Toronto's Chinatown (Chinese: 多倫多華埠) is an ethnic enclave in downtown with a high concentration of ethnic Chinese residents and businesses, extending along Dundas Street West and Spadina Avenue. First developed in the late 19th century, it is now one of the largest Chinatowns in North America and one of several major Chinese-Canadian communities in the Greater Toronto Area.
The earliest record of Toronto's Chinese community is traced to Sam Ching...
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Toronto's Chinatown (Chinese: 多倫多華埠) is an ethnic enclave in downtown with a high concentration of ethnic Chinese residents and businesses, extending along Dundas Street West and Spadina Avenue. First developed in the late 19th century, it is now one of the largest Chinatowns in North America and one of several major Chinese-Canadian communities in the Greater Toronto Area.
The earliest record of Toronto's Chinese community is traced to Sam Ching, who owned a hand laundry business on Adelaide Street in 1878. Ching was the first Chinese person listed in the city's directory. Despite strict limitations placed on Chinese immigration with the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885, Chinatown took shape over the next two decades along Bay Street and Elizabeth Street, as hundreds of Chinese men settled in Toronto from Western Canada after helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
By 1910, the Chinese population in Toronto numbered over a thousand. Hundreds of Chinese-owned businesses had...
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