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Starting a New Life
in the New World
Once in Toronto, each townsgroup developed its own community in the city. The first distinct Little Italy in the city was in The Ward, a densely settled part of downtown bounded by Queen Street, University Avenue, College Street, and Yonge Street. The Ward was full of people and full of life, but it was also filled with substandard housing and overcrowding. City reformers fretted over The Ward, and plans to tear down its houses were formed in the early 1900s. By the 1970s, little trace of the area remained.
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