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<title>blogTO Recent Comments: Ontario's Forgotten Landmarks: Barber Paper Mill</title>
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<title>Cyndy</title>
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Is this place still standing?  As a photographer, I want to go and explore this awesome looking place.  Does anyone know if it's accessible?  

Thanks!]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/01/ontarios_forgotten_landmarks_barber_paper_mill/#c714734</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:59:17 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Leslie</title>
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This site is not only culturally significant, it has a real imprtance ecologically.  There are many people in the community working to make the site alive - there is even work going on to see if the site can be designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site.  Keep your eyes and ears open.  Hoepfully the plan will come to fruition. ]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/01/ontarios_forgotten_landmarks_barber_paper_mill/#c626713</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:02:04 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>NIka</title>
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the owner of the place is a very friendly and lovely man. he surely has a great passion for the Mill and an interesting idea for a renovation. he is very sad that a lot of kids go there and brake stuff and looter there. but he hopes to start renovations early 2010 and have a lovely restaurant there, fix the mill and make a bridge to the other side to the trails.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/01/ontarios_forgotten_landmarks_barber_paper_mill/#c617507</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:48:33 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Georgetown Teen</title>
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I agree with you  melissa as a teen  living  in Georgetown myself i  actually  had my  first visit  to the mill just the other  day and was amazed  at how beautiful the  structure  was but  like many have said its  saddening to see the  decay and destruction at the hands of  immature teens. I was  able to get some  amazing snap shots  of  natural  lighting  coming  in through  now  mostly bare windows. It would be  a tragic thing to destroy the mill but at the same time with all the vandals  its no more help. While on the  point of people getting  hurt you  do hear of  drunken teens  falling into holes and breaking  legs  but at the stupidity  of themselves there are amny areas  where  the  floor is completely safe! the  only thing structure wise i would worry about si  asbestos?]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/01/ontarios_forgotten_landmarks_barber_paper_mill/#c605155</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:27:08 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>melissa</title>
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i live in georgetown and that place has been run down my whole life..so ive never seen it as a historical site just a hunk o junk..so this really opened my eyes..and yes i agree it's all historic and what not but to the teens and kids of this town it is nothing more than the perfect drinking spot or blazing spot..it has become a party house which is really not safe enough to be in but it just sits so ppl use it..the town should worry about someone getting hurt there one night or how much worse it's going to get destroyed if it continues to be a sitting duck..it cant be old and busted forever

time to move on]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/01/ontarios_forgotten_landmarks_barber_paper_mill/#c586821</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 03:57:12 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Brian</title>
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Im2techy's comment misses a rather important point. While local authorities actually liked the proposed development(such high-density developments generate large property tax revenues), Credit Valley Conservation virtually vetoed it on the grounds that such a large development at the bottom of a river valley was environmentally unsound (the law now precludes development below the top of river valley banks). The economics of this site are such that the front-end costs of clean-up, plus the environmental restrictions on development that close to the river, will make private development uneconomical. Some good things will eventually happen on this site, but not a massive high-rise development that requires digging a 5-floor parking garage under the water table of an environmentally sensitive riverbed. 
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/01/ontarios_forgotten_landmarks_barber_paper_mill/#c383152</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:31:39 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Jonathan</title>
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The owner seems to still hold out hope; at least the beams etc. he had placed will keep the taller structure standing, but who knows for how long-

Jonathan.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/01/ontarios_forgotten_landmarks_barber_paper_mill/#c382155</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:02:48 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Im2techy</title>
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Unfortunately, decay instead of revitalization is the sites most likely future. Unable to secure the support of local council and government bodies for their restoration plans, the owner/developer has abandoned their plans. At the same time, Halton Hills council has no workable plan or money of their own. By constantly delaying and opposing the developer, they have squandered the site best chance at revitalization. Instead, it is likely that the site & and an important historical landmark will be lost.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/01/ontarios_forgotten_landmarks_barber_paper_mill/#c381979</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:29:52 PST</pubDate>
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<title>apetimberlake</title>
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Great work.
My parents live in Georgetown and i always was facinated by this site when i would drive past it.

I heard that the current owners have some connection to the distillery district revitalization.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/01/ontarios_forgotten_landmarks_barber_paper_mill/#c377519</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:17:36 PST</pubDate>
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