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College Street is a principal arterial thoroughfare in downtown Toronto, Canada, connecting former streetcar suburbs in the west with the city centre. The street is home to an ethnically diverse population in the western residential reaches, and institutions like the Ontario Legislature and the University of Toronto in the downtown core .
It moved to its current location at 431 College Street in 1990 and became a major venue for Canadian punk rock, hosting Armed and Hammered and other bands. [2] In the early 1990s, Sneaky Dee's was a popular destination for anti-fascist and Anti-Racist Action (ARA) activists, and was the scene of a 1993 brawl between activists and the neo-Nazi Heritage Front after the vandalizing of a white ...
College Park from the northeast corner of College and Yonge Street, 2022. College Park is a shopping mall, residential and office complex on the southwest corner of Yonge and College streets in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. An Art Deco landmark, the building was initially known as Eaton's College Street. It was operated by Eaton's from 1930 to 1977.
The Royal Cinema is a theatre that was opened in 1939.. College Street was fully laid out in the area by 1900 and the area was filled with buildings from the early 1900s. College Street is fronted by two- and three-storey buildings, with commercial uses on the ground floor and residential or storage uses on the upper flo
Historical Walking Tour of Kensington Market & College Street. Toronto Public Library Board. ISBN 0-920601-20-0; Robertson, John Ross, 1904. Landmarks of Toronto, Volume 4, pp 451–454. College Street Baptist Church. Storey, E.K., Brown, J.K. 1982. Palmerston Boulevard: an evaluation of a unique residential street. Brown+Storey Architects.
The Grand Foyer at the Eaton's Seventh Floor in 1931. The floor was designed by French architect Jacques Carlu.. In 1930, the Eaton's department store chain, at the time Canada's dominant retailer, opened "Eaton's College Street", an imposing Art moderne store at the intersection of Yonge Street and College Street.
The No. 8 Hose Station is a small fire hall that is a Toronto landmark. It is located on College Street at Bellevue and marks the northern end of Kensington Market and serves the Chinatown area at Spadina and Dundas.
University Avenue was originally made up of two streets, College Avenue and University Street, and separated by a fence, but it was eventually removed and the streets were merged. [1] The merged street ended at Queen Street until 1931, when it was extended southward to Front Street. [2] After World War Two the avenue was transformed.