The Don is a river in the southern part of Ontario , Canada . Falls into Lake Ontario in the area of Toronto harbor. The mouth of the river was originally located east of York, which eventually became the city of Toronto, Ontario .
| Don | |
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| English Don | |
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| Watercourse | |
| Source(T) (B) | |
| • Coordinates | |
| Mouth | Ontario |
| • Height | 75 m |
| • Coordinates | |
| Location | |
| Water system | Ontario → St. Lawrence River → Atlantic Ocean |
| A country |
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| Region | Ontario |
 - source  - mouth | |
The Don is formed by the confluence of two rivers, the Eastern and Western Branches, which are found approximately 7 km north of Lake Ontario . The height of the mouth - 75 m above sea level.
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History
People first appeared in the river around 10,500 years BC. e., most likely, as nomadic hunters. [1] Although little archaeological evidence was found in the valley of the river itself, finds from the Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence River showed that permanent settlements began to emerge around 4000 BC. er [2]
It is unclear exactly how the river was named in the language of the local Aborigines. In 1788, Alexander Aitkin, an English surveyor who worked in the southern part of Ontario, designated the Don River as Ne cheng qua kekonk . [3] Elizabeth Simcoe, the wife of Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe , mentioned another name in her diary, Wonscotanach . [4] This phrase in the Ojibwe language means “a river flowing from the burned lands” , which can refer to previous forest fires on the poplar plains in the north. [5] The name Don gave Lieutenant-Governor Simkow, as the river reminded him of the River Don in Yorkshire, England. [6]
Notes
- ↑ Task Force to Bring Back the Don. August 1991. Bringing Back the Don. City of Toronto.
- ↑ Civilization.ca. (inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is May 1, 2017. Archived October 12, 2006.
- ↑ City of Toronto Toronto Golf History .
- ↑ Robertson, JR 2001. The Diary of Mrs. John Graves Simcoe. Toronto, Ont. Prospero Books.
- ↑ Scadding, 1873 , p. 233.
- ↑ ODPD, 1950 , p. Part IV, 1.
Literature
- Leigh Bonnell, Jennifer. The Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley Imagined Futures and Unintended Consequences. - thesis, University of Toronto, 2010.
- Brown, Ron. Toronto's Lost Villages. - Polar Bear Press, 1997. - ISBN 1896757022 .
- Ontario Department of Planning and Development. Don Valley Conservation Report. - Toronto, Ontario, 1950.
- Sauriol, Charles (1981) Remembering the Don River Valley . Consolidated Amethyst Communications. ISBN 0-920474-22-5
- Sauriol, Charles (1984) Tales of the Don . Natural Heritage / Natural History. ISBN 0-920474-30-6
- Sauriol, Charles. Trails of the Don. - Hemlock Press, 1992. - ISBN 0-929066-10-3 .
- Scadding, Henry. Toronto of Old. - Adam, Stevenson & Co., 1873.