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In 1907, the Don Valley Brick Works employed 200 workers who produced 25 million bricks that year. In 1912, they produced 43 million bricks for a rapidly growing city, and by the 1970s, production was up to 60 million bricks per year - enough to build 4,300 average sized homes.

Evergreen, a Canadian non-profit organization manages the Don Valley Brick Works site since 1991. They have transformed the abandoned buildings into a cultural centre with a focus on the environment. Having leased the "industrial pad" portion of the site from the Toronto Region and Conservation Authority, Evergreen has renovated several of the existing structures and constructed one new building known as the Centre for Green Cities. The goal of the scheme is adaptive reuse, where most of the buildings will be reinforced where needed and repurposed to house the new programming planned for the site. In this way, the site can be recycled as much as possible and the historical integrity of the Don Valley Brickworks can be maintained.

In 2009, National Geographic Traveler named Evergreen Brick Works one of the 10 finalists in its Geotourism Challenge 2009, "a global competition of tourism-related projects that promote natural and cultural heritage while improving the well-being of the local people". The 10 finalists were chosen from 610 entries from 81 countries.
Date Taken on 14 July 2014, 10:41
Source ONTARIO-00334 - Brickworks
Author Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada
Camera location43° 41′ 11.38″ N, 79° 21′ 58.86″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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