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Planning and Growth Committee Meeting - Section 37
September 10 meeting to permit use of funding for HCDS
Last year, Heritage Toronto was one of several organizations which made representation to the Planning and Growth Committee of Council supporting the use of Section 37 funding for funding Heritage Conservation District Studies. These funds have been important to a number of communities in the past, and it was being proposed to limit their use in the future.
As a result of these efforts, an Official Plan amendment has been drafted by City staff at the direction of Council to formally permit this use of Section 37 funding. The Planning and Growth Committee meeting of September 10th will be considering this amendment at its next meeting on September 10 at 10 am. The meeting will be held in Committee Room 1, on the second floor of City Hall, 100 Queen St West.
A paper or electronic copy of the proposed amendment can be obtained by contacting Rose Eustace of City Planning at 416-397-4073 or reustac@toronto.ca. The report will be online in the Planning and Growth Management Committee agenda approximately one week prior to the meeting.
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The first Chinese resident on record in Toronto was Sam Ching, the owner of a hand laundry business on Adelaide Street in 1878. Though immigration to Canada directly from China was restricted after 1885, Ching was eventually joined by Chinese men who migrated from western Canada after helping to build the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway.
Between 1900 and 1925, Toronto's first Chinese community took shape here, around Elizabeth Street which once ran all the way south to Queen Street. ‘Chinatown' was a bustling commercial and residential area that included restaurants, grocery stores, and traditional clan associations.
This first Chinatown thrived until the late 1940s, when the City of Toronto began its controversial expropriation of much of the neighbourhood to make room for a new City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square. Demolition finally took place in 1955. Some Chinese businesses could not afford to re-locate, and closed. Others packed up and moved west along Dundas Street to Spadina Avenue where they became the heart of today's ‘Old Chinatown'.