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.
4714 ANNANDALE Road
Dundas, Prince Edward Island MLS® #30460107
Courtesy of Jessica Misener/EXIT Realty PEI
3248 Old Sambro Road
Williamswood, Nova Scotia MLS® #30460210
Courtesy of Kelly Brown/Keller Williams Select Realty
42 SHERMAN Avenue S Unit# MAIN
Hamilton, Ontario MLS® #30460289
Courtesy of Hayley Redmond/Coldwell Banker Community Professionals
80 MIDCREST CIRCLE
Brampton (Credit Valley), Ontario MLS® #30460429
Courtesy of Pardeep Singh/ROYAL LEPAGE SIGNATURE REALTY
73 - 601 SHORELINE DRIVE
Mississauga (Cooksville), Ontario MLS® #30460431
Courtesy of HARPREET SINGH/RE/MAX GOLD REALTY INC.
19587 LESAGE ROAD
Hudsons Hope, British Columbia MLS® #30462519
Courtesy of Doug Petersen/RE/MAX Action Realty Inc
314 - 25 RICHMOND STREET E
Toronto (Church-Yonge Corridor), Ontario MLS® #30463459
Courtesy of AHSAN R. QURESHI/AIMHOME REALTY INC.
94 VINTON Road
Ancaster, Ontario MLS® #30463144
Courtesy of Evan DiMichele/RE/MAX Escarpment Realty Inc.
38 Silverado Skies Crescent SW
Calgary, Alberta MLS® #30461903
Courtesy of Amit Gupta/RE/MAX Real Estate (Mountain View)
1126 LINE 8 Road
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario MLS® #30461256
Courtesy of Youming Zhao/Right at Home Realty
170 THE QUEENSWAY
Barrie (Innis-Shore), Ontario MLS® #30463346
Courtesy of CHAD TRAYNOR/CENTURY 21 B.J. ROTH REALTY LTD.
989 LITTLE CEDAR AVENUE
Innisfil, Ontario MLS® #30461193
Courtesy of DANIEL MATTHEW GREENBAUM/FOREST HILL REAL ESTATE INC.
218 2nd AVENUE W
Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan MLS® #30461302
Courtesy of Derek Morgan/Realty Executives Saskatoon
810 27254 ALDERGROVE TOWN CENTRE DRIVE
Langley, British Columbia MLS® #30461294
Courtesy of David Tsen/eXp Realty of Canada Inc.
1506 - 33 HELENDALE AVENUE
Toronto (Yonge-Eglinton), Ontario MLS® #30461357
Courtesy of JUNE BURROWES/BAKER REAL ESTATE INCORPORATED
5 WELLINGTON Street Unit# 807
Kitchener, Ontario MLS® #30461369
Courtesy of Matt Bowlby/Royal LePage Wolle Realty
4119 FALLINGBROOK ROAD
London South (South V), Ontario MLS® #30461395
Courtesy of AHMED WAQAS/NU-VISTA PINNACLE REALTY BROKERAGE INC
14 LEHTINEN CRESCENT
Belleville (Belleville Ward), Ontario MLS® #30461388
Courtesy of Dominique McIntyre/Exp Realty
127 KINROSS PRIVATE
Ottawa, Ontario MLS® #30461434
Courtesy of Erin Phillips/ROYAL LEPAGE TEAM REALTY
7863 ALFRED STREET
Niagara Falls (West Wood), Ontario MLS® #30461441
Courtesy of Debbie Pine/ROYAL LEPAGE NRC REALTY
92 FOXWELL STREET
Toronto (Rockcliffe-Smythe), Ontario MLS® #30461458
Courtesy of FRANK LOURENCO/SUTTON GROUP-HERITAGE REALTY INC.
1 - 1400 DUNDAS STREET E
Whitby (Blue Grass Meadows), Ontario MLS® #30460575
Courtesy of REZA POOYANMEHR/RE/MAX HALLMARK FIRST GROUP REALTY LTD.
5 MELIA LANE
Vaughan (Vellore Village), Ontario MLS® #30460587
Courtesy of DAVID ELFASSY/SUTTON GROUP-ADMIRAL REALTY INC.
11 MAPLE COURT
Innisfil, Ontario MLS® #30460594
Courtesy of RICHARD SHAWN GIBB/CENTURY 21 HERITAGE GROUP LTD.
1336 CREEKWAY PRIVATE
Ottawa, Ontario MLS® #30460607
Courtesy of Nurcan Keskin/ROYAL LEPAGE TEAM REALTY
376 WILLIAM STREET
Niagara-on-the-Lake (Town), Ontario MLS® #30460621
Courtesy of Lisa Palmer/BOSLEY REAL ESTATE LTD.,
28 CRENDON DRIVE
Toronto (Etobicoke West Mall), Ontario MLS® #30460633
Courtesy of MICHAEL JOHN ILCIO/RE/MAX PROFESSIONALS INC.
3543 KINGBIRD COURT
Mississauga (Erin Mills), Ontario MLS® #30460638
Courtesy of TIMOTHY J. N. PARSONS/SUTTON GROUP QUANTUM REALTY INC.
731 ELGIN STREET N
Cambridge, Ontario MLS® #30460671
Courtesy of NANDA MUTHANNA PUCHIMADA/HOMELIFE SILVERCITY REALTY INC.
16 SNYDER Avenue S
Elmira, Ontario MLS® #30460690
Courtesy of MONIQUE ROES/Royal LePage Wolle Realty
1071 Peters Road
Cambridge, Prince Edward Island MLS® #30460688
Courtesy of Denise Holland/COLDWELL BANKER/PARKER REALTY MONTAGUE
3668 Mines Bass River Road
Lornevale, Nova Scotia MLS® #30460727
Courtesy of Kenneth MacKeigan/Exit Real Estate Professionals
1105 - 5949 YONGE STREET
Toronto (Newtonbrook East), Ontario MLS® #30460760
Courtesy of LESLIE ELLEN SCOTT/RE/MAX HALLMARK REALTY LTD.
707 - 5 SOUDAN AVENUE
Toronto (Mount Pleasant West), Ontario MLS® #30460950
Courtesy of GREGORY MICHAEL BROWN/RE/MAX HALLMARK REALTY LTD.
82 DAVID DUNLAP CIRCLE
Toronto (Banbury-Don Mills), Ontario MLS® #30460962
Courtesy of SUKI LIU/HOMELIFE NEW WORLD REALTY INC.
122 DUVERNET AVENUE
Toronto (East End-Danforth), Ontario MLS® #30460974
Courtesy of SEAN ATRIE/ROYAL LEPAGE SIGNATURE REALTY
PH9 - 55 AUSTIN DRIVE
Markham (Markville), Ontario MLS® #30461011
Courtesy of MARIA TSIAOUSIDIS/RE/MAX ULTIMATE REALTY INC.
408 - 3008 WILLIAM CUTMORE BOULEVARD
Oakville (JM Joshua Meadows), Ontario MLS® #30461054
Courtesy of ERIC CHEN/REAL ONE REALTY INC.
25-5 Moase Road
Summerside, Prince Edward Island MLS® #30461080
Courtesy of Steven Barrett/CENTURY 21 NORTHUMBERLAND REALTY
407, 317 19 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta MLS® #30461131
Courtesy of Christina Hagerty/RE/MAX Realty Professionals
811 - 9085 JANE STREET
Vaughan (Concord), Ontario MLS® #30461186
Courtesy of JORDAN COHEN/RIGHT AT HOME REALTY
101 CRYSTALVIEW CRESCENT
Brampton (Bram East), Ontario MLS® #30461460
Courtesy of VIKRAM ARORA/HOMELIFE/MIRACLE REALTY LTD
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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