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1. This neighbourhood has lots of expensive shops, restaurants and nightlife. You'll find designer boutiques and the Four Seasons Hotel here.
2. This neighbourhood has a boardwalk along the lake, a large outdoor swimming pool, theatre in the park, sidewalk cafes and is home to one of Canada's annual jazz festivals. Parking is scarce during the summer.
3. This is a lovely, established neighbourhood, in Toronto's west end with beautiful houses. It is home to Grenadier Pond where you can row a boat.
4. The largest Victorian enclave in North America, hosts its annual festival on the weekend after Labour Day, and is located centrally. This neighbourhood is home to many parks and beautiful renovated and restored century homes.
5. Second-hand clothes? Street markets? Every food you can imagine? You'll find it in this neighbourhood. In the early 1900s, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, started to settle here. This Jewish market was the start of an old world marketplace which has continued to evolve and to add many other cultures as vendors. It's kind of a part of Chinatown - but it has its own distinct "flavour".
6. Considered one of Toronto's most expensive residential neighbourhoods. It began with the settlement of Sheriff William Botsford Jarvis, and his wife Mary in the 1820s. This is a midtown Toronto neighbourhood with lovely winding streets and mansions.
7. Prior to the 1950s, when Toronto's Bloor-Danforth subway line was built, this neighbourhood was not only a hub in the national railway network but was also a major connection between the City proper and the communities to its north and west. Dundas Street was its major shopping strip.
8. This street is the main strip of Toronto's Greektown. It's mainly in Riverdale. It is famous for its wonderful restaurants (MOSTLY Greek, but you can find French, Belgian, Japanese, Indian...).
9. In 1803, Governor Peter Hunter issued a proclamation that 'all the land north of Front, west of Jarvis, south of King and east of Church street was to be designated officially as the "Market Block."'
This neighbourhood is still home to one of Canada's oldest farmer's markets.
10. Toronto's only castle was built in this neighbourhood (now its name) by Sir William Henry Mill Pellatt, a prominent financier, industrialist, and military man - in 1911.
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