Lambton House Hotel & Lower Humber River Lambton House Hotel & Lower Humber River
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GETTING THERE AND BACK Discover an early Victorian hotel and In 1720, the French established a fort on the You can reach the suggested start and/or end-point stagecoach stop. Pass the site of a former plateau to trade in furs with the First Nations. by taking the BLOOR/DANFORTH subway to First Nations village. Enjoy nature in the In 1820, the Honourable Jacques Bâby acquired 200 Old Mill Station or by taking the Lambton bus DISCOVERY WALKS lower Humber River valley acres of land on the east bank of the Humber River from High Park Station or Kipling Station. including this plateau. Since then, the area has become THE ROUTE known as Baby Point LAMBTONLAMBTON This Discovery Walk leads you on a loop through the lower Humber River valley between Dundas Street THE HUMBER, HOUSE HOTEL and Bloor Street. Although you can begin this walking A CANADIAN HERITAGE RIVER HOUSE HOTEL tour at any place along the route, a good starting The Humber, the largest river system in the Toronto point is the restored Lambton House (originally the region, was designated a Canadian Heritage River in && LOWERLOWER Lambton House Hotel) on Old Dundas Street. From 1999. A plaque commemorating this event is located Lambton House, walk clockwise through historic in Brûlé Park. The ancient Toronto Carrying Place neighbourhoods to Etienne Brûlé Park. From Trail follows the high ground east of the river. HUMBERHUMBER there, you can walk up either side of the The river valley is a natural Inoquois Village of Teiaiagon Ivan Koksis ©Royal Ontario Museum river back to the starting point. corridor for birds and other RIVERRIVER wildlife. Look for signs of FOR MORE INFO LAMBTON MILLS beaver activity along the For more information on Discovery Walks, including AND THE LAMBTON river. Also, watch for brochures, please call Access Toronto at 416-338-0338. HOUSE HOTEL the many wildflowers For more information on area history, inquire at the One In A Series of Self-Guided Walks Lambton Mills was blooming in the Jane-Dundas, Runnymede or Annette Branches of the established in 1807 when valley from spring to Toronto Public Library. William Cooper fall. Discovery Walks is a program of self-guided walks purchased land and built More than 25 fish that links City ravines, parks, gardens, beaches and saw, grist and woollen mills species inhabit this part neighbourhoods. Other Discovery Walks include: on both sides of the river close of the river. These include Central Ravines, Beltline and Gardens; Don Valley Hills to Old Dundas Street. pike, bass, perch, trout and and Dales; Western Ravines and Beaches; Northern By the 1850s, Lambton Mills was a salmon. In the fall, look for salmon Ravines and Gardens; Eastern Ravine and Beaches; thriving community. W. P. Howland, who was a leaping over the notched weirs as they Garrison Creek; Humber River, Old Mill and Marshes; Humber River at Baby Point Father of Confederation, owned, with his brothers, © Rosemary Hasner/TRCA swim upriver to spawn. Uptown Toronto; Downtown Toronto; and Humber all the Cooper enterprises and had built the Lambton Arboretum and West Humber River (Open 2004). House Hotel on the east side of the river. This hotel THE FISHER MILL was a social centre for the area and a stagecoach stop AND HURRICANE HAZEL WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP Thomas Fisher built a gristmill here in the 1830s. The Lambton House Hotel & Lower Humber River along the Dundas Highway. It has now been restored and was designated a National Historic Site in 1997. You can still see traces of the ruins among the trees Discovery Walk is a partnership project of the City of Lambton House Hotel (circa 1860) Heritage York Toronto and Toronto and Region Conservation bordering the picnic area. Authority (TRCA). The partners would like to thank TEIAIAGON AND BABY POINT Hurricane Hazel struck southern Ontario on the Toronto Public Library, Toronto Field Naturalists, The plateau at the top of the shale and limestone cliff October 15, 1954 sending a wall of water 7 metres was home to First Peoples for thousands of years. high down this river valley. Look for a nearby plaque the Humber Heritage Committee, Toronto Public onservatIon Health and members of the Humber Watershed CTORONTO AND REGION Humbercrest Boulevard traces the path of the ancient honouring five volunteer firemen who drowned in a Alliance for their valuable contributions and the Canada Carrying Place Trail that existed along the eastern side rescue attempt during the flood. Millennium Partnership Program for financial support. of the plateau. During the late 1600s, a fortified Iroquois village, called Teiaiagon, was located there. Discovery Walks name and logo are official marks of the City of Toronto. .