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[personal profile] chickenfeet
Cabbagetown was once the quintessential working class neighbourhood of Toronto. It was the first home for generations of new immigrants starting with the Irish, then Eastern Europeans and, more recently, South Asian and East African families. Old Cabbagetown had its slums and was notorious in the mid 19th century for cholera outbreaks. Post WW2, a fair amount of not especially nice public housing was built (Regent's Park) and the neighbourhood became one of the sketchier parts of the city. More recently there has been a massive amount of gentrification, especially on the quiet side streets and houses sell for, by Toronto standards, very high prices. Most recently parts of Regent's Park have been demolished and are being replaced by pretty boring condos. It looks as though no attempt is going to be made to create the kind of fairly integrated mixed income community that makes the St. Lawrence neighbourhood so great.



Typical of the gentrified side streets; looking east along Wellesley from Parliament.


wellesley, originally uploaded by [email protected].



Not so gentrified; looking south down Parliament from Wellesley


parliament, originally uploaded by [email protected].



Evidence of Indian influence


video, originally uploaded by [email protected].



Indian influence of a different sort


tcnc, originally uploaded by [email protected].



Some of the remaining public housing at Regent's Park


regents, originally uploaded by [email protected].



And finally, a few metres south, what's replacing the demolished public housing blocks


condo3, originally uploaded by [email protected].




condo2, originally uploaded by [email protected].

Date: 2008-04-20 08:19 pm (UTC)
gillo: (Default)
From: [personal profile] gillo
Interesting that South Indian languages are featured so heavily on the video board - round here Punjabi and Gujrati are the commonest languages.

Interesting photos - thanks for sharing.

Date: 2008-04-20 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
I think we have the largest Tamil community outside Sri Lanka. For whatever reason, North Indians (and we have lots of Sikhs and Punjabis) tend to settle in the suburbs. One of my colleagues on the current gg is actually from near Shimla in Himal Pradesh but she lives out in darkest Mississauga.

Date: 2008-04-20 11:42 pm (UTC)
sabotabby: raccoon anarchy symbol (Default)
From: [personal profile] sabotabby
That's one of the areas I'm thinking of moving to.

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