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Todmorden Mills

Photo by Wayne Adam - Posted October, 2016

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted March, 2004

Photo Source - Wikimedia Commons

In the Don River valley, on the south side of Pottery Road, west of Broadview Avenue is this Ontario Heritage Trust plaque describing this Toronto heritage site. Here's what it says:

Coordinates: 43.686 -79.359867

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In 1794-5 Isaiah and Aaron Skinner built a sawmill and grist-mill near this site. A third share in the mill property was held, 1799-1805, by their brother-in-law, Parshall Terry, a member of the first Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, who had moved to this area by 1798. Terry lived nearby until his death in 1808. Later the mills were jointly owned by Colin Skinner and John Eastwood. By 1823 Thomas Helliwell had built a brewery and a distillery in the immediate vicinity and within four years Eastwood and Skinner had constructed the second paper mill in Upper Canada. A village called "Todmorden" after the English home of the Helliwells grew up to the northeast of the mills.

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Todmorden Mills
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Early Don Mills
Early Mill Site
Gray Mill and Donalda Cattle Barn
Highland Creek Mills
The King's Mill
The Lost Village of Milton Mills
The Old Mill
Silverthorn Family and Mill Farm
This Millstone
York Mills

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First Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada

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Here are the visitors' comments for this page.

> Posted August 27, 2012
Does anyone have info on the Elliott's who lived here in the early 60's? I went to school with Heidi and they were a most interesting family.

> Posted July 15, 2011
Any history POW on Don Valley 1940-1945,next south on Todmorden Mills. My family were on 69 Ozark Cres Toronto on the two war 1939 we can see the POWs on the Don Valley Todmorden Mills.
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