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the once-famed restaurants on Dundas Street West, especially the barbecue shops located below grade, have closed since 2000. Competition from commercial developments in suburban Chinese communities also drew wealth and professional immigrants away from downtown. Unlike those newer developments in the suburbs, Chinatown's economy relies heavily on tourism and Chinese seniors. As many younger, higher-income immigrants settled elsewhere in the city, those left in the district are typically from older generations who depend on downtown's dense concentration of services and accessibility to public transportation. With developers changing or resulting in the closure of well-regarded businesses, the Chinatown neighbourhood is facing the pressures of gentrification along with many other Toronto ethnic neighbourhoods and communities such as
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Since the 2000s, the West Chinatown has been changing from the influx of new residents, businesses from immigrants and second generation Canadians. The neighbourhood has continued to serve as a vital market hub and services, to people from inside the neighbourhood and outside. The central location of
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Since the 1990s, downtown Chinatown has been redefining itself in the face of changing demographics and gentrification of the neighbourhood. As the aging population shrank, revenues of businesses in the neighbourhood also decreased. While the majority of the grocery stores and shops remain, most of
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Today, the economic and social centre of Toronto's downtown Chinatown primarily runs north–south along Spadina Avenue to College Street to Sullivan Street and east–west along Dundas Street West from Augusta Avenue to Beverley Street. A mansion that is converted to the Italian Consulate is at the
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organization funded by the commercial property owners of the downtown Chinatown area, it was founded in 2007 and works closely with representatives of the federal, provincial, and city government, the police, as well as community stakeholders to promote and enhance the community as a commercial
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further increased the Chinese population, which led to the creation of additional Chinese communities east of Toronto. The neighbourhood has been noted as being a "near complete community" with housing, employment, and commerce, along with schools and social services all located within walking
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at Bay Street and Dundas Street West, from the 1950s to 1960s to make way for Toronto City Hall. While a handful of Chinese businesses still thrive there, much of the Chinese community have largely migrated west from there to the present Chinatown neighbourhood, thus its name, "West Chinatown".
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and extends outward from this point along both streets. With the population changes of recent decades, it has come to reflect a diverse set of East Asian cultures through its shops and restaurants, including
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Chinatown continued to expand with the influx of Chinese immigrants during the 1960s, many of the wives and descendants of the Chinese men already in Canada due to the lifting of Canada's racial
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that developed during the latter half of the 20th century. This Chinatown is sometimes referred to as West Chinatown to differentiate from both the first Chinatown located more centrally and
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was filmed in Chinatown at Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street West for many episodes of its 1993–97 run. Filmed in Toronto, it portrays the Chinatown of an unidentified major U.S. city.
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in Toronto, the city has a number of other neighbourhoods that have a high concentration of Chinese businesses, and people. Other Chinese ethnic enclaves in Toronto, and the
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Toronto's present-day downtown Chinatown was formerly a Jewish district, although a small Chinese community was already present in this location prior to the 1950s.
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A number of streets in Downtown Chinatown are bilingual, a feature first introduced in the 1970s. The majority of these name are phonetic transliterations through
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A key representative of the neighbourhood and its interests is the Toronto Chinatown Business Improvement Area (多倫多華埠商業改進區), also known as the Chinatown BIA. A
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have greatly exceeded those from Hong Kong. However, at present Cantonese remains the primary language used by businesses and restaurants in Chinatown.
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Chinatown: An illustrated history of the Chinese Communities of Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax
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live music venue is in the northern end of Chinatown, although this 1940s establishment was there before the neighbourhood became Chinatown.
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In the early 21st century, downtown neighbourhoods became more attractive to urban professionals and young people who work in the
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entitled "Chinatown" (Season 1, episode 6), Toronto's Dundas and Spadina Chinatown stood in for Chicago's Chinatown.
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Historically, Toronto's Downtown Chinatown has been represented by immigrants and families from southern China and
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indicate neighbourhoods now defunct. For information on the evolution of each neighbourhood in general, see
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Toronto's downtown Chinatown is one of the largest in North America. It is centred on the intersection of
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the neighbourhood has also been a draw for property developers, changing the face of the neighbourhood.
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in Chinatown. The bilingual signs (in Chinese and English) were first introduced in the 1970s.
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Meanwhile, since the 2010s, the first Chinatown was transformed into a Little Japan.
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Toronto's Chinatown is featured prominently in the 2008 collection of short stories
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Toronto's Chinatown : the changing social organization of an ethnic community
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Although the present downtown Chinatown is one of the more well known Chinese
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and Toronto (1990s-Present): Centred near Steeles Avenue and Kennedy Road (
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developed at the intersection of Broadview Avenue and Gerrard Street East.
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To the east of Spadina Avenue, numerous university students attending the
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of surrounding areas and potentially changing the face of West Chinatown.
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run through Chinatown, with the latter line have dedicated right-of-way.
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The present neighbourhood was the result of the government expropriating
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In the following decades, students and skilled workers arrived from
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The Chinese in Toronto from 1878: From Outside to Inside the Circle
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The creation of this Chinatown was driven by the demolition of
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pronunciations into Chinese characters, while streets such as
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live in many of the small houses built as workers' housing.
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Street level "downtown" Chinatown at the intersection of
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destination while maintaining its cultural character.
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Street level "downtown" Chinatown at the intersection of Dundas Street and Spadina Avenue
Dundas Street
Spadina Avenue
Chinatown, Toronto is located in Toronto
43°39′10″N 79°23′53″W / 43.6529°N 79.3980°W / 43.6529; -79.3980
Canada
Province
Ontario
Toronto
ethnic enclave
downtown core
Toronto
Ontario
Spadina Avenue
Dundas Street West
Toronto's first Chinatown
new city hall
public square
Chinatowns in Toronto
East Chinatown


lion dance
First Chinatown
First Chinatown
exclusion act
Bathurst Street
Hong Kong
Guangdong
Southeast Asia

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