These video clips were taken during my walking tour with famous Toronto historian and tour guide Bruce Bell on July 16, 2007. After meeting at the famous and eclectic OCAD Building (I call it the “gift box on stilts”) just south of the University of Toronto, Bruce took us past the Grange, Toronto’s oldest building, past the Art Gallery of Toronto to some of the mansions along Beverley and Baldwin Streets. Along the way Bruce explained to us the early history of Toronto, and the family compact — a group of extremely wealthy and powerful English families that used to rule Toronto in the early days. We then walked westwards to Chinatown and the ethnic mix of the Kensington Market area which started as a Scottish market, then became a popular Jewish residential area in the 1910s and 1920s (evidenced by two local synagogues) and morphed into the diverse, multicultural and hip neighbourhood that it is today. Vendors sell fruits, vegetables, cheeses, dry goods, meat, fish, vintage clothing and all sorts of other unique items in this Bohemian neighbourhood. A great variety of different ethnic restaurants caters to eclectic tastes. We then visited Denison Square and admired a statue of one of Toronto’s popular actors, Al Waxman, the “King of Kensington”. We then continued on our walk through busy Chinatown to Toronto’s Garment district along Spadina and Queen Avenues and then headed east along a variety of restaurants and bars on Queen Street West to end in front of the …
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Nice, but area with highest upward appreciation potential in the city, is the Port Union area of Toronto. With an average annual income over in excess of 140,000 and a university attainment level of over 35%; the area’s dynamics and demographics are not reflected in the affordable prices of the homes. Least not YET.
rent in those mansions in dirt cheap, their run by toronto community housing now.
Some of the poshest homes in some of the toniest neighbourhoods in toronto. Some of the poshest neighbourhoods include Lambton/Kingsway, the BridlePath, Rosedale, Forest Hill, Leaside, and Port Union in Scarborough. All have family income in excess of $140,000 and university attainment above 30%.
Soon I will be moving to Toronto so I hope to check out these amongst others.
300,000 for a teeny one bedroom apartment in the last building, ironic, came across this after viewing it yesterday
The funny thing is that the first four mansions in this video are public housing (projects). And then the last one is an apartment building.
Man, Thats cool.