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LOWER DON(Pottery Road to Cherry Street) LOWER DON (Pottery Road to Cherry Street) WaImagine a Lower Don River, l in k the late 1800s, teeming with salmon and meandering through wide marshes and tree-lined banks. Imagine the 1900s, with its engineered, channelized watercourse and its banks lined with polluting industries. This degradation of the valley was compounded by the addition of the Don Valley Parkway. Today, the Lower Don is the site of one of the largest urban environmental restoration projects in the world. This walk begins in the richly the Lower Don Trail that runs north/ 1 Public Transit: Getting there; From Broadview Station, all northbound historic site of Todmorden Mills, south. Make another left and proceed buses bring you to Pottery Road (announced as Mortimer). Walk 10 minutes former location of a 19th century paper south along the trail. The Don River down Pottery Road to Todmorden Mills. mill, brewery and gristmill. This gristmill should be on your righthand side. Getting home; Either walk north on Cherry Street to Mill Street or walk was the second gristmill in Upper The trail continues down the south on Cherry Street to Lakeshore Boulevard to take the 72B Pape bus to Canada, the first being on the Humber 2 River. Construction of the Don Valley Don, it passes through a stand Union Station. of wild plum trees. Raspberry canes *Public transit routes and schedules are subject to change. Please check with provider. Parkway (DVP) has isolated a former TTC Information: www.ttc.ca or 416-393-4636. oxbow of the Don River on this site. grow along the trail, possibly obscured Visit the 9.2-hectare Todmorden Mills by large and very invasive stands of Parking: From Pottery Road, enter Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum Wildflower Preserve that has examples Japanese Knotweed. and follow the road to the parking lot. of several native habitats, including Notice a stream gauge house upland forest on the slopes, bottomland 3 on your right, originally Level of Difficulty/Accessibility: The trail is paved and level with the forest, pond, and wet and dry meadows. installed in 1962, under a cost exception of the Todmorden Wildflower Preserve at Point 1. It is stroller and In the spring, watch for yellow Marsh sharing agreement between the wheelchair accessible. Marigolds, the large, bright green Ministry of Natural Resources and leaves of Skunk Cabbage and clusters Environment Canada’s Water Survey Approximate Time: 1 to 2 hours. of White Trilliums, Ontario’s provincial Canada. Inside the gauge house, flower. monitoring equipment measures the Distance: 6.0 kilometres. Walk back towards Pottery Road, water level in the stilling well and turn left (west) on Pottery Road records it into a logger. Toronto and (**NOTE: To ensure safety, please Region Conservation (TRCA) receives Caution: Be aware of cyclists and other trail users at all times. Use the trails automatic polls via cellular modem at your own risk. remain behind the guardrails to avoid oncoming traffic**). Pass under the every five – seven minutes where DVP overpass, where you will meet data from the logger is downloaded. 1 Current as of July 2018 2 The logger also has an alarm component Extension to the DVP. This structure of the river. Once the new wetlands Currently, the area from Riverdale in its software. If water levels rise too is the only section of the proposed were completed, the areas were Park south to Lakeshore Boulevard is fast or exceed a threshold level, an Crosstown Expressway to be built. heavily planted with a huge variety of called the Don Narrows. This trail alarm is automatically sent to TRCA The grand plan in the 1970s was for native plant species. Painted Turtles, section provides the only public Flood Warning staff. the Crosstown to connect the DVP to American Toads, White-tailed Deer access to the Don River through the the Spadina Expressway, an extension and Red Fox, along with many bird Narrows. Vegetation here is either The trail rises close to the DVP 4 of Highway 400. Fortunately, the species have returned to the area. absent or limited to a narrow band and then dips down under the Spadina Expressway was only partly Unfortunately, the area now has many of opportunistic trees, shrubs and imposing 23-metre-high so-called built. The DVP, however, had already invasive species and work continues grasses—usually of the invasive type. Half-mile Bridge, stretching from scarred the valley. to control them. There are continuous efforts to one side of the valley to the other. improve the natural habitat conditions This bridge carried Canadian Pacific Because of so much paving and Further on, the trail passes 9 along the Don Narrows by controlling Railway trains from Toronto to building, the Don River watershed under the disused CPR railway certain invasive plants and planting Montreal on the old Ontario-Quebec has become degraded compared with line, close to the DVP again, and then native species. Railway. The bridge was re-built in pre-urban days. Remediation is a crosses the Don River to the relative the late 1920s, segment by segment, slow and costly process, but inroads peace and quiet of its western bank Continue south to pass under in the intervals between passages of are slowly being achieved. One Here, the river runs straight, having 11 the Gerrard Street and Dundas express trains. This project was an example is Helliwell’s Hill Wetland been controlled severely by engineers Street bridges to Queen Street. Here engineering feat applauded around Restoration Project tucked in along of the past. Large Carp, tolerant of the you have the option to end your walk the world. Beneath this structure the base of the DVP, off to the east of pollution, might be seen in the murky by accessing the stairs to Queen Street grow crowded stands of 3.5-metre the main path. water. Now a nuisance fish, Carp were where you can access the TTC streetcar high, feather-plumed Common Reed, introduced in New York waters across which travels west towards Union Station The valley now opens into a a native species that is now considered 7 Lake Ontario in 1831. Early Toronto on the Yonge-University subway line. invasive. wide floodplain again and residents fi shed in the evening by the passes under the Prince Edward From here, you see the light of flaming torches along this part 12 Passing the half-mile bridge, Viaduct, opened in 1918, to connect massive construction project 5 of the river. Atlantic Salmon was a look across the river and Bloor Street with Danforth Avenue. popular catch. in the West Don Lands. This includes Bayview Avenue to see the relic Its visionary designer included a large municipal parks, recreation buildings and one remaining chimney lower second deck for trains, making A bit further south, pass under facilities and mixed-use housing. The of the Don Valley Brick Works. Three it possible to construct the Bloor- 10 the pedestrian bridge. This dome of earth on which the buildings ponds, wildflower meadows and Danforth subway line 50 years later. bridge provides an option to climb sit serves to divert floodwater from assorted walkways now occupy the Notice the big stand of Teasel along up into Riverdale Park to the west entering the downtown area in old quarry. Mud Creek enters the Don the trail. In earlier days, its dried or Broadview Avenue to the east. the event of a major storm. This River here after flowing through the heads were used for teasing out wool Picture the Don River, before it was area is one of the largest urban ponds of the Brick Works. Evergreen, before it was woven into skeins. channelized, meandering back and development and environmental a national charity, has restored the forth across this wide valley. In the projects in North America, with Just past the viaduct is heritage buildings to create Evergreen 8 first half of the 1900s, this area an estimated completion date of Brick Works which includes a farmers Chester Springs Marsh, which served as a landfill site. During and around 2040. Once complete, it market, workshops, festivals, class is the size of seven football fields. The after a heavy rainfall, avoid this last will serve as an incredible example rooms and studios, art installations, original wetland was destroyed by section of the walk as this low area of how to sustainably connect winter skating, a cafe and much more. municipal landfill between 1912 and floods quickly. This portion of roadway urban development with the natural 1925. A former group, the Task Force is often closed after a major rainfall for environment. Pass under the lengthy ramp to Bring Back the Don raised money 6 the river is swollen with runoff water connecting the Bayview to create new wetlands on both sides from the entire Don watershed. 3 4 Take a few steps further and This project required the relocation contamination as part of the Don carefully as the trail often follows 13 find an old iron Bailey Bridge, of high voltage underground power Mouth Naturalization and Port Lands detours. located beside a gray concrete bridge lines, which were originally located Flood Protection Project and the This walk comes to an end at that is fenced. The Bailey bridge within the river channel alignment. North Keating Precinct Development 20 provided a crossing over the Don River Also aquatic habitat within the new site. Lakeshore Boulevard East in the original alignment of Eastern channel section was established, and Cherry Street. You can visit the Find a fork in the trail. historically rich Distillery District Avenue. To construct a Bailey bridge, and upstream from the bridge a new 18 no special tools or heavy equipment lookout area composed of crushed To continue on this walk, stay walking north on Cherry Street.
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