"If you can block out the distant din of traffic and glimpses of high-rises, there are spots along the Don River that could fool you into thinking it is wilderness.
But the omnipresent smell of sewage wafting from dozens of storm drain pipes and culverts that empty into the Don cannot be imagined away, a stinking reminder of the work still needed to clean it up.
We went for a canoe ride Sunday in the annual Paddle the Don event, sponsored by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority and found stunning beauty along its meandering course, in contrast to the bleak iron shoring and multi-lane traffic along its lower stretch.
About 600 people in canoes and kayaks traversed 16 kilometres of the Don, from E.T. Seton Park, near Leslie St. and Eglinton Ave., to the Keating Channel, with some raising money for the Conservation Foundation of Greater Toronto, to be used for river restoration projects.
The Don is normally so shallow that canoes couldn’t be used to navigate it; an upstream dam was opened to raise the water level allow enough to float the craft."
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