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  1. Don River Day points out pollution, abuse of river
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1981
    Dumping contaminants into the Don River is supposedly no longer allowed, but it continues and the effects are serious.
  2. Local Places In the Age of the Global City
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
  3. Many bridges have spanned the Don River
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    A history of early bridges spanning Toronto's Don River.
  4. Of time and the river
    The Don: salmon to sludge to concrete; in time, to life revived

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    A history of the Don River in Toronto and reflections on its relationship with the city and citizenship as a natural space, and its decline and renewal.
  5. Provincial ministry stocks Don River with Salmon
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1975
    In Toronto's past, the Don River was famous for its salmon run. Now [1975] the Ministry of Natural Resources is trying to re-stock the river with salmon.
  6. A quiet walk along the Don
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    What you don't see in the lower Don Valley are human beings. Right here the stream is flowing through what must be the densest population area that any river in Canada flows through. There are lots of people up there on the streets and buildings and zipping along the thruways, but almost none of them get down here beside this peaceful stretch of the river.
  7. Reclaiming the Don
    An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Illuminates the impact of the Don River Valley on Toronto's development and unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city.
  8. Salmon - and canoes - in the Don River?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    In the 1920's, when this writer was growing up in what was then referred to as the east end of the city, the valley of the Don was the favourite haunt of thousands of kids and quite a few adults. In those days you could get down into the valley from a number of areas and go wandering up and down pretty well as you pleased.


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