Tour Guide is required to have attended at least 2 TSA Walking Tours in the past year. If you haven’t done so yet, tours are being offered every weekend from now until the end of October. You can check out all our upcoming tours and get your tickets here.

Applications are due by Sunday, October 19, 2025 (deadline has passed).

Still have questions?

Have questions about these positions or volunteering with the TSA in general? You can watch the recording of our Volunteer Info Session here (hosted on Sept. 17) or get in touch via email at tsa@torontosocietyofarchitects.ca.

Above image by Kurtis Chen.