Cabbagetown comprises of “the largest continuous area of preserved Victorian housing in all of North America”, according to the Cabbagetown Preservation Association. Cabbagetown’s name derives from the Irish immigrants who moved to the neighbourhood beginning in the late 1840s, said to have been so poor that they grew cabbage in their front yards. The neighbourhood...
Parkdale is one of the most diverse areas of the city, with many new immigrants finding their first homes here because of the high concentration of low-rent apartment complexes and proximity to the downtown core. The presence of a large immigrant community has done much to create the vibrancy and personality that Parkdale is known...
Kensington Market is a distinctive multicultural neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto. The Market is an older neighbourhood and one of the city’s most well-known. In November 2006, it was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. Robert Fulford wrote in 1999 that “Kensington today is as much a legend as a district. The (partly) outdoor market...
Palmerston–Little Italy is a neighbourhood in central Toronto. Its boundaries, according to the City of Toronto, are by Bathurst Street to the east, Bloor Street to the north, Dovercourt Road to the west and College Street to the south. It is a mature downtown neighbourhood. Within this neighbourhood are two neighbourhoods, Palmerston and Little Italy...
Niagara is a neighbourhood in Toronto, located along and south of Queen Street West; it is usually bordered by Atlantic Avenue to the west, Bathurst Street to the east, and the railway corridor to the south, and so named because Niagara Street runs through the centre of it. The eastern portion of this area (with...
The Annex is a neighbourhood in downtown Toronto. The traditional boundaries of the neighbourhood are north to Dupont Street, south to Bloor Street, west to Bathurst Street and east to Avenue Road. The City of Toronto recognizes a broader neighbourhood definition that includes the adjacent Seaton Village and Yorkville areas. Bordering the University of Toronto,...
The neighbourhood is predominantly residential, with a commercial strip the full length of Roncesvalles, composed predominately of small businesses, churches and institutions. To the west of Roncesvalles, the area is nearly completely residential except for St. Joseph’s Health Centre and a Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) streetcar barn. East of Roncesvalles along the CN and CP...
Little Portugal is a neighbourhood and ethnic enclave in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located west of downtown in the “Old” City of Toronto. It is bounded on the west by Lansdowne Avenue, on the north by College Street, on the east by Ossington Avenue and on the south by the CNR/CPR mainline railway tracks....
The neighbourhood takes its name from Trinity Bellwoods Park, built around the former Garrison Creek ravine. Bounded on the north by Dundas Street West and on the south by the Queen Street West district, the park is immediately accessible from major pedestrian and bicycling thoroughfares. And it is bounded on the east and west by...
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A pet peeve of mine is floorplan design in many of the new condominiums, in particular the cubicle-like bedrooms. A very typical scenario is an 8 x 9 ft. bedroom with no windows and two floor-to-ceiling plastic sliding doors that form one corner of the room. I understand how this may be a functional solution to...
The more lofts I see, the less impressed I am with the Noble Lofts located at 24 Noble Street in Parkdale. But I am not unimpressed necessarily for the reasons you may think. What leaves me unimpressed isn’t the drab interior or lack of exterior character. It isn’t the ongoing renovations, the old windows or...
