Toronto Star Article on Biidaasige Park
Jennifer Bonnell featured in a Toronto Star article by Mahdis Habibinia and David Rider about the new Biidaasige Park at the mouth of the Don.
CBC Metro Morning Interview on the History of the Don River
David Common interviews Jennifer Bonnell about “how the Don River resurrected back to life” on a segment of CBC Metro Morning.
Muddy York: A Toronto History Podcast
A new episode of Muddy York: A Toronto History Podcast is out now, featuring Jennifer Bonnell discussing the Don River Valley.
Reclaiming the Don in the Literary Review of Canada
Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley was recently reviewed in the Literary Review of Canada. You can read Dan Rubenstein’s review, “How the valley continues to shape Toronto,” in the June 2025 issue: https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2025/06/a-new-don/
Two Writing Awards for Stewards of Splendour
York University’s History Department website recognizes Stewards of Splendour for winning two writing awards: “Associate Professor Jennifer Bonnell, from the Department of History, won two awards for her book, Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia (Royal BC Museum,…
Podcast Feature – Writing the Coast: BC & Yukon Book Prizes
Jennifer Bonnell talks about the changing perspectives around conservation in British Columbia on Season 6, Episode 29 of the Writing the Coast: BC & Yukon Book Prizes podcast. “In this episode, Jennifer Bonnell talks about her book Stewards of Splendour: A…
Don River history referenced in Globe and Mail article on July 2024 Floods
A Globe and Mail article by Alex Bozikovic, 31 August 2024, “Toronto’s Don River floods offer urgent planning lessons for climate-challenged cities”: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-torontos-don-river-floods-and-plans-to-prevent-more-chaos-offer-urgent
Reclaiming the Don featured in Guardian story about changes to the river mouth
A news article written “By Leyland Cecco”: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/22/toronto-don-river-roars-back-to-life
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