Discover how Toronto's African and Caribbean diaspora shape dynamic spaces for the Black community to connect, invent, and create in the city.
Explore the farming legacy and many contributions of Toronto's Chinese Canadians to mark the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Explore our digital stories and discover the city around you—whether you're standing in front of a prominent building or curled up on your couch at home.
Our digital stories engage new communities in the discovery, writing, and preservation of our city’s heritage. Working with our partners, emerging historians, and volunteers, Heritage Toronto curates a rotating series of stories about the people, places, and events that have shaped the city.
Explore the lives of Torontonians and the stories of our neighbourhoods.
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Discover how Toronto's African and Caribbean diaspora shape dynamic spaces for the Black community to connect, invent, and create in the city.
Discover notable Black community members from the 19th century, buried at one of the city’s oldest cemeteries, and how they contributed to our modern city.
Explore the transformation of Toronto’s nightlife: from the iconic arts and music complex We’ave, to Club 56, to the rise of DIY events.
Discover how in the middle of the Great Depression, two visionaries, Rosa and H. Spencer Clark, realized their dream of building a self-sufficient artists cooperative, where artists and craftspeople could live, work, and create.
Over three days in August 1918, 50,000 people rioted against Toronto's Greek community. Why were these riots absent from Toronto’s collective memory for decades?
Discover how Chinese Canadians helped build modern Canada, from the tracks of the Canadian Pacific Railway to the farmlands of Ontario, despite a long history of exclusion, exploitation, and racism.
The Artists’ Jazz Band reflected the dynamic arts scene of Toronto in the 1960s. Created by a collective of famous painters who experimented in free jazz, the Artists’ Jazz Band is a case study in how the city went from “Toronto the Good” to “Toronto the Cool.”
Allan Gardens has been a space for women’s movements and gathering since its creation in the mid-19th century. Through the decades, it has remained a staging ground for the blossoming of ideas that have changed the lives of all Canadians.
Learn more about Queen Street West, where a vibrant, queer community has taken shape over the past fifty years.
Our maps allow you to discover the city around you. As self-guided walking tours, use them to guide your urban explorations or enjoy them at home.
Meet the companies, directors, writers, and actors who mounted rebellious performances from the 1950s to the 1980s and helped establish Toronto’s now-thriving theatre scene.
As we contemplate the ongoing process of reconciliation, learn about sites in the city with connections to Indigenous communities and histories, and listen to firsthand Indigenous accounts, perspectives, and lived experiences that breathe life into these sites.
Discover the living history of Little Jamaica, the heart and cultural hub of Toronto's Caribbean population, through the stories and voices of the business owners, residents, artists, and community activists of the neighbourhood.
Characterized by strong religious sentiment, rapid population growth, and socioeconomic upheavals, 19th-century Toronto was an incubator for social reform movements and charitable institutions.
From the discovery of insulin to the first Black licensed practitioners of medicine, Toronto’s scientists, caregivers and activists have contributed to groundbreaking change in health care for over two hundred years.
Meet East Asian community members who through oral histories and recipes share their cultinary heritage while reflecting on recent changes to the North York neighbourhood.
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