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It is contained within the larger city-recognized neighbourhood of Corso Italia-Davenport. The neighbourhood includes numerous cafés, clothing shops, shoe stores, restaurants, food markets, as well as several gelaterias and bakeries. The community is considered Toronto's second Italian ethnic enclave after Little Italy on College Street.
[1] [5] They mainly immigrated to Toronto—increasing from 4,900 Italians in 1911, to 9,000 in 1921, constituting almost two percent of Toronto's population. [5] A tourist attraction of the area is the Italian Walk of Fame. Granite and brass stars line the sidewalk with the names of noteworthy Italian Canadians.
Nienkämper is a furniture manufacturer founded by Klaus Nienkämper in 1968. The North American company operates a 120,000-square-foot factory in Toronto's east end that produces furniture for office, residential, institutional and hospitality applications with showrooms in Toronto, New York, Chicago and Dallas.
View of Palmerston Boulevard south of Harbord Street, c. 1909.The homes in the area were largely from the Victorian-era. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Ontario provincial and Metropolitan Toronto governments proposed running a six-lane north–south expressway to the east of Grace Street.
An outstanding example of picturesque design inspired by the 19th-century tradition of rural cemeteries in a naturalistic setting; many of the grave markers are representative of significant epochs in the history of Toronto and the rest of the country Old Toronto City Hall and York County Court House [50] [51] 1899 (completed) 1984 Toronto
Old Town is a neighbourhood and retail district in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was the first of Toronto's named neighbourhoods , having acquired the moniker no later than 1815, at which time the original town of York was expanding.
Old City of Toronto N 79 University: Old City of Toronto N 43 Victoria Village: North York Y 164 Wellington Place: Old City of Toronto N 165 Harbourfront–CityPlace: Old City of Toronto N 166 St Lawrence-East Bayfront The Islands: Old City of Toronto Distillery District, Old Town, St. Lawrence: N 136 West Hill: Scarborough Y 1 West Humber ...
Much of the Italian population subsequently moved to the northwestern part of Metropolitan Toronto, and by 2001 the North York neighbourhoods of Maple Leaf, [9] Pelmo Park-Humberlea, [10] and Humber Summit [11] had the highest concentrations of Italian Canadians in the city, with 41.6 per cent, 40.4 per cent and 39.5 per cent respectively, but ...