The Don River is a watercourse in southern Ontario that empties into Lake Ontario, at Toronto Harbour. Its mouth was just east of the street grid of the town of York, Upper Canada, the municipality that evolved into Toronto, Ontario.

Nov 8, 2024 · The new Don River is now complete – along with a brand new island! With the removal of the “north plug”, a waterfront city within a city is coming into view.

Covering an area of approximately 36,000 hectares, the Don River stretches almost 38 km in length, flowing south from its headwaters on the Oak Ridges Moraine to the Keating Channel, where it empties into Lake Ontario.

Nov 8, 2024 · Waterfront Toronto has removed the last pieces of the wall that once separated the mouth of the Don River and Lake Ontario as a next step in a project featuring a new island that could become...

Nov 8, 2024 · A decades-long dream to restore the Don River to its original natural route through the Port Lands became a reality with the removal of the sole remaining dam.

The Toronto waterway system comprises a series of natural and man-made watercourses in the Canadian city of Toronto. The city is dominated by a large river system spanning most of the city including the Don River, Etobicoke Creek, Highland Creek, Humber River, Mimico Creek and Rouge River. [1]

The Lower Don River West Remedial Flood Protection Project will protect human life and infrastructure from flooding by permanently removing approximately 210 hectares of Toronto from the Regulatory Flood Plain, west and north of the Don River Mouth.

Sep 13, 2021 · By 2024, the project will have created a new urban island with parks, cycling infrastructure and extensive habitats for wildlife, formed by a new mouth of the Don River currently being dug...

The Don River is a watercourse in southern Ontario that empties into Lake Ontario, at Toronto Harbour. Its mouth was just east of the street grid of the town of York, Upper Canada, the municipality that evolved into Toronto, Ontario.

Toronto’s $1.3 billion Port Lands Flood Protection Project (PLFP) has reached a pivotal stage, with water now filling the naturalized human-made Don River mouth and birthing a new island in the process.