- Allan Gardens
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
More than 150 years since it first opened to the public Allan Gardens is still a city park open to the public. Due to its central location and large size Allan Gardens Park has long been a chosen site for protests and demonstration in Toronto.
- Bain Avenue controversy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
Rent freeze organizers state their case.
- Bain Avenue controversy - Ulli Diemer replies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
There is no dispute about the importance and validity of economic demands, whether in the workplace or in the community. What is under dispute is Wages for Housework's insistence that money is the only thing around which it is permissible to organize.
- Bain Co-op
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Built as a low-income housing project in 1913, Bain became a co-operative in 1977.
- Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
A political thriller
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect.
- Cabbagetown
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Depicts life in the Toronto neighbourhood of Cabbagetown during the Depression.
- Cabbagetown
The Story Of A Victorian Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Coopersmith traces Cabbagetown's origins in the eighteenth century, growth in the Victorian era, decline in the thirties, and renaissance today. Also included are two walking tours that highlight historic and contemporary buildings and sites.
- Cabbagetown: A Working Class District
Hugh Garner's novel revisited
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
- Cabbagetown Cultural Festival poster
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
Published: 1979
A satire.
- Cabbagetown Diary
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
A novel.
- Cabbagetown in Pictures
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
Photos of Toronto's historic Cabbagetown, with accompanying text.
- Cabbagetown museum gets new premises: leaves Farm in May
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The Cabbagetown Regent Park Community Museum has a new home. Thanks to the generosity of a group of anonymous benefactors, the museum has acquired ownership of the property at 296 Gerrard St E.
- Cabbagetown People
Resource Type: Website
Cabbagetown People salutes not only famous persons, historical figures, or people who have distinguished themselves in their occupations or careers. It also honours the average person who has contributed to his or her community and has left a lasting legacy, either in a tangible way or in leading by example, inspiring those who follow.
- Cabbagetown, Remembered
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
Stories and photographs of the Toronto neighbourhood known as old Cabbagetown.
- Cabbagetown-Riverdale News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1985
Cabbagetown-Riverdale News was a sucessor to Seven News, the non-profit community newspaper published in Toronto from 1970 to 1985 in what was then known as Ward 7. The September 17, 1985 issue was the first published under the name Cabbagetown-Riverdale News.
- The Canada Metals story: A chronology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
The ongoing struggle against lead pollution in South Riverdale.
- Cherry Beach
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Cherry Beach, originally called Clarke Beach Park, was established as a recreational beach in the 1930s. Established close to the mouth of the Don River, Cherry Beach was very close to what was then a heavily industrial area.
- A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Class Bias in Toronto Schools
Downtown Kids Aren't Dumb: They Need A Better Program
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
A brief by the Park School community council addressing the streaming of poor and working class children into the bottom levels of the school system. These children, the brief says, have badly developed basic skills, particularly in reading and writing. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall/Winter 1971.
- Corktown
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Corktown is a residential neighbourhood in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is just south of Regent Park and north of the Gardiner Expressway, between Berkeley Street to the west and the Don River to the east, Shuter Street to Lake Shore Boulevard East.
- Don Jail
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The Don Jail is a former jail in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located to the east of the Don River, on Gerrard Street East in Riverdale. The "Don Gaol" was built between 1858 and 1864, with a new wing being built in the 1950s. The jail originally had a capacity of 184 inmates and was separated into an east wing for the men and west wing for the women.
- Don Mount (Napier Place)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Located just east of the Don River in Riverdale, the area bordered by Queen, Broadview and Dundas Street as well as the Don Valley Parkway.
- Don Vale ("Old Cabbagetown")
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Don Vale, or "Old Cabbagetown" as it now usually called, is a small neighbourhood on the west bank of the Don Valley. Roughly bordered by Parliament and Gerrard Streets as well as St. James Cemetery, the Toronto Necropolis Cemetery, and Riverdale Park.
- Don Weitz in conversation with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Activist Don Weitz interviewed by Ulli Diemer, December 8, 2016.
- Exploring Toronto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Expressway would destroy 71 homes in Riverdale
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
Proposed expressway would result in pollution, noise, destruction of homes and businesses.
- Fighting Back
Urban Renewal in Trefann Court
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A detailed report on the conflict between city bureaucrats and residents of Trefann Court, a five-block area just east of downtown Toronto. Bent on tearing down as a step towards urban renewal, the planners and government officials met organized resistance by homeowners, landlords and tenants for over six years.
- Free Bleecker
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 1974
A documentary on the "redevelopment" of the South St. Jamestown neighbourhood in Toronto.
- Gooderham and Worts
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Gooderham and Worts was a Canadian company that was once the largest distiller of alcoholic beverages in Canada. Its former manufacturing facilities on the Toronto Waterfront are today the well-known Distillery District.
- Hospital should back local clinic
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Plans for community health centre threatened by St. Michael's hospital.
- How We Changed Toronto
The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.
- Inside City Hall, The Years of Opposition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- The Intruders
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
A novel depicting the gentrification of the Cabbagetown neighbourhood in Toronto.
- Karl Jaffary
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Karl Jaffary is a former municipal politician in Toronto.
- Les cimetières historiques de Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
- Moss Park
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Moss Park is a residential neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The area known as Moss Park is typically considered to be between Jarvis Street and Parliament Street south of Dundas, an area dominated by public housing projects.
- Old Toronto Houses
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Photographs of old Toronto houses, with accompanying text.
- Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
- The Real World of City Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A report about what is going on -- and what is going wrong -- in Canada's cities. Urban reneewal, public housing, downtown schools, citizen participation, highrise development, city politicians.
- Regent Park
The Public Experiment in Housing
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Photographs, commentary, and interviews.
- Regent Park
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Regent Park is a neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, built in the late 1940s as a public housing project.
- Regent Park
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
One of the oldest public housing projects in Canada. Approved in the mid-1940s and finally completed by 1960, Regent Park consisted of high- and low-rise, subsidized apartment buildings in the area of Toronto bordered by Gerrard, River, Shuter and Parliament Streets. The area is now being rebuilt with mixed-income housing.
- Riverdale
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Consisting of a the area east of the Don Valley and bordered by the Danforth, Greenwood Avenue and Lake Ontario, Riverdale was annexed into Toronto in 1884.
- Riverdale Community Organization
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
The RCO emerged out of discontent at the city,’s handling of the housing expropriation in the Don Mount renewal zone. In 1969, several religious figures from the area formed the East Don Urban Coalition to represent local interests and hired organizer Don Keating. After six months several smaller organizations that had formed around specific local issues united to form the Riverdale Community Organization.
- The Riverdale Zoo
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
A history of the Riverdale Zoo from its founding it the 1890s to its closing in 1974.
- Riverdale Zoo/Riverdale Farm
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
A zoo which existed on the west bank of the Don River, at the east end of Winchester Street, from 1899 to 1975. the site subsequently became the location of Riverdale Farm.
- St. James Cemetery (Toronto)
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The Anglican St. James Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Toronto still in operation, being opened in 1844 as the burial ground for St. James Cathedral. The cemetery was opened in July 1844 for the burial of people professing the Anglican faith.
- St. James Town
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
St. James Town (sometimes spelled St. Jamestown) is a neighbourhood of Toronto which lies in the northeast corner of the downtown area. The neighbourhood covers the area bounded by Sherbourne Street to the west, Bloor Street East to the north, Parliament Street to the east, and Wellesley Street East to the south.
- St. James Town
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Bounded by Wellesley, Howard, Sherbourne and Parliament Streets. Originally comprised of houses, the area was demolished in the 1960s and filled with highrise apartment buildings.
- St. Lawrence neighbourhood
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
St. Lawrence is a neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The area, a former industrial area, is bounded by Yonge, Front, and Parliament Streets, and the Canadian National railway embankment.
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- Seven News: Principles & Purposes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
Statement of principles of Seven News, a community newspaper.
- Seven News: The Story of a Community Newspaper
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
An essay about the Toronto community newspaper Seven News, written in 1984 by Lisa Horrocks, who was part of Seven News as a staff or board member for a number of years.
- Seven News (7 News) - Volume 8 Number 15
December 17, 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7. Seven News was published bi-weekly by the Ward Seven Newspaper Organization from 1970 to 1985. During this time, Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, and St. Jamestown.
- Sewell, John
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Political activist and writer on municipal affairs. The mayor of Toronto, Canada from 1978 to 1980. (Born 1940).
- South of Carlton Community Action Committee (SOCCA)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
The South of Carlton Community Action Committee was formed by a group of residents in the South of Carlton neighbourhood in 1970.
- South of St. James Town
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
The area just to the South of the St. James Town apartments, roughly bordered by Wellesley, Sherbourne, Carlton and Parliament Streets.
- To be Gay in Ward Seven
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
To be gay in Ward Seven is, for most homosexuals, to play a role, to pretend to be straight, to hide their sexual orientation. Why, you might ask, would homosexuals want others to know they are gay? Why? Because we ask to have the same human and civil rights as other citizens. You might also ask how these rights are denied to us.
- Toronto Community Union Project (T-CUP) in Trefann Court
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2021
The Toronto Community Union Project (T-CUP) was a small group of community organizers who came together in 1966 to help working-class residents facing "urban redevelopment" in a neighbourhood called Trefann Court.
- Toronto Necropolis Cemetery
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
A historic cemetery, located between Sumach Street and the Don River, opened in 1850, and the final resting place of people who were originally buried in Potter's Field.
- Toronto Police Constable shot and killed in Cabbagetown - 1973
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In January 10 1973. 28 year-old Toronto Police Constable James Lothian spotted a speeding vehicle running a red light and pursued it until the car ran into the rear of another vehicle on Amelia Street near Rawlings Avenue. After leaving his cruiser, Constable Lothian was shot and wounded by one of the occupants of the vehicle, David Brian (Duke) Holmes. Lothian later died in hospital.
- Toronto's Historic Cemeteries
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
A overview of Toronto's early cemeteries.
- Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2916
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
- Trefann Court
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Trefann Court is a small neighbourhood in the eastern part of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the north side of Queen Street between Parliament Street and River Street. It extends north only a short distance to Shuter St. In the nineteenth century Trefann Court was considered a part of the Cabbagetown neighbourhood.
- Trefann Court
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
A thin strip of land just south of Regent Park and bounded by Queen, Parliament, Shuter, and River Streets, Trefann Court was slated for “urban renewal” by the City of Toronto in 1966. Residents fought back and eventually managed to stop the redevelopment plan.
- Trefann Court Residents Associations
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
A thin strip of land just south of Regent Park and bounded by Queen, Parliament, Shuter, River Streets, Trefann Court was slated for 'urban renewal' by the city in 1966. Home to 1,300, mostly working class, residents, the area was characterized by old houses and a dwindling population. Faced with the demolition of their neighbourhood and inspired by earlier resistance by residents in the Don Mount on the other side of the Don River, residents organized against the project and refused to accept the city's plans.
- The Trouble With Co-ops
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
The story of a pioneer co-operative housing project in downtown Toronto: Down Area Co-operative Homes, inc. (DACHI).
- The Universe Ends at Sherbourne & Queen
Poems & Prose
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A literary and photographic look at the area known as Cabbagetown. It describes the myths and legends of the area as well as the lives of the people who live there.
- Up Against City Hall
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
John Sewell describes his early life and explains how he accidentally got involved in politics. He tells of his experiences in Trefann Court, and how this opened his eyes to the realities of civic politics, and gives behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the major battles at City Hall.
- Ward 7 NDP campaigns
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
After having avoided the civic arena since the 1969 municipal election, the Metro Toronto NDP is throwing itself into local politics in the 1978 municipal election.
- Winchester Streetcar & Bus route
Resource Type: Article
An account of the streetcar (later bus) route which terminated at the end of Winchester Street at Sumach btween 1881 and 1930.
- Working People
Life in a Downtown City Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
A description of the Don Vale neighbourhood of downtown Toronto in the 1960s.
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