Art Gallery of Ontario

The early history of Toronto's Jewish community through mass immigration of the late 19th-early 20th century.

10 minutes

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Original character of the neighbourhood. Establishment of Jewish institutions, absorption of immigrants.

7 minutes

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Government immigration policies, Jewish reaction to them.

3 minutes

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Formerly Eitz Chaim school. Colourful characters in the school's history.

4 minutes

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George Brown House. Some non-Jewish Canadian context. The Jewish history of the public school next door.

3 minutes

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We'll learn some interesting details about the commercial history of the street as we walk through it to Henry St.

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Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church, formerly the Henry Street synagogue. Synagogue architecture. Early synagogues and Toronto's first Jewish architects.

10 minutes

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Rabbi of the Henry Street Synagogue. 206 and 207 Beverley: Introduction to Cecil Street as institutional hub of the older Jewish community. 24 Cecil Street: Labour Zionist HQ and school. Its later political history. 33-58 Cecil Street: An overview of the Jewish organizations and institutions once housed here. Cecil Street Community Centre: The building's past as a synagogue and centre of traditional entertainment.

24 minutes

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Northbound from Cecil St to the El Mocambo: The less traditional side of the neighbourhood. Spadina Avenue cowboys of the 1930s and '40s. Southbound, back to Cecil Street: Grossman's Tavern, commercial development on the street and the Spadina music scene. Spadina Avenue, west side at Baldwin Street: How Kensington became a market. Spadina, between Dundas and St. Andrew St: Yiddish theatre, delicatessens, dairy restaurants, and the history of the hat trick.

26 minutes

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The Minsker Synagogue. St. Andrew St. as the neighbourhood in miniature. Labour Lyceum across the street. History of the synagogue, the first in the kensington area

5 minutes