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- 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, Toronto
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The area today known as Cabbagetown was first known as the village of Don Vale, just outside of what was then Toronto.
- 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 Weitz in conversation with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Activist Don Weitz interviewed by Ulli Diemer, December 8, 2016.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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