Reclaiming the Don : an environmental history of Toronto's Don River Valley / Jennifer L. Bonnell.

Main entry:

Bonnell, Jennifer, 1971- author.

Title & Author:

Reclaiming the Don : an environmental history of Toronto's Don River Valley / Jennifer L. Bonnell.

Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

xxx, 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-265) and index.
1. The colonial river -- 2. Making an industrial margin -- 3. Taming a "Monster of Ingratitude" -- 4. Refuge and subsistence in an urban borderland -- 5. Charles Sauriol and the Don Valley conservation Movement -- 6. Metro Toronto and the Don Valley Parkway -- 7. Remembering the Don.
Text in English.

Summary:

Bonnell examines the relationship between the Don River, the Don River Valley, and Toronto from the establishment of the town of York in the 1790s to the construction of the Don Valley Parkway in the 1960s.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9781442643840 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1442643846 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781442612259 (paper ; alk. paper)
1442612258 (paper ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Ecology
Don River Valley (Ont.) Environmental conditions.
Don River Valley (Ont.) History.
Don, Vallée de la (Ont.) Conditions environnementales.
Don, Vallée de la (Ont.) Histoire.
Ontario Don River Valley

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 292841
Call No.: BIB 237364
Status: Available

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