In 1969, the future organizers of Pollution Probe – now one of Canada’s longest-running environmental justice groups – held a funeral performance for the “deceased” Don River. This shallow, meandering river had been colonized, dredged, straightened, industrialized, and eventually left to stagnate at the core of the city. This celebrated funeral was both a performance and a protest, a gesture of resistance and a refusal to accept a world so full of harm, and a launching point for later work to “reclaim the Don.