Learn a little of Toronto's history as told through its plaques.
Charles Sauriol Conservation Reserve
Photo by Alan L Brown - October, 2008
Photo by Alan L Brown - October, 2008
Photo Source - Wikipedia
If you travel northbound on Don Mills Road, take the first right past the Don Valley Parkway interchange. Take the next left and you will find yourself in a parking lot. Just before that lot on the west side can be found this rock on which is attached a 1989 Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority plaque. Here's what it says:
In 1831, on this site at the Forks of the Don, then known as the Boatbildery, Capt. Philippe De Grassi, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, drew a grant of 80 ha on which he settled with his family. In the early 1920's, Charles Sauriol of the 45th East Toronto Troop of Boy Scouts camped in this valley, and so began his career as a conservationist. In 1927, Charles Sauriol acquired part of the De Grassi Tract. From that date, he dedicated himself to the preservation of the Don Valley's natural resources. His lifelong determination and dream of the East Valley of the Don protected as a publicly-owned conservation reserve became a reality on September 6, 1989.
Plaque Location Co-ordinates: 43.704111 -79.333606
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