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Chinatown

The Chinatown BIA's area runs along Spadina Avenue between College Street and Sullivan Street and along Dundas Street West, and the BIA dates Toronto's Chinatown to the late 1870s. Ride Line 1 or Line 2 to Spadina Station and take the 510 Spadina streetcar south into the neighbourhood.

City of Toronto neighbourhood: Kensington-Chinatown

Photo: 松林Ｌ from Toronto, Canada / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence: Toronto. Boundaries: City of Toronto.

From Chinatown

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Skaters on an outdoor rink with snow along the edges, the City Hall towers behind and people seated on a plaza bench

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Toronto City Hall lit up in purple at night, with office windows glowing behind it.

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Shops, signs and pedestrians along Spadina Avenue in Toronto, looking south toward downtown towers.

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Shopfronts, patios and walkers along Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market on a sunny autumn day

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Three translucent dumplings resting in a bamboo steamer basket

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A streetcar on Spadina Avenue beside rows of brick storefronts with Chinese-language signs on the west side north of Dundas Street

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College Street at Montrose Avenue, with a Little Italy street sign, streetcar tracks and parked cars under green trees

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The glass front of TIFF Bell Lightbox on King Street West at night, lit in blue with the tiff and Bell Lightbox signs above the entrance.

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The pale, many-windowed back of Spadina House seen across a lawn and stone steps, under a blue winter sky

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Sources

About Us: Chinatown BIA, Chinatown BIA
Spadina Station, Toronto Transit Commission