The History of Parkdale

[@lucasb409]

What a damn shame of the effects the gardiner has done to Parkdale. I am so happy to see your video on the history of this. So cool you sources all these old photos and videos too! Great production.. you deserve much more views! Subbed!

[@jzanolla7419]

Really enjoy the series.......I lived in many of the different areas yov"ve covered , Cabbage town ....The Annex.....Parkdale....Eglinton Village...Yorkville....First time in a long time feeling sentimental about "Toronto the Good". Thanks Morgan for your appreciated effort.

[@OldTorontoSeries]

Thank you for the kind words!!

[@imannonymous7707]

I concurr , i enjoy this channel very much

[@harris473]

Oh yeah spent the first 15 years of my life here. Elementary, middle and highschool. I will always call Parkdale home. ❤️

[@arricammarques1955]

Gladstone Ave near St. Veronica. : )

[@atrafana]

Thank you for this! Parkdale is my favourite neighborhood in TO.

[@crsh2007]

I used to live on Tyndall Ave (my parents still live there). Had so many great memories growing up there. My friends and I used to ride our bikes over the Gardiner to Lakeshore :) Times were so much simpler back then!

[@Aisha2178]

Omg my parents lived there too in the seventies when they first immigrated to Toronto

[@hellboundrubber4448]

I lived on Thorburn Ave. South toward Springhurst. The best was loitering the Ex after it closed. We would bike, skateboard, or go kite flying all over the CNE grounds. Today there's no McDonalds, there's no shortcuts, no Bars, Restaurants, shops, pool halls, clubs, parks, trees, bugs, squirrels, and butterflies. People today missed out on life.

[@CHICOandtheVAN]

@@hellboundrubber4448 we might have skateboarded...did you ever skate the Duke banks(school) in Beaches area?

[@blank_3958]

This was the first place I lived in upon immigrating to Canada in 1985. It was run down and very dangerous. Drugs were a HUGE problem in the neighbourhood back then. I still remember discovering that Parkdale was at one point an affluent area and couldn’t understand how it so quickly fell off. Nice video!

[@marion8156]

I lived there in the 80’s when I worked at Massey ferguson. Me and my good pal used to frequent the edge water hotel for some beers, live bands, dollar dinners in the basement and good dope before it was legalized. Good times.

[@zoranvuk1231]

Luv parkdale...grew up there

[@CHICOandtheVAN]

same

[@JohnDoe12515]

Love the old footage! Great channel

[@OldTorontoSeries]

Thanks!

[@HarryHood96]

Thanks for this. Parkdale is a great neighbourhood, warts and all.

[@OldTorontoSeries]

Thanks! Make sure to subscribe!

[@Matt-uh4wd]

Nice work man. Appreciate the content. Keep it up!

[@OldTorontoSeries]

Thanks Matt!

[@E2MC2]

Love this series. Thanks so much.

[@kevinn1158]

Great video. Parkdale is a perfect example of a great area that was destroyed by city planners and councillors who just had socio political ideas but had zero comprehension as to the impact of their actions. Wipe out the connection to the lake by building the expressway. Allow too many apartment buildings to be built, then slap rent controls on them. (This attracts bad property owners who know they will never get the return on any investment so they just let the buildings fall apart) Build too many public housing developments and then not pay attention to who's living in these properties. (Cue the gangs.) Buy big mansions and turn them into half way houses for drug addicts or mental patients. The city planners did this. Parkdale, even with the massive influx of money into the city, is still struggling.

[@jeffdj1975]

Great video!!! Thank you.

[@OldTorontoSeries]

Thank you!

[@paulsaul2487]

Great video I wish it was longer.!!

[@barbaranneboyer7997]

ah darn l was hoping for more older pics. My parents moved us east to the Beaches in 1960/61. Me and my sister really missed the CNE all year round it was our playground..we lived on Dunn Ave south of Kingand went to Holy Family school thank you so much

[@RoneyThomas]

Thanks for this. Parkdale for life.

[@OldTorontoSeries]

Great area!

[@animatejackman9685]

use to live here.i miss it

[@CHICOandtheVAN]

I miss Parkdale. I lived in the only house behind the 7-11 on queen and close ave in the 80's

[@wandaarnt234]

Thank you

[@OldTorontoSeries]

Thanks for watching Wanda!

[@imannonymous7707]

My great grandfather was irish right off the boat. He was a beat cop in the heart of parkdale in the 20s and 30s 14 division .A big scrappy irish man who knew how to throw his weight around and a low tolerance for disobedience. The transformation of the neighborhood was a bitter pill to swallow. To live in parkdale today is still very much a community of itself tho. And thats rare in these times

[@charlottehale899]

My great grandfather owned the Parkdale Hotel from 1930 - 1950. Mathias McDonald. I am writing about it and would be interested in connecting if you have stories to share.

[@Carlosdagama8]

Awesome stuff. Good work. :)

[@OldTorontoSeries]

Thanks! Make sure to subscribe!

[@SuperCat492]

Good one. Thanks!

[@OldTorontoSeries]

Thanks!

[@lawrencelewis2592]

You can always find free mattresses on the curb on Jameson south of King. So there's that.

[@OldTorontoSeries]

You're not wrong

[@glynnbroughton9654]

I'm a new superintendent on jameson. That's so bang on lmao

[@lawrencelewis2592]

@@glynnbroughton9654 There's a good selection every week- bargains galore!

[@mikekenyon8483]

I lived there ftom 1994 to 2002 and 2005 to 08. It had a rough reputation that was worse than it's bite. It was close to downtown where i worjed but relatively cheap. It was a lot of people like me and new immigrants and the down and out crowd. But it worked. I lived walking to Sunnyside in the summer. I have mostly good memories of Parkdale.

[@MOJO-xi3wf]

Wow. Things don't change. My friend was murdered there about 25 years ago.

[@johnnunes2993]

As a kid back in the the 80's, Parkdale wasn't that bad. We used to ride our bikes through there on our way to High Park with no problems at all.

[@lassepeterson2740]

Underutilised 0:30 does that mean they were just growing food ?

[@MOJO-xi3wf]

Yep. I know

[@James-nv1wf]

The turning light at Jameson turning on to Queen is just ridiculously stupid for vehicles.

[@marlenemacdonald]

I'm in junction right beside it

[@theshawnmurphyjournal2946]

Does Parkdale start at Ossington and Queen ?

[@OldTorontoSeries]

Queen and Dufferin.

[@dixonpinfold2582]

Not officially of course. Unofficially, yes. Many would argue that in terms of atmosphere and other intangibles it begins around Strachan. (At least it did before Liberty Village happened.)

[@RichardHartl]

Do Earlscourt next, my neighbourhood

[@jimtimmins1119]

There are wart$?

[@gulfy09]

They truley screwed up as the years went on..

[@arricammarques1955]

Gentrification, bloody condos.

[@dixonpinfold2582]

@@arricammarques1955 Sure, because neighbourhoods are cooler with violence and abject poverty, shabbiness and dirt, tons of drugs and prostitution, and human wreckage everywhere. Yep, clean, dry, warm, non-bug-infested places to live aren't what we want.

[@feldmarschallvonbraunschwe4463]

What sucks now is that parkdale has really gone downhill After the gardiner went up the hills that were there used have houses and you could run to the lake after the gardiner was put in it killed the land value palais royal got less popular and then public housing went in killing the area rip parkdale

[@rickdacosta9727]

The area with those low rise buildings is still known as the slum of the city. Meth and crack heads are everywhere in Toronto but that section of Queen is "special".

[@hasibchowdhury1742]

I used to live there in the early 2000s and attended queen vic public school for 3 years. I remember the buildings were pretty bad back then, not sure if it's the same now.

[@hellboundrubber4448]

In 2 more years Toronto will be non existent. I hate Condos, they eradicated everything that was Toronto. It's pathetic. People don't know what they've missed. I cherish i lived what was left. The Future is a Socialess Society.

[@dixonpinfold2582]

This point of view, though arguable and having its obvious limitations, is impossible to entirely refute. Many would flatly agree with it.