The History of Parkdale
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Old Toronto Series: The History of Parkdale
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Old Toronto Series: The History of Parkdale
Video produced in association with Myseum of Toronto
Researched, edited, hosted and produced by Morgan Cameron Ross
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Luv parkdale...grew up there
Great video!!! Thank you.
Thank you!
Really enjoy the series.......I lived in many of the different areas yov"ve covered , Cabbage town ....The Annex.....Parkdale....Eglinton Village...Yorkville....First time in a long time feeling sentimental about "Toronto the Good". Thanks Morgan for your appreciated effort.
Thank you for the kind words!!
I concurr , i enjoy this channel very much
Oh yeah spent the first 15 years of my life here. Elementary, middle and highschool. I will always call Parkdale home. ❤️
Gladstone Ave near St. Veronica. : )
Thank you for this! Parkdale is my favourite neighborhood in TO.
What a damn shame of the effects the gardiner has done to Parkdale. I am so happy to see your video on the history of this. So cool you sources all these old photos and videos too! Great production.. you deserve much more views! Subbed!
I lived there in the 80’s when I worked at Massey ferguson. Me and my good pal used to frequent the edge water hotel for some beers, live bands, dollar dinners in the basement and good dope before it was legalized. Good times.
I used to live on Tyndall Ave (my parents still live there). Had so many great memories growing up there. My friends and I used to ride our bikes over the Gardiner to Lakeshore :) Times were so much simpler back then!
Omg my parents lived there too in the seventies when they first immigrated to Toronto
I lived on Thorburn Ave. South toward Springhurst. The best was loitering the Ex after it closed. We would bike, skateboard, or go kite flying all over the CNE grounds. Today there's no McDonalds, there's no shortcuts, no Bars, Restaurants, shops, pool halls, clubs, parks, trees, bugs, squirrels, and butterflies. People today missed out on life.
Thanks for this. Parkdale is a great neighbourhood, warts and all.
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Great video.
Parkdale is a perfect example of a great area that was destroyed by city planners and councillors who just had socio political ideas but had zero comprehension as to the impact of their actions.
Wipe out the connection to the lake by building the expressway.
Allow too many apartment buildings to be built, then slap rent controls on them. (This attracts bad property owners who know they will never get the return on any investment so they just let the buildings fall apart)
Build too many public housing developments and then not pay attention to who's living in these properties. (Cue the gangs.)
Buy big mansions and turn them into half way houses for drug addicts or mental patients.
The city planners did this.
Parkdale, even with the massive influx of money into the city, is still struggling.
I lived there ftom 1994 to 2002 and 2005 to 08. It had a rough reputation that was worse than it's bite. It was close to downtown where i worjed but relatively cheap. It was a lot of people like me and new immigrants and the down and out crowd. But it worked. I lived walking to Sunnyside in the summer. I have mostly good memories of Parkdale.
Nice work man. Appreciate the content. Keep it up!
Thanks Matt!
Love the old footage! Great channel
Thanks!
use to live here.i miss it
Thanks for this. Parkdale for life.
Great area!
Love this series. Thanks so much.
Thank you
Thanks for watching Wanda!
Great video I wish it was longer.!!
This was the first place I lived in upon immigrating to Canada in 1985. It was run down and very dangerous. Drugs were a HUGE problem in the neighbourhood back then. I still remember discovering that Parkdale was at one point an affluent area and couldn’t understand how it so quickly fell off. Nice video!
Good one. Thanks!
Thanks!
You can always find free mattresses on the curb on Jameson south of King. So there's that.
You're not wrong
I'm a new superintendent on jameson. That's so bang on lmao
@@glynnbroughton9654 There's a good selection every week- bargains galore!
Awesome stuff. Good work. :)
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They truley screwed up as the years went on..
Gentrification, bloody condos.
I live in South Parkdale. Have to say that such a great location is so poor. I want Queen St to be demolished and some mid/high-rise condos being built. Maybe that will change the dynamics in the area. The 2 new condos at King and Dufferin is a good start.
Guys, please don't say history and history. Take a walk at 1 AM. You are going to see rats everywhere. Especially on Queen. They could take care of these old building but rich owners of these buildings live in mansions now.
Then what? Demolish all or most of South Parkdale and make new condos. This way we can get rid of rats
ah darn l was hoping for more older pics. My parents moved us east to the Beaches in 1960/61. Me and my sister really missed the CNE all year round it was our playground..we lived on Dunn Ave south of Kingand went to Holy Family school thank you so much
My great grandfather was irish right off the boat. He was a beat cop in the heart of parkdale in the 20s and 30s 14 division .A big scrappy irish man who knew how to throw his weight around and a low tolerance for disobedience. The transformation of the neighborhood was a bitter pill to swallow.
To live in parkdale today is still very much a community of itself tho. And thats rare in these times
My great grandfather owned the Parkdale Hotel from 1930 - 1950. Mathias McDonald. I am writing about it and would be interested in connecting if you have stories to share.
Wow. Things don't change. My friend was murdered there about 25 years ago.
I'm in junction right beside it
As a kid back in the the 80's, Parkdale wasn't that bad. We used to ride our bikes through there on our way to High Park with no problems at all.
Yep. I know
Do Earlscourt next, my neighbourhood
Does Parkdale start at Ossington and Queen ?
Queen and Dufferin.
Underutilised 0:30 does that mean they were just growing food ?
The turning light at Jameson turning on to Queen is just ridiculously stupid for vehicles.
The area with those low rise buildings is still known as the slum of the city. Meth and crack heads are everywhere in Toronto but that section of Queen is "special".
I used to live there in the early 2000s and attended queen vic public school for 3 years. I remember the buildings were pretty bad back then, not sure if it's the same now.
I totally agree with you. Section of Queen is a whole new level. Such a great location it is for the city as it is close to downtown core and Etobicoke and the Gardiner and Lakeshore but see, it is home to meth and crackheads
@@hasibchowdhury1742 It is not the same now. Back then it was pretty bad. Now it's terrifying
There are wart$?
What sucks now is that parkdale has really gone downhill After the gardiner went up the hills that were there used have houses and you could run to the lake after the gardiner was put in it killed the land value palais royal got less popular and then public housing went in killing the area
rip parkdale
In 2 more years Toronto will be non existent. I hate Condos, they eradicated everything that was Toronto. It's pathetic. People don't know what they've missed. I cherish i lived what was left. The Future is a Socialess Society.