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The bright lights of a
supermarket in one of
Toronto’s Chinatowns

late 1850s during the gold
rush. The first Chinese to
arrive in Toronto came at the
end of the 19th century as
workers on the Canadian
Pacific Railway, settling in
towns along the rail route.
The Chinese found work in the
Toronto laundries, factories,
and on the railways. The last
immigration wave saw pros­
per ous Hong Kong Chin ese
professionals come to live in bewildering variety of Chinese College. Seen by the church
Toronto in the 1990s. delicacies, and at night bright as challenging its control of
Chinese Canadians inhabit neon signs advertise dozens education, the new institution
every part of the city but are of inviting restaurants. weathered accusations of
concentrated in four China­ godlessness and proceeded
towns, the largest and liveliest to swallow its rivals, becoming
of which is focused on Spadina in the process one of Canada’s
Avenue, between Queen and 8 ' most prestigious universities.
College streets, and along University of Toronto This unusual history explains
Dundas Street, west of the Art  C3 ⌂ 25 King’s College the rambling layout of the
Gall ery of Ontario. These few Circle  St George, Queen’s present campus, a leafy area
city blocks are immediately Park v College 506 sprinkled with colleges. The
different from their surround­ ∑ utoronto.ca best­looking buildings are
ings, with neighborhood near the west end of Wellesley
sights, sounds, and smells The University of Toronto Street. Here, on Hart House
that are reminiscent of Hong grew out of a Royal Charter Circle, lie the ivy­clad walls and
Kong. Stores and stalls spill granted in 1827 by King delightful quadrangles of Hart
over the sidewalks, offer ing a George IV to Toronto’s King’s House (1919), built in imitation
of some Oxbridge university
colleges in Britain. Nearby,
Stores and stalls spill over the sidewalks, King’s College Circle contains
offer ing a bewildering variety of Chinese University College, an imposing
delicacies, and at night bright neon signs Neo­Romanesque edifice
dating from 1859; Knox College
advertise dozens of inviting restaurants. with its rough gray sandstone
masonry; and the fine rotunda
of the university’s Convocation
Hall. UTAC, the University of
Toronto Art Centre, has a
permanent exhibition of
Byzantine icons and other
contemporary exhibitions.
Round off a visit to the campus
with a short stroll along
Philosophers’ Walk, where the
manicured lawns lead behind
the Royal Ontario Museum
and up to Bloor Street West.

The unusual curved towers of
Toronto City Hall, over looking
Nathan Phillips Square
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