3303 70 Avenue, Leduc, AB
Leduc, Alberta MLS® #29465687
Courtesy of Michelle A. Plach/HonestDoor Inc
Cabbagetown
Cabbagetown
Preserving Victorian Housing Architechture
Featured Cabbagetown Listings
Featured Cabbagetown Listings
Cabbagetown is home to many artists, musicians, journalists, writers, lawyers, management consultants, and many other professionals.
175006A Township Road 260
Rural Wheatland County, Alberta MLS® #30509316
Courtesy of Jad Itani/Century 21 Bravo Realty
48 BARRINGTON CRESCENT
Markham (Milliken Mills West), Ontario MLS® #30509330
Courtesy of RITA ZHU/SMART SOLD REALTY
302 - 3501 GLEN ERIN DRIVE
Mississauga (Erin Mills), Ontario MLS® #30509335
Courtesy of MORRES CHELEBI/HOMELIFE/MIRACLE REALTY LTD
118 FROST COURT
Milton (FO Ford), Ontario MLS® #30509311
Courtesy of CECILIA SAILIN WANG/HOMELIFE LANDMARK REALTY INC.
16 Coates Road
Conception Bay South, Newfoundland & Labrador MLS® #30509210
Courtesy of Stephen Porter/Royal LePage Atlantic Homestead
207 - 230 KING STREET E
Toronto (Moss Park), Ontario MLS® #30509296
Courtesy of JESSY MAHL/RIGHT AT HOME REALTY
A709 - 770 WHITLOCK AVENUE
Milton (CB Cobban), Ontario MLS® #30509309
Courtesy of RICK BHATTI/RE/MAX REALTY SERVICES INC.
5604 - 14 YORK STREET
Toronto (Waterfront Communities), Ontario MLS® #30509323
Courtesy of SAVANNAH WENG/RE/MAX DASH REALTY
751 RATHBOURNE AVENUE
Woodstock (Woodstock - North), Ontario MLS® #30509292
Courtesy of Rachel Isaac/Gale Group Realty Brokerage Ltd
92 GREAT OA
Sherwood Park, Alberta MLS® #30509329
Courtesy of Corey McEwen/MaxWell Devonshire Realty
53700 JARDINE ROAD
Prince George, British Columbia MLS® #30509235
Courtesy of Jesse Parker/RE/MAX Core Realty
2904 - 1 KING STREET W
Toronto (Bay Street Corridor), Ontario MLS® #30509297
Courtesy of SAVANNAH WENG/RE/MAX DASH REALTY
304 HERRIDGE CIRCLE
Newmarket (Huron Heights-Leslie Valley), Ontario MLS® #30509305
Courtesy of CECILIA SAILIN WANG/HOMELIFE LANDMARK REALTY INC.
1712 - 8 YORK STREET
Toronto (Waterfront Communities), Ontario MLS® #30509324
Courtesy of SAVANNAH WENG/RE/MAX DASH REALTY
(UNIT2 - 2 BED 2ND FLR) - 250A SHUTER STREET
Toronto (Moss Park), Ontario MLS® #30509298
Courtesy of JENNY LIN KWOK/HOMELIFE EXCELSIOR REALTY INC.
LOWER - 1066 SELBY AVENUE
Oakville (WO West), Ontario MLS® #30509337
Courtesy of YIN YAO/RE/MAX IMPERIAL REALTY INC.
129 APPLEBY CRESCENT
Markham (Milliken Mills West), Ontario MLS® #30509332
Courtesy of VIVIAN XIA/JDL REALTY INC.
1010 - 8 SCOLLARD STREET
Toronto (Annex), Ontario MLS® #30509320
Courtesy of SAVANNAH WENG/RE/MAX DASH REALTY
25 GRENBECK DRIVE
Toronto (Milliken), Ontario MLS® #30509301
Courtesy of SERENA WU/RE/MAX EXCEL REALTY LTD.
305 9560 Fifth St
Sidney, British Columbia MLS® #30509344
Courtesy of Mariann Abram/Pemberton Holmes Ltd - Sidney
32 GAINSVILLE AVENUE
Markham (Unionville), Ontario MLS® #30509333
Courtesy of PAUL XIAO/REAL ONE REALTY INC.
1906 - 68 SHUTER STREET
Toronto (Church-Yonge Corridor), Ontario MLS® #30509294
Courtesy of DAVID XUE DONG LIU/BAY STREET GROUP INC.
111 - 233 BEECROFT ROAD
Toronto (Willowdale West), Ontario MLS® #30509319
Courtesy of SUKI LIU/HOMELIFE NEW WORLD REALTY INC.
704 - 51 TROLLEY CRESCENT
Toronto (Moss Park), Ontario MLS® #30509326
Courtesy of SAVANNAH WENG/RE/MAX DASH REALTY
BASEMENT - 132 PENINSULA CRESCENT
Richmond Hill (Rouge Woods), Ontario MLS® #30509302
Courtesy of TERESA GU/HC REALTY GROUP INC.
416 - 130 WIDDICOMBE HILL BOULEVARD
Toronto (Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview), Ontario MLS® #30509307
Courtesy of RYAN MATTHEW ANTHONY/RIGHT AT HOME REALTY
1510 - 21 CARLTON STREET
Toronto (Church-Yonge Corridor), Ontario MLS® #30509321
Courtesy of SAVANNAH WENG/RE/MAX DASH REALTY
23 FENFLOWER COURT
Brampton (Snelgrove), Ontario MLS® #30509308
Courtesy of JAIDEV GAIND/EXECUTIVE REAL ESTATE SERVICES LTD.
2111 - 4011 BRICKSTONE MEWS
Mississauga (Creditview), Ontario MLS® #30509334
Courtesy of JOE TU/HOMELIFE LANDMARK REALTY INC.
1013 - 770 BAY STREET
Toronto (Bay Street Corridor), Ontario MLS® #30509295
Courtesy of SAVANNAH WENG/RE/MAX DASH REALTY
127 SULLIVAN AVENUE
Thorold (Thorold Downtown), Ontario MLS® #30509315
Courtesy of Anthony Feor/EXP REALTY
156 RIDGEWOOD ROAD
Toronto (Rouge), Ontario MLS® #30509327
Courtesy of GEORGIA KOTIADIS-CARNEVALE/ROYAL LEPAGE SIGNATURE REALTY
1114 - 5 DEFRIES STREET
Toronto (Regent Park), Ontario MLS® #30509322
Courtesy of SAVANNAH WENG/RE/MAX DASH REALTY
404, 3204 Rideau Place SW
Calgary, Alberta MLS® #30509341
Courtesy of Dallas Barclay/REMAX ACA Realty
105 168 Green Village Lane
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia MLS® #30508375
Courtesy of Angela Forgeron/RE/MAX Nova
1232 Peregrine PLACE N
Regina, Saskatchewan MLS® #30507656
Courtesy of Ashley Oddo/RE/MAX Crown Real Estate
230 8497 YOUNG ROAD|Chilliwack Proper South
Chilliwack, British Columbia MLS® #30508659
Courtesy of Lee Hansen/Sutton Group-West Coast Realty (Abbotsford)
1329 TARA DRIVE
Ottawa, Ontario MLS® #30508882
Courtesy of Peter Sardelis/CENTURY 21 SYNERGY REALTY INC.
LPH01 - 15 LEGION ROAD
Toronto (Mimico), Ontario MLS® #30508919
Courtesy of HASSAN NAZARI/CENTURY 21 LEADING EDGE REALTY INC.
UPPER UNIT - 641 CALEDONIA ROAD
Toronto (Briar Hill-Belgravia), Ontario MLS® #30508921
Courtesy of CLAUDIO NUNES/ROYAL LEPAGE MAXIMUM REALTY
4069 FRACCHIONI DRIVE
Lincoln (Beamsville), Ontario MLS® #30508926
Courtesy of Deep Singh/RE/MAX EXCELLENCE REAL ESTATE
Toronto Cabbagetown Community
Toronto Cabbagetown Community
Cabbagetown is a neighbourhood in central Toronto. It largely features semi-detached Victorian houses and is recognized as "the largest continuous area of preserved Victorian housing in all of North America".
HISTORY
Cabbagetown's history began in the 1840's when thousands of Irish immigrants settled there after fleeing the potato famine in their homeland. To help put food on the table these first Cabbagetown residents grew cabbages on their front lawns, which is how this district came to be known as Cabbagetown.
The area grew up in the 1840s around the Winchester Street Bridge, which before the construction of the Prince Edward Viaduct was the main northern bridge over the Don River. This was near the site where Castle Frank Brook flowed in the Don River. By the bridge the Don Vale Tavern and Fox's Inn were established to cater to travelers. In 1850 the Toronto Necropolis was established in the area as the city's main cemetery.
In the late 19th century the area was absorbed into the city of Toronto. It became home to the working class Irish inhabitants who were employed in the industries along the lake shore to the south in Corktown. Brick Victorian style houses were built throughout the area.
After the war the area became increasingly impoverished. A large number of poorer residents moved in, many resorting to share one house among multiple families. The nineteenth century brick houses began deteriorating, and as landlords saw less value in the neighbourhood, they were not maintained. It became known as one of Toronto's largest slums and much of the original Cabbagetown was razed in the late 1940s to make room for the Regent Park housing project.
The construction of new housing projects was halted in the 1970s. A bylaw was approved in the 1970s to ban any building higher than four storeys, in reaction to the high density high rises being built in neighbouring St. James Town.
Cabbagetown was gentrified by affluent professionals, beginning in the 1970s. Many residents restored small Victorian row houses and became community activists.
Vestiges of a 1960s, counter-culture ambiance remain at vintage clothing stores, health food stores and a gestalt therapy clinic. A Victorian farm, once the site of a zoo, is located adjacent to Riverdale Park West, where a weekly farmer's market is held. A short distance away is the Cabbagetown Youth Centre, home of the Cabbagetown Boxing Club, a reminder of an earlier, and rougher, past.
FESTIVALS
The (Annual) Cabbagetown Festival is held on the second weekend in September each year. Various individual events during the week lead up to the two-day Festival on the weekend. The highlight of the Festival is a parade on Saturday morning, which usually starts at 10:00 a.m.
The first Sunday in May sees the annual Forsythia festival organized by the Cabbagetown Residents Association. The festival includes a parade from Riverdale Park West to Wellesley Park, where games and family entertainment are held.
CABBAGETOWN REAL ESTATE
The neighbourhood is home to many artists, musicians, journalists and writers. Other residents include professors, doctors and social workers, many affiliated with the nearby University of Toronto. Proximity to the financial district and downtown core have also made the area popular with other professionals such as lawyers, management consultants and those in financial services.
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Toronto Neighbourhood Guide
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