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  1. Bill Davis to Open Regent Health Centre
    Official Opening DEC.18 [1973]

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1973
    After 4½ years of organizing, planning and numerous meetings with health professionals and governmental officials, Regent Park tenants have finally succeeded in getting their own community health centre.
  2. Government's house and housing the governed
    Parliament Street: Regent Park, Cabbagetown (old and "Old") and St James Town

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    A recent history of the neighborhoods around Parliament Street in Toronto, with a focus on the planning challenges and the function of mixed-income communities.
  3. Regent Festival to Combat Racism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Six church and religious organizations in and around Regent Park have banded together to promote and sponsor a four-day, multicultural, "Festival of Praise" to combat the racial unrest in that area.
  4. 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.
  5. Regent Park Community Improvement Association
    Connexipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    The Regent Park Community Improvement Association (RPCIA) was founded in 1969 at a meeting organized by a previous organization, BLAST, which consisted of Regent Park South Residents.
  6. Regent Park Community News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    A newsletter/newspaper published in the Regent Park area of Toronto in the 1970s.
  7. Regent Park Revitalization Plan
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    The Regent Park Revitalization Plan is an initiative that began in 2005 by the City of Toronto with fellow development, government and community partners, with the focus of rebuilding the neighbourhood of Regent Park for 12,500 residents over 15-20 years.
  8. Regent Park Sets up Youth Employment Service
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    An employment referral service for unemployed teenagers is being set up in the Regent Park area, where the lack of jobs for young people is being felt very severely.
  9. Regent Park story not so simple
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Individuals and families already marginalized by poverty, poor health and barriers to accessing services, are being further marginalized by displacement.
  10. Report cites reasons for racial unrest in Regent Park
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    The long awaited Board of Education report on racial unrest in Regent Park was made public last week. It cites a number of reasons for unrest in Regent Park and makes a wide variety of both specific, immediate and long-range recommendations to solve the problems.
  11. 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.
  12. 7 News should take own articles seriously
    Letter to the Editor

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    Ulli Diemer wrote an excellent commentary on poverty. The only trouble is that he doesn't seem to take his own ideas seriously.
  13. The Shape of the City
    Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    John Sewell traces in urban planning from pre-Depression garden cities to postwar modernism and a revival of interest in the streetscape grid.
  14. Workshop airs youth problems
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    Representatives of various social agencies, as well as some residents of Regent Park, come together to discuss youth and agency problems in Regent Park.


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