After decades of illness, including a cholera scare and bouts of malaria, Toronto’s Don River succumbed to mounting neglect and was pronounced dead in 1969. A funeral procession of environmental activists wound through the city, with mourners gathering at the polluted banks of the river to pay their final respects.
After more than half a century, however, the river has roared back to life. Wildlife is gingerly returning to areas that were once the site of