Malditah Musings

Exploring The City of Toronto

Toronto has long known as a multicultural city, making it a great place for student group travel. Its unique neighborhoods and marketplaces provide visitors with different sights, sounds, and experiences. Let's take a look what Toronto has to offer.

Three of the most unique place in the city is Chinatown, Kensington Market and Casa Loma.

Chinatown Toronto

Chinatown has a population of more than a quarter of a million people, making them one of the largest Asian communities in North America. There are at least five various Chinatowns located in Toronto, but remains best known town in the intersections of Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street.

People in the area It came from places like Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, China, to name a few. Toronto's original Chinatown was located around the corner of Queen Street West and Bay Street, but when the place was deleted to build the New City Hall in the early 1960s, the Chinese population moved west to the streets around Dundas and Spadina.

Chinatown continues to grow and prosper, offering a number of real internal and external markets food, clothing shops, and medicinal herbs shops and restaurants.

Toronto's Kensington Market

Only a few blocks from Chinatown is Kensington Market. It was started by the British immigrants in the 1790s. Not that it has become a prominent place in the culture until the 1920s. That's when more than 80% of Toronto's population of Jews settled here.

Today, Kensington Market contains an eclectic mix of external and represents the work of food shops, unique restaurants and cafes, vintage clothing boutiques, and more.

Portuguese, West Indian and Caribbean immigrants have settled here, making Kensington Market one of Toronto's most the culturally neighborhood.

Casa Loma in Toronto

Sitting high on a hill, income downtown Toronto, represents Casa Loma. The splendid dream of awake is built in the style of medieval European castles. In addition to the 98-room castle, the grounds of Casa Loma including stables, castle connected to a 800-foot tunneling underground, and six acres of garden property.

Built in the early 1900s, castle was constructed by Sir Henry Pellatt, a prominent businessman Toronto and industrialist. Pellatt to travel to Europe inspired him to build his "house on the hill."

Work began in the castle 1911 and the new house was completed three years later. More than 300 people worked at home and cost a total of 3.5 million dollars to complete.

The evil Palm, financial difficulties forced him to move from his elegant home less than ten years after its construction. Abandoned castle was left to come. Toronto took over ownership of the property in 1933 at Casa Loma was almost demolished.

Thanks to the efforts of the Kiwanis Club of West Toronto, Casa Loma was saved. The Kiwanis Club spearheaded the extensive restoration of the castle, and in 1937, it opened to the public as a tourist attraction.

Visitors will be by walking decorated rooms, climb the towers, and walk through the garden.

Toronto's Chinatown, Kensington Market and Casa Loma are all eligible a visit when planning a student group travel in this region.

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