Todmorden Mills

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted March, 2004

In the Don River valley, on the south side of Pottery Road west of Broadview Avenue is an Archaeological and Historic Sites Board plaque describing this Toronto heritage site. The plaque reads:

Plaque coordinates: 43.686 -79.359867

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
Upper Canada

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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.
Thanks donnancymarks@rogers.com

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