Salmon in the Don

The salmon were plentiful in the Don. Dr. Scadding saw as many as twenty heavy salmon speared within an hour. (Sauriol, Remembering the Don, p. 36)

Thirty pound Salmon were taken then from the Don. (Remembering the Don, p. 69)

The first settlers in Ontario believed that the salmon which spawned in the rivers flowing into Lake Ontario came all the way from the Atlantic Ocean. (Sauriol, Remembering the Don, 1981, p. 93)

And so, the salmon and the Passenger pigeon at one time abundant along the Don have gone their way never to return.  Many may yet learn the lessons of the past; life is not inexhaustible, once extinguished in one particular species he is powerless to restore it. (Sauriol, Remembering the Don, p. 95)

There used to be salmon in the Don. (Sauriol, Remembering the Don, p. 136)

Of time and the river The Don: salmon to sludge to concrete; in time, to life revived. (Queen Street: Thematic Preview)

Read more about salmon and Atlantic salmon on Wikipedia.

Read more about salmon in Lake Ontario at "Restoring Lake Ontario's lost treasure" from Bring Back The Salmon, Lake Ontario and Restoration of Atlantic Salmon to Lake Ontario: Past, Present and Future from Fish Ontario.