The Don River is one of two rivers bounding the original settled area of Toronto along the shore of Lake Ontario, the other being the Humber River to the west. The Don is formed from two rivers, the East and West Branches, that meet about 7 km north of Lake Ontario while flowing southward into the lake. The area below the confluence is known as the lower Don, and the areas above as the upper Don. The Don is also joined at the confluence by a third major branch, Taylor Massey Creek. }|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Official Flag]]|Coat Image=[[Image:{{{Coat Image}}}|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Coat of Arms]]}} {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Diversity Our Strength {{Canadian City/Location Image is:{{{Location Image Type}}}|[[Image:{{{Location Image}}}|thumbnail|250px|City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Location. ... Lake Ontario seen from near Wolcott, New York Lake Ontario, bounded on the north by Ontario and on the south by Ontarios Niagara Peninsula and by New York State, is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. ... This article is about the river in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Lake Ontario seen from near Wolcott, New York Lake Ontario, bounded on the north by Ontario and on the south by Ontarios Niagara Peninsula and by New York State, is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. ... Taylor Creek is a tributary of the Don River, Toronto, in Ontario Canada. ...

The eastern arm of the rivers starts near the Oak Ridges Moraine just to the west of Yonge Street, flowing south-eastward through ravine forests in Richmond Hill, Thornhill, east of Willowdale and Don Mills. A second branch of the eastern Don, known as German Mills Creek, parallels the main eastern branch and joins it at Steeles Avenue, the northern boundary of Toronto. The Oak Ridges Moraine is a geographic area in southern Ontario, Canada stretching from Milton to Rice Lake, near Peterborough. ... Yonge Street in Toronto before a marathon Yonge Street (pronounced young), located in Ontario, Canada, is a major arterial street in Toronto and a provincial highway. ... Richmond Hill (2001 population 132,030) is a town in York Region north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Thornhill is a former village in Ontario, directly north of Toronto, and is currently shared by two municipalities, the city of Vaughan having the portion west of Yonge Street and the town of Markham having the eastern portion. ... Willowdale is an established and affluent community in the former City of North York, now part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Don Mills is a new town in Toronto, Ontario. ... German Mills Creek is one of the Don Rivers major tributary streams located just northwest of and flows through Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. ...

The western half starts near the area of Maple, flowing south-west through the suburban industrial belt of Concord (Vaughan), a reservoir, and then through the York Mills and Leaside areas before joining the eastern half. It crosses Yonge Street at Hogg's Hollow. Taylor Creek runs almost due west from Scarborough. Maple is not to be confused with a subdivision of Burlington Maple is a high-growth suburban community located northwest of Toronto. ... Concord is a suburban community located northwest of Toronto. ... Vaughan (2001 population 182,022)[1] is a city in York Region north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Generally, a reservoir is something that can hold matter or energy. ... York Mills is the name for the area around Yonge Street and York Mills Road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Leaside is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario. ... Hoggs Hollow is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada which is located in a depression in the land centred on the intersection of Yonge Street and York Mills Avenue/Wilson Avenue. ... {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: {{Canadian City/Location Image is:{{{Location Image Type}}}|[[Image:{{{Location Image}}}|thumbnail|250px|City of Scarborough (Dissolved), Ontario, Canada Location. ...

Charles Sauriol Conservation Reserve is located near the forks of the Don River. It was at one time home of a Maple sugar shack and tapline, which was visited yearly by students from across East York. Charles Sauriol Conservation Reserve is a rarely used area of the river valley. Charles Sauriol was a historic protector of the Don.

The mouth of the Don was relocated some 500 m to the west by a land expansion of about 3 km² to make room for an industrial area. This also moved the confluence further from the lake, to 7 km from about 6 km before the expansion. Unlike the mouth of the Humber, which is located in a recreational area and is navigable, the mouth of the Don is located in a heavily industrialized area, and spanned by a number of low bridges which make navigation impassable. In late 2000, several plans were being drawn up to redevelop the area, including relocating the mouth closer to its original location, and developing a canal system around the area.

The Don had been heavily developed in the earlier portions of the 20th century, with several factories, two rail lines and then a freeway, the Don Valley Parkway, being built in the river valley. The last of the industrial plants, Domtar Polyresins, closed in the 1980s and has since been reused as the Toronto Police Force K-9 training site. The only remaining industrial use on urban portions of the river is the North Toronto Sewage Treatment plant, whose use is currently under review. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... A typical rural freeway (Interstate 5 in the Central Valley of California). ... Don Valley Parkway, looking northbound, in typical rush-hour traffic The Don Valley Parkway (often referred to as the DVP or simply as the Parkway) is a controlled-access freeway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, so named because it runs through the scenic Don River Valley. ... Belgian Malinois as K-9 unit A police dog is a dog that is trained specifically to assist police and similar law-enforcement personnel with their work. ... Sewage treatment is the process that removes the majority of the contaminants from waste-water or sewage and produces both a liquid effluent suitable for disposal to the natural environment and a sludge. ...

Much of Taylor Creek and the southern portion of the western branch are surrounded by parkland. In more recent years the retreat of the industrial plants and rail infrastructure has freed up room which is now being turned into bicycling trails, which now extend from the shore of Lake Ontario northward in several directions to provide some 30km of off-road paved trails. While Toronto is fairly flat in general, local cyclists have developed a number of technically challenging singletrack trails throughout the area, following the main trails. Cycling is a recreation, a transport across land. ... A singletrack is a small off-road trail used by cyclists. ...

Tributaries

• Don River (lower Don)
  • Castle Frank Brook
  • Yellow Creek
  • Mud Creek
  • Cudmore Creek
• Don River West Branch
  • Wilket Creek
  • Walmsley Creek
  • Burke Brook
• Don River East Branch
  • Taylor Massey Creek
  • German Mills Creek

Taylor Creek is a tributary of the Don River, Toronto, in Ontario Canada. ... German Mills Creek is one of the Don Rivers major tributary streams located just northwest of and flows through Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. ...

See also

• List of Ontario rivers

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External links

• Our Valley (http://web.295.ca/mbmusic/)
• Task Force to Bring back the Don (http://www.toronto.ca/don)
• Friends of the Don East (http://www.web.net/~fode/)
• Don Watershed Regeneration (http://www.mwilson.on.ca/don.html)
• Don Valley Trail Users' Club (cyclists) (http://www.dvtuc.com/index/)
• Map of, and links to, the buried waterways of Toronto (http://www.lostrivers.ca/centralkey.htm), including the Don tributaries Castle Frank Creek, Yellow Creek, Mud Creek, Cudmore Creek, Walmsley Brook and Burke Brook.