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As part of the 2025 Toronto Jane’s Walk Festival, step into the history of health and disease in Toronto with records from the City of Toronto Archives. On our route from Nathan Phillips Square to St. James Park, we’ll explore some of Toronto’s early public health initiatives – and what life was like in the city’s early days before public health services existed.
Toronto’s post-war era was marked by a long period of optimism and prosperity, which among other things, resulted in massive architectural projects emblematic of the city’s wealth and modernist ambitions. The years between 1960 and 1989 witnessed the city’s downtown core transformed through large-scale land redevelopments. These projects were made possible by the sudden availability of railway lands, changes in architecture and engineering, and the growth of Toronto’s banking and financial sector. This exhibit explores the impact of these visionary decades, and the demolitions of older city blocks that resulted. The structures that arose in their place forever changed the Toronto streetscape.
