A brief history of Kensington Avenue in Toronto Toronto TorontoHistory
century, the residents of Kensington Market were largely from the British Isles and Christian. Vanauley Street was renamed Kensington Avenue in 1888/1889.
Within the first two decades of the twentieth century, the British began moving out of the area. During this era, many Jewish families and residents — largely from Central and Eastern Europe — began moving westward from St. John's Ward into Kensington Market.On the evening of 14 July 1913, a riot erupted at the intersection of Kensington Avenue and Dundas Street West after Rev.
It was during the early twentieth century that modifications occurred to many of the Kensington Avenue buildings — including the creation of commercial spaces within the buildings, the construction of new storefronts, and the subdivision of some single-family dwellings into apartments or boarding houses.
The residential-to-commercial alterations to many of the Kensington Avenue houses and the emergence of the sidewalk market represented the third wave of development of Kensington Avenue.newspaper was referring to the sidewalk market as"The Kensington Market" in addition to calling it the"Jewish Market.
In 1951, municipal planners attempted to mitigate the traffic issues by instating numerous one-way streets in Kensington Market — including Kensington Avenue.noted"the monumental traffic jams of past years are still as monumental as ever in spite of one-way streets" and encouraged"the wise shopper [to] leave [their] car on Spadina or College and walk in."
This early bakery was an important meeting place for the Jewish women of Kensington Market who would meet and use the large ovens to keep their cholent warm overnight for Sabbath. Other postwar developments include the construction of small-scale commercial and office buildings — including several small malls — on the west side of Kensington Avenue north of St. Andrew Street during the 1960s-1990s.By the 1950s and 1960s, new diasporic groups began to arrive in Kensington Market. These included Portuguese , Italian, Afro-Caribbean, Latin American, East Asian, and East Indian communities.
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