In 1793, Lt.-Gov. John Graves Simcoe introduced a policy of assisting the building of water-driven grist and saw mills at the mouths of navigable rivers in the territory of Upper Canada.
This is a story of the entrepreneurial families - the Coopers, Scarletts, Wadsworths, Fishers, Gambles, Murchisons and many others who settled in the lower Humber Valley. They built their establishments on this swiftly-flowing river, now part of Metropolitan Toronto, in fulfilment of Simcoe's policy.
- Author: Sidney Thomson Fisher
- Paperback: 188 pages
- Dimensions: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
- Publisher: New Canada Publications