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In the 1970s, the Triads entered Toronto with the two most important being the Big Circle Boys and the 14k Triad, both of Hong Kong, who smuggled in heroin from the "Golden Triangle" nations of Burma, Laos and Thailand. [102] Starting around about 1975, complaints about extortion by the Triads in Toronto's Chinatown became common. [103]
Several of its neighbourhoods, such as Long Branch, New Toronto, and Mimico, were villages independent of Etobicoke. Others, such as Claireville, Islington and Thistletown were former postal villages established when Etobicoke was an agrarian district. Others are residential subdivisions built after World War II as Toronto expanded.
The Regent Park Revitalization Plan is an initiative begun in 2005 by the City of Toronto with fellow development, government, and community partners, with a focus on rebuilding the Toronto neighbourhood of Regent Park for 12,500 residents over a 15- to 20-year period. The project entails transforming what was once solely a social housing ...
Hillcrest Village. Hillcrest Village is a neighbourhood located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the northern district of North York. It is bordered by Finch to the South, Leslie Street to the West, Steeles to the North and Victoria Park to the East. Both neighbourhoods share the Don Valley as a point of reference in the Eastern ...
Moss Park is a residential neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1] The area known as Moss Park is typically considered to be between Jarvis Street and Parliament Street, south of Dundas Street, an area dominated by public housing projects. According to one set of boundaries of the City of Toronto, it is roughly L-shaped ...
Regent Park is a neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario built in the late 1940s as a public housing project managed by Toronto Community Housing.It sits on what used to be a significant part of the Cabbagetown neighbourhood and is bounded by Gerrard Street East to the north, River Street to the east, Shuter Street to the south and Parliament Street to the west.
51,170. • Density. 6,073/km 2 (15,730/sq mi) Jane and Finch is a neighbourhood located in the northwest end of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the district of North York. Centred at the intersection of Jane Street and Finch Avenue West, the area is roughly bounded by Highway 400 to the west, Black Creek to the east, Sheppard Avenue to the south ...
Table. Neighbourhood boundaries are approximated to the nearest census tract. The colours indicate the former municipality (FM): Purple - Old City of Toronto (OCoT) Pink - Scarborough (S) Blue - North York (NY)