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Department of History, York University
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CBC Radio interview on Reclaiming the Don

November 7, 2014 · by Jennifer Bonnell · in Reclaiming the Don

The following interview with Karen Gordon, guest host of CBC Toronto’s afternoon program, Here and Now, aired on CBC Radio 1 on October 8, 2014. Karen and I discuss the historical relationship between the Don River Valley and the evolving…

How the Don River Defined Toronto

August 14, 2014 · by Jennifer Bonnell · in Reclaiming the Don

By Mark Brosens. Originally published on The Inside Agenda Blog, 14 August 2014 The Don River is easy to dismiss as a muddy stream surrounded by some of Toronto’s busiest roads. But a new book is coming out that argues…

Writing the Environmental History of Toronto’s Don Valley Parkway

Writing the Environmental History of Toronto’s Don Valley Parkway

November 14, 2011 · by Jennifer Bonnell · in Uncategorized

When I first began to explore the history of Toronto’s Don River Valley five years ago, the story of the major highway that runs through the valley failed to capture my imagination. I was interested in the effects of highway…

History from the Urban Fringe

History from the Urban Fringe

March 1, 2011 · by Jennifer Bonnell · in Uncategorized

Toronto’s Lower Don River slides unceremoniously along the eastern limits of the old city core, its muddied, placid channel host to the scattered wreckage of twenty-first-century urban living: plastic bags snagged at intervals along its length; a rusting shopping cart…

Recent Posts

  • Two Writing Awards for Stewards of Splendour
  • Podcast Feature – Writing the Coast: BC & Yukon Book Prizes
  • Don River history referenced in Globe and Mail article on July 2024 Floods
  • Newstalk 1010 Radio Interview with John Moore on the history of the Don River, 25 May 2023
  • Reclaiming the Don featured in Guardian story about changes to the river mouth

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