Map of Kensington Market (Toronto )For over a 100 years Kensington Market has been a vibrant immigrant community, and more recently a popular tourist destination. There are small streets with many independent shops selling food, clothing, etc... Canadians across the country know the neighbourhood from the TV show The King of Kensington or Twitch City. In the summer there are popular Car-free days organized. Categories: Historic Photos and Details Photos Videos Other web sites (List of other areas with maps.) |
Historic photos and videos
'Live chickens and fresh eggs outside 253 Augusta Ave - Kensington Market 1964-1974' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1970 ( direct link )
'Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street West intersection' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1968 ( direct link )
'Kensington fruit market - hanging bananas - looking east to Spadina along St. Andrews from Kensington Ave - house is now missing top dormers' from York University YorkSpace - 1965 ( direct link )
'Street life and cars in Kensington Market' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1963 ( direct link )
'Kensington Stores - Star Service stores, McGuires Appliances (Spadina and Baldwin)' from Toronto Public Library - 1954 ( direct link )
'Hebrew Men of England Synagogue then Western Congregational Church with horse drawn Bendens delivery truck' from Toronto Public Library - 1947 ( direct link )
'77-79 Nassau Street in 1943' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1943 ( direct link )
'Geese at the rear of 184-1/2 Baldwin Street' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1934 ( direct link )
'Curtains, wood, and carpets at the rear of 81-83 Oxford Street' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1933 ( direct link )
'Standard Theatre - first purpose built Yiddish theatre in North America - Dundas and Spadina -Hebrew theatre sign' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1930 ( direct link )
'Spadina and Dundas, showing loading, without safety boulevard' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1924 ( direct link )
'Northeast corner of Dundas and Spadina' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1922 ( direct link )
'Alley east of Dundas running north from Spadina' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1922 ( direct link )
'John Rydall blacksmith and garage, Oxford St., n.e. cor. Augusta Ave.' from Toronto Public Library - 1920 ( direct link )
'Boy outside 181 Baldwin St ' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1919 ( direct link )
'Street life outside181 Baldwin St' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1919 ( direct link )
'Belt Line car 592 passing street car track construction on Spadina Avenue' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1919 ( direct link )
'Horse drawn Andrews Bread cart on Spadina Ave. at Nassau' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1919 ( direct link )
'Dr. Henry H. Moorhouse house at Dundas and Spadina' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1915 ( direct link )
'Trees and a fountain in Bellevue Square' from Official City of Toronto Archive - 1913 ( direct link )
'House where Sir Francis Hincks was said to have hidden after the Rebellion of 1837 Spadina and Glen Baillie Place ' from Toronto Public Library - 1885 ( direct link )
Photos
'Chinatown EGR Horus mural 2 - Kensington Market :: seems Artless' from seems Artless - 2010 ( direct link )
'Kensington Market Art sign 1' from seems Artless - 2010 ( direct link )
'Welcome to Kensington Market' from seems Artless - 2010 ( direct link )
'Kensington Market Art sign 2' from seems Artless - 2010 ( direct link )
'Kensington Good Egg sign' from seems Artless - 2010 ( direct link )
'The band Excalate plays in Kensington Market 2010 ' from seems Artless - 2010 ( direct link )
'Chinatown EGR Horus mural 1' from seems Artless - 2010 ( direct link )
'Chinatown EGR Horus mural 3 - Kensington Market :: seems Artless' from seems Artless - 2010 ( direct link )
'Chinatown EGR Horus mural 4' from seems Artless - 2010 ( direct link )
'Chinatown EGR Horus mural 5 -fish' from seems Artless - 2010 ( direct link )
'Colourful stores and roofs by ~meadowkite on deviantART' from Internet - 2009 ( direct link )
'Search results for Kensington Market in Toronto' from Flickr photo sharing - 2009 ( direct link )
'Chinatown tears - Chinatown :: seems Artless' from seems Artless - 2009 ( direct link )
'Nissan Hypercube Panorama Project - Spadina and Baldwin' from photojunkie Panoramas - 2009 ( direct link )
'Nissan Hypercube Panorama Project - Baldwin Avenue' from photojunkie Panoramas - 2009 ( direct link )
'Nissan Hypercube Panorama Project - Baldwin and Augusta' from photojunkie Panoramas - 2009 ( direct link )
'Nissan Hypercube Panorama Project - Kensington Market' from photojunkie Panoramas - 2009 ( direct link )
'Nissan Hypercube Panorama Project - Augusta at Night' from photojunkie Panoramas - 2009 ( direct link )
'Toronto Chinatown face' from seems Artless - 2008 ( direct link )
'shoes on string' from Daily Dose of Imagery - 2007 ( direct link )
'Kensington Car-freedom' from seems Artless - 2006 ( direct link )
'Kensington labyrinth' from seems Artless - 2006 ( direct link )
'Kitty Graffiti' from seems Artless - 2005 ( direct link )
'Block head' from seems Artless - 2005 ( direct link )
'Taking a break from the heat in Toronto by ~kirstie1974 on deviantART' from Internet - 2005 ( direct link )
'Kensington Market Door 3' from seems Artless - 2005 ( direct link )
'Pho cat' from seems Artless - 2005 ( direct link )
Video
'Shopping in Kensington Market for clothes, food...' from YouTube - 2009 ( direct link )
'CityNews: Kensington Market' from CityNews - 2007 ( direct link )
'The restaurants and streets of Chinatown' from Google Video - 2006 ( direct link )
'Kultura Filipino Arts Festival' from SlapDash - 2006 ( direct link )
'A walk through Kensington Market' from www.revver.com - 2006 ( direct link )
Other web pages
'History of the Jewish Kiever Shul' from Internet - 2010 ( direct link )
'History of Bellevue Park on the south side of Russell Creek' from lostrivers.ca - 2010 ( direct link )
'Parks Canada Background on Kensington Market National Historic Site' from Internet - 2010 ( direct link )
'Community site for Kensington Market Toronto, Ontario, Canada' from Internet - 2009 ( direct link )
'Wikipedia entry for Kensington Market ' from Wikipedia - 2007 ( direct link )
'Parks Canada recognized as a National Historic Site of Canada' from Internet - 2006 ( direct link )
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