Toronto’s Ravines AND Urban Forests : Their natural heritage and local history

Jason Ramsay-Brown has had a lifelong fascination with ravines, and he has spent years exploring them and discovering their little-known history.

• Gates Gully in the Scarborough Bluffs area, a crossroads of natural heritage and local history
• Glendon Forest, with a beautiful old-growth forest area at risk because of the impact of visitation on highly environmentally sensitive areas
• Taylor Creek Park in the East York area, an example of the city’s sewershed and the value of wetlands
• Passmore Forest and L’Amoreaux Park North and its 600-year-old Alexandra aboriginal site where 800 Huron-Wendat people lived
• Rouge Park on the city’s eastern edge, and the story of a proposed urban national park
• With extensive visuals illustrating the text, this is a book which will inform and surprise every Torontonian, and which will allow visitors an easy path to discover the riches of the city’s ravines and forests.
• More details on Amazon
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