The Ward Narrative and Counter narrative

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What was The Ward?

Transcript of The Ward Narrative and Counter narrative

  • What was The Ward?

  • The City of Toronto, 1834

  • The Ward in 1842: Cane Topographical Plan of the City and Liberties of Toronto

  • The Ward in 1851: Sanford Fleming Topographical Plan of the City of Toronto

  • The Ward in 1872: Wadsworth & Unwin Map of the City of Toronto

  • Goads Fire Insurance Map, 1884

  • Goads, 1899

  • Goads, 1910

  • Goads 1924

  • And a 2015 map

  • The Lower Ward, 2015

  • From 1900 to 1945, there was an accepted Ward `narrativemoral leprosycontaminationopiumprostitutioncrimefilth

  • Poverty

  • Desperate living conditions

  • A sink of infectious disease

  • Hidden squalor

  • Much less well documented is the Wards counter-narrative its alternative history

  • Culture

  • Music

  • WorshipBritish Methodist EpiscopalBeth Tzedec

  • Community

  • Industry & Commerce

  • A place to grow up

  • Diversity

  • A source of artistic inspiration

  • Ethnic restaurants

  • In the end, a problem to be solved