This nature reserve in Toronto was once a POW camp Toronto
Todmorden Mills is a small piece of historic land sitting in one of the greenest stretches of Toronto: the Don Valley.
Historically, Todmorden Mills' inception as a small settlement began with early Town of York's need for lumber, established in the heart of the valley in 1795.Powered by the water from the Don River, Todmorden's sawmill created construction materials which were transported south to York via several roads connecting to the shore of Lake Ontario, including Broaview and Pottery Road as we know them today.
In later years, the 'Dirty Thirties' brought many unemployed men to the area, where they sought refuge in the valley and in the kilns of the Don Valley Brickworks during winter.More dramatically, the years during WWII saw the site become a holding ground for German prisoners of war, where they laboured in the neighbouring Don Valley Brick Works before being repatriated in 1945.
Re-opened as the Todmorden Mills Historic Site in 1967 under the eye of East York's mayor True Davidson and conservationist Charles Sauriol, the mill site also housed the Don railways station before it migrated down to Roundhouse Park after 40 years.The Don River has suffered extensively due to all the industrialization, the most damaging of all being the construction of the DVP. Several convervationist groups have assembled since the 1940s to protect and restore the area.
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