Hi Pat, You forgot an Italian one!
The ~real~ Little Italy is along College, between about Bathurst and Ossington. The Italian district you mention along St. Clair West is called Corsa Italia. The other places you mention are in the 'burbs, so they don't count <g>. So I guess that makes 4 Italian areas by your count. It is interesting, though, the way the older ethnic neighbourhoods have retained their identity, and as the community has become upwardly mobile, they've migrated to the suburbs, creating new enclaves out there. Toronto certainly is a city of ethnic neighbourhoods, with very distinct areas of East Indian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, West Indian, Ethiopian, Somalian and Korean ethnicity, just to mention a few. Then, it gets real complicated when you consider the Indo Carribean and Indo African areas (that is people of East Indian descent who migrated to Africa (South Africa and Uganda, mostly), and the Carribean, made distinct cultures in those places, and then moved here. This is an interesting town! regards, frank Pat White wrote: > Keith, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) has _five_ Chinatowns: Downtown, > Downtown East, Scarborough/Agincourt (the suburbs), and just over the city > limits, in the neighboring cities, Mississauga and Markham. The further > from downtown, the higher the income level. > > In the same way, the GTA has three Italian districts, St. Clair/Dufferin > (downtown), Weston/Sheppard (suburban), and Woodbridge (just out of town). > Is it the same in your town? > > Anyone from Toronto should feel free to correct me if I'm out of date. > > Pat White -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
