Below is a map of the different Toronto hoods and the various Toronto gangs throughout the city that shows and breaks down the true urban communities and the streets of Canada’s largest and most diverse city. Toronto Hoods Key: Black = Neighborhood/Unknown | Red = Bloods | …

2013年9月11日 · In his report, Hastings called the slums "a menace to public health" and "an offence against public decency." He railed against unscrupulous landlords who refused to make sanitary improvements...

2017年5月3日 · Thanks to Hastings' and Goss' work, diphtheria infections and typhoid fever rates plummet, Toronto becomes the first Canadian city to require pasteurization of milk and the city sets the standard...

2012年6月30日 · Thornton and Lucie Blackburn - two escaped Kentucky slaves brought to Toronto via the Underground Railroad - were early land owners who helped house others fleeing forced labour in the southern...

2017年6月21日 · Back before it was the bustling city core of today, what we now know as downtown Toronto was a ramshackle neighbourhood that served as the first port of call for oft-penniless newcomers to the city. The area bounded by Queen Street, College Street, Yonge Street and University Avenue was hardly filled with trendy eateries or the big business of ...

The Ward (formally St. John's Ward) was a neighbourhood in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Many new immigrants first settled in the neighbourhood; it was at the time widely considered a slum. [1]

By the late 19th century and the early 20th century, there were at least nineteen large and small areas, streets or neighbourhoods that were declared or labelled slums in Toronto. By the 1960s, almost all the slums had been cleared and were replaced by institutional, governmental and residential modern buildings.

2013年3月3日 · Then known as the city's worst slum, The Ward was densely packed with rough accommodations whose low cost attracted immigrants newly arrived from across Eastern and Southern Europe, and Asia. Visiting over 5 000 homes, the inspectors documented all they saw and smelled, from leaky roofs and peeling wallpaper to overflowing outdoor privies.

2015年5月22日 · Long before St. John’s Ward came to be branded as Toronto’s most notorious slum, the working class enclave bounded by Queen, College, Yonge and University had a distinctive, diverse character.

2017年11月8日 · Better known as the Ward, the dense neighbourhood squished between University, Yonge, College and Queen was a place where cultural divides broke down and people from opposite ends of the world...