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Title	Brick Works
Creator.Entities	Baird/Sampson Associates, Architects
Notes	Built 1999. Project Description: This 40.7 acre reclaimed brick works represents a significant natural and historical site in Canada. Through major building and landscape restoration the site provides new wildlife habitats, water filtration, public access and historic preservation of the original industrial buildings. The site is located in the lower Don River area. The river follows a narrow, steeply sloped valley south through some of the region's most developed densely populated neighborhoods. Historically this site became a productive industrial area which supported a brick factory in the 19th and 20th centuries producing brick until 1989. Much of the brick factory building still exists on the site. Behind the building is a massive excavated site where clay was mined for use in the making bricks. After the brick works closed this area was filled to its present height with earth and rock excavated from construction sites around Toronto. To restore this landscape to its original function as a habitat for wildlife such as beaver, porcupine, timber wolf, black bear and otter, the renaturalization of the marshland was required. Elevated walkways and paths provide public access to the site. Interpretive signing describes its historical and natural values. As part of the rehabilitation of Mud Creek, a series of wetland environment have been constructed to provide habitats for aquatic plants and wildlife and to create an environment whereby the water from Mud Creek can be filtered naturally before it flows into the Don River out to Lake Ontario. As water moves from one pond to another it is filtered. A wildlife meadow was reintroduced through the use of seeds and plants. Grasses include Little Blue Stem, Side Oats Grama, Canada Blue Join and Canada Annual Rye. These plants constituted about 70% of the types found in many old field meadows of Southern Ontario. Sponsor/Developer: Partnership led by Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority with major project funding provided by the Province of Ontario. Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, The Conservation Foundation of Greater Toronto, and Great Lakes 2000 Cleanup Foundation. Project Location: Lower Don River, south of Pottery Rd, north of Resendale Valley Road. Size: 40.7 acres
Description	Marshland and brickworks
Subject.Entities	Baird/Sampson Associates, Architects
Subject	Parks Wetland management Landscape architecture Restoration ecology Brickworks -- Conservation and restoration Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration Urban renewal
Location	Don Valley Brick Works (Don River Valley, Ont.) Ontario -- Toronto
Title.Series	Urban Ecology: the Urban/Wilderness Boundary, Part I
Collection Title	Landscape Architecture
Publisher.Location	Seattle, WA
Publisher	Art on FIle
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/archt_copyright.html
Collection information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193
Full resolution	Volume1\UEI-06-13-06.jpg http://0-contentdm.unl.edu.library.unl.edu/fullres/Landscape_architecture/Volume1\UEI-06-13-06.jpg

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