- Brickworks
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Beginning in the 1840s brick works operations began to locate near the Don River to take advantage of the large clay deposits and water power, as well as easy access to the growing city.
- Deserted wilds in city's centre
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
If we are ever going to get a bicycle and pedestrian path, together with other improvements in the area south of Pottery Road we will have to speak up so that our elected representatives can hear us.
- Footpaths
Walking Trails of Scarborough
Resource Type: Book
- Great Country Walks Around Toronto
Within reach by public transit
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- The Great Toronto Bicycling Guide
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- The Hike Ontario Guide to Walks Around Toronto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 199
- Historical Atlas of Toronto
Resource Type: Book
- HTO
Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
A collection of essays on Toronto's water and watershed, ranging from burying streams to storm sewers and rainwater harvesting.
- The Humber
Tales of a Canadian Heritage River
Resource Type: Book
- Humber Forks at Thistletown
Resource Type: Book
- Humber River, Old Mill, and Marshes
Discovery Walks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
- Hurricane Hazel
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
- Hurricane Hazel
Canada's Storm of the Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
- Keating Channel Flood Inquiry Report
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- Landscapes lost, and found
Garrison Creek; downtown's other streams & ravines: reclaiming the life beneath our feet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
A history of the Garrison Creek path in Toronto and how the creek shapes the surrounding landscape and environment, reflecting on the cities relationship with public natural spaces and parks.
- Leave Leslie Spit alone
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
The Leslie Street Spit offers fresh air, rugged scenery, waves, shoreline and wildlife.
- Legacy
The Natural History of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
A comprehensive, extensively illustrated natural history of Ontario, covering bedrock, soils, birds, mammals, insects, wildflowers, forests, prehistoric life, and much more.
- A Little Wilderness
A Natural History of Toronto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- More Than an Island
A History of the Toronto Island
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
A thorough history of the natural, social, political, and economic history of the Toronto Island.
- Nature Hikes
Near-Toronto Trails and Adventures
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Oak Ridges Moraine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Members of the Oak Ridges Moraine (STORM) Coalition - naturalists, botanists, geologists, historians, writers, photographers -- celebrate the special nature of the Moraine in this collection of essays and photographers.
- 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.
- Only Seven Days Left to Save The Humber River Clean-Up: Founder Seeking Local Business Sponsors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Founder seeking local business sponsors for Humber River clean-up
- Over the Don
Resource Type: Book
- The Physiography of Southern Ontario
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
The book begins with a brief account of the bedrock of Southern Ontario, continues with its galcial geology, then treats all its surface features, including river valleys, in some detail. The second half describes the physiography and land use and settlement of each of fifty-two regions. It ends with a brief summary, a glossary, and a bibliography.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Reclaiming Toronto's Don River
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
- Regeneration
Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City
Resource Type: Book
- Remembering the Don
A Rare Record of Earlier Times Within the Don River Valley
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
Memories of Toronto's Don River in days gone by.
- Road Rocks Ontario
Over 250 Geological Wonders to Discover
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Presents detailed descriptions of over 250 of the most fascinating geological wonders of Ontario.
- Rouge Valley
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
Article in Seasons, Spring 1990.
- 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.
- Saving the Rouge
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
Article in the October-November 1991 issue of Canadian Geographic.
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- Special Places
The Changing Ecosystems of the Toronto Region
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Special Places explores the changing ecosystem of the Toronto area over the past century, looking at the environmental conditions that influence the whol region and at the surprising range of plants and animals you can find in many of its natural spaces.
- Spring sprung, grass riz, wonder where birdies is
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
Some days, when you go outside, an icy wind sneaks up on you and quickly tears away your warm illusions about winter being over. This, you think, shivering, is supposed to be spring? Still, whether we're ready to believe it or not, spring is upon us, and if we go out and look for it, we'll come across signs that establish that fact much more firmly and decisively than the passing moods of the weather.
- Todmorden Mills
A Human and Natural History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
An urban natural history pamphlet.
- Toronto Islands
Plant Communities and Noteworthy Species
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Toronto Ravines - Ours to Preserve
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1982
Toronto's ravines are a treasure; it's up to us to preserve them.
- Toronto Rocks
The Geological Legacy of the Toronto Region
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Toronto’s urban geology.
- Toronto The Wild
Field Notes of an Urban Naturalist
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
Toronto as a natural world and and ecosystem.
- Toronto's Ravines
Walking the Hidden Country
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Trails of the Don
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Charles Sauriol recalls Toronto's Don Valley.
- The Urban Landscape
A Study of Open Space in Urban Metropolitan Areas
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
- The Valley of the Humber 1615-1903
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Watershed Plan Highlights
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
- Wetland Plants of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
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