3/2/2023 0 Comments Tcel stock stories![]() ![]() If arriving by car, there will be ample parking near the station.Īrrival: Rouge Hill GO station- It is a circuit route. Note: If using a PRESTO card, tap-off terminals are located at the tunnel exit very close to the station building. If you are planning to take GO Transit, please travel on the train which arrives at 1:53 pm to be on time for the 2 pm start. ![]() Learn about its evolution as well as the dynamic presence of Indigenous peoples and French explorers until the time of British colonisation.ĭeparture: 2:00 pm from inside the Rouge Hill GO station (on the Lakeshore East Route). To mark both World Rivers Day and Franco-Ontarian Day, you are invited to join us in an exploration of the natural and human history surrounding the area near the mouth of the Rouge River. With an optional additional exploration of the Rouge wetlands. Sunday, October 2 from 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm, Offered jointly by Lost Rivers and la Société d’histoire de Toronto The public washroom along the trail may not be open. Washroom at beginning and end of walk at nearby restaurants. Car: there is free parking alongside the Tim Hortons and Subway on the east side of Don Mills RoadĪ loop of approx 4.3km on paved, gravel and dirt paths with two steep hills and a short set of stairs. Getting here:Transit #25 bus from Pape subway station, get off at Gateway Blvd. Meet at 760 Don Mills Rd, Toronto - S/W corner of Don Mills Road and Gateway Blvd. Walk leaders: Floyd Ruskin and John Wilson We will also discuss the settler history of the people that made the area home. Leaving from just south of the Ontario Science Centre, the walk will take us down into the ravine and through this historic and beautiful part of the Don Valley where using archival maps along with new maps we will search for the remnants of the mill. The area was further altered when the land became a public park with much landscaping. Decommissioned early in the 1900s, the complex was finally dismantled in the 1930s for the valuable 40' pine rafters, other timber and stonework. Today, part of ET Seton Park covers the site and almost all vestiges (including the pond) of this huge complex are long gone. Water was the source of power for the mills, but as the Don River's flow is erratic, a dam with a huge mill pond was created to maintain a consistent water flow to the Upper Mill turbine. The Taylor "Middle Mill" was located by Beechwood Drive and the "Lower Mill " (Todmorden) at Pottery Road ![]() In the first of the 'Mill' series, we will explore and search for the remains of the largest of three Taylor Family mills on the Don River.Īmong other enterprises, most notably the Don Valley Brick Company, the family also operated three mill complexes within the Don Valley with the largest being the "Upper Mill" located just north of the Forks of the Don. The Taylor Family were industrialist/entrepreneurs that owned vast acreage in the Don Valley and surrounding area (approx 4,000 acres) through the mid 19th century into the early 20th century. Lost Rivers' Three Mills Series: Part One ![]()
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