Entertainment District (Toronto)
The Toronto Entertainment District is an area in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is concentrated around King Street West between University Avenue and Spadina Avenue. It is home to theatres and performing arts centres, the Toronto Blue Jays, and an array of cultural and family attractions. The area was also home to most of the nightclubs in downtown Toronto. They have mostly moved to King St west of Spadina Av just beside the Entertainment District. History Garment District In the first half of the 20th century, the original name of the neighbourhood was the Garment District and it was almost wholly industrial. The Canadian National Railway controlled a huge amount of land along the Lake Ontario waterfront, and to the north many firms took advantage of the easy access to rail and the harbour. The most important industry was textiles and fashion, and the area had few residents. Much of the area was built after the 1904 fire, which forced many businesses to move west of th ...
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John Street (Toronto)
John Street is a street in Downtown Toronto. It runs from Stephanie Street and Grange Park (Toronto), Grange Park in the north to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Front Street (Toronto), Front Street in the south. It is home to a number of Toronto's cultural institutions, including buildings for the CBC, CTV, Toronto International Film Festival. The ''National Post'' has described it as "Running directly through the entertainment district, its spine connects many great cultural institutions, popular retail outlets, restaurants and soon-to-be-built condos." The City of Toronto has dubbed the street a "Cultural Corridor" and a report calls it "the centrepiece of the Toronto Entertainment District, Entertainment District." History John, and other streets in the area, were named after John Graves Simcoe, the founder of York, Upper Canada, York (today Toronto) and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. During the typhus epidemic of 1847, 863 Irish immigrants died of typhu ...
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