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Corso Italia is a neighbourhood in
The community is the eastern half of what was earlier known as Earlscourt, Toronto, Earlscourt. Earlscourt was originally settled by British immigrants in 1906, and was annexed by the City of Toronto in 1910.
By the 1970s, Italian immigrants from
Corso Italia BIA
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Toronto
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, Ontario
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, Canada, situated on St. Clair Avenue West
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, between Westmount Avenue (just east of Dufferin Street
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) and Lansdowne Avenue
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. It is contained within the larger city-recognized neighbourhood of Corso Italia-Davenport
Corso Italia-Davenport is a neighbourhood in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its boundaries, according to the City of Toronto, are the CNR tracks to the west, Morrison Avenue to the north, Westmount Avenue to the east on the northern portion and ...
.
The neighbourhood includes numerous café
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s, clothing shops, shoe stores, restaurants
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, food markets, as well as several gelaterias and bakeries. The community is considered Toronto's second Italian ethnic enclave
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after Little Italy
Little Italy is a general name for an ethnic enclave populated primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighborhood. The concept of "Little Italy" holds many different aspects of the Italian culture. There are s ...
on College Street. There is also a significant Latin American Canadian, Latin American and Portuguese Canadians, Portuguese community in the area.
History
The community is the eastern half of what was earlier known as Earlscourt, Toronto, Earlscourt. Earlscourt was originally settled by British immigrants in 1906, and was annexed by the City of Toronto in 1910.
By the 1970s, Italian immigrants from Little Italy
Little Italy is a general name for an ethnic enclave populated primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighborhood. The concept of "Little Italy" holds many different aspects of the Italian culture. There are s ...
on College Street, moved northward to St. Clair Avenue. One of the largest celebrations on St. Clair Avenue West was when Italy national football team, Italy won the 1982 FIFA World Cup, which involved an estimated 300,000 fans, shutting the street down for nearly 20 blocks between Caledonia and Oakwood. In 1981, about 35,000 Italians lived in this area, however, by 1991, had dropped to 20,000. Although the character of Corso Italia is still Italian, the demographics of this neighbourhood have changed drastically with a smaller Italian population than originally. Much of the Italian population has moved to the suburbs northwest of Toronto, in particular, Vaughan, King, Ontario, King, and Caledon, Ontario, Caledon.
Corso Italia was a Business Improvement Area (BIA) in Toronto in 1984.
See also
* Little Italy, Toronto * Italian Canadians * Italians in TorontoReferences
External links
Corso Italia BIA
Ethnic enclaves in Ontario European-Canadian culture in Toronto Neighbourhoods in Toronto Little Italys in Canada {{Toronto-geo-stub