City Pedalling: Don River Murals

Toronto’s Love Letter Project is a group of murals painted on some of the support pillars for the on- and off-ramps connecting the Don Valley Parkway to the Gardiner Expressway. These ramps cross over the mouth of the Don River just north of where it turns 90 degrees to the west and becomes the Keating Channel.

The murals can be reached on bike from the east by using the Lake Shore East Recreational Trail. It can be reached from the north or west by using the Lower Don River Trail.

To me, the theme of the murals is what the Don River once was and what it could be again. They are a project of the PangeaSeed Foundation.

↑ The southernmost pillar is the tallest. This pillar has the river’s current name as well as its former name. The river was known to the Mississaugas as the Wonscotonach. It was renamed in the 1790s by John Graves Simcoe, who was then the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada.