Toronto Carrying-Place Trail

The name comes from the Mohawk term toron-ten, meaning "the place where the trees grow over the water", an important landmark on Lake Simcoe through which the trail passed.

[page needed] Crossing the Moraine it met the eastern branch of the Holland River near Aurora, Ontario.

Traces of a village have been found on the Oakdale Golf & Country Club grounds, adjacent to the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail.

The site is marked with a plaque, and the ruins of a 19th-century mill stood nearby until the year 2000, when it was demolished and replaced by a new hotel, built in the style of the existing adjacent Tea Room.

The trail was widely used by both French and English fur traders until Toronto started to be permanently settled in the early 19th century, bringing to a close over a millennium of use.

The Toronto Carrying-Place Trail was a crucial point for travel, with the Humber and Rouge rivers providing a shortcut to the upper Great Lakes .
Map of the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail along the Humber River .