PROJECT SUSAN | A Scarborough Story [Short Documentary]

[@qtpwqt]

Grew up not far from here , the most under rated and misunderstood part of Toronto .

[@CheeseLoversUnited]

I grew up in a part of Scarborough where it was rarer to see a kid from a non-immigrant family than the other way around. Kingston and Cliffside...in some ways it was a quiet place, in others...I remember when I was in nursing school I got placed at a "high needs" elementary school in what I was assured was a "low socioeconomic neighborhood" where I could see and work against the social determinants of health we'd all just been educated on...imagine my surprise when this was the shortest commute to a placement NY entire nursing school career. In fact, this school was less than a five minute walk from my high school Talk about surreal. I now work as a nurse in children's crisis mental health, near the Jane and Finch area. Watching this brought up a lot of memories and feelings for me

[@AK-pz7om]

Man at 4:20 when he talks about being the man of the house at a young age and being aware of bills and other adult stuff...I feel you 😪. Kids should be able to be kids, it sucks that being in low income situations rob you of this. Then when he goes on to discuss his motivations of being a dad and giving his kids what he didn't. Love to you bro, I feel the same. God bless and I know your kids are blessed! Thanks for telling these stories!

[@mrandersona21]

Love from a former Malvern resident. I'm surprised I'm just seeing this

[@JohnUnit]

Glad this is out in the world now. Not quite the life I lived, but the life a ton of my friends did and it's not documented and talked about enough.

[@Mcchrs]

Live down the block @ .O.P... 79 to 9Os big up !

[@wilsonfisk4741]

Baby block​@@Mcchrs

[@wilsonfisk4741]

Grew up off a lawrence still here from around the "way" these are the hoods the guys dt and Westend guys talk about when they down play scarborough as a whole I'll say this tho went to school and briefly hung with a couple guys from over there solid guys too sone of the others for most part rats and wierdos

[@cronicGoD]

Shoutout to all the people living off Lawrence ave E

[@stephendrown3808]

This video was incredibly well made. 11k views but somehow less than 200 subscribers? Your channel will blow up soon. Keep up the great work

[@aliciaharris8983]

The opening lines "underrated, misunderstood, overlooked, misrepresented" - damn if that doesn't describe scarborough so well. i live at scarborough golf and lawrence and smile when I saw these familiar places, solaso!!! ❤ all the subjects were beautiful and i loved hearing their stories. not me crying when it was that art show at the end omg. beautiful doc.

[@connietong19]

Jordan, this is a wonderful short documentary. I see you mentioned Willow Park PS and it made me realize that the school is where I met Brandon, Timaj and even Mohammed in the film. Even though I lived on the other block at Orton Park, the struggle was real and this reminds me how far we have come growing up in this neighborhood.

[@war5ior]

Man this is so inspiring and we'll put together. Thanks for letting us into this world. Mad respect.

[@realaliciacinnamon]

big up yourself issaq! i love this!!!!!! the REAL susan towers

[@KadzyShorts]

I liked everything about this documentary, especially the cinematography. On how you Show the people and their stories.

[@robertodwyer2979]

I love what they did for the neighborhood I used to live at 3847 Lawrence apt 503 I remember rocky 4 pizza 🍕, the doughnut nook & Flintstones variety store

[@TheShanaise]

Such important stories that were told here. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@juanroberts5974]

Canada is a great country and Scarborough is an amazing place where people have come from other countries and were given the opportunity to have a life that they wouldn’t have in their home country.

[@wilsonfisk4741]

All while native americans/ canadians have no say on who enters and occupies this land smh white Anglo colonialists took it over and instead re paying for his foul deeds he brings immigrants over in droves of Desi Indians and south Asian in general sprinkled with a few west and east africans and carribeans and some how that's a good thing I mean carribean people do have native blood so do hispanics so technically this is there land as for the others makes no sense give the natives back there white man back to euroupe Indians to asia etc immigration along with the Canadian government in the new colonization

[@londresrico]

Classic, love the depiction of the neighbourhood. Good to know that its coming from the source.

[@evoyrobinson3774]

So proud, I am an original Susan man from the 80s , would love participate in future projects, I have lots of info if interested

[@auntiekim1585]

I used to hang out at 3847 back in the early 80's my friend lived there next door at Susan plaza where bedrock restaurant is it used to be Caribbean cook restaurant Jamaican food definitely a lot of drugs going in and out but at the same token the drug men used to look out for us young teenagers hanging around back than Different era

[@Mr.Derick]

This is great work, thank you!

[@jamilajohnson7460]

I love this, did not know this community until today. Mi want to go all a dem place now! Community is everything, representation is everything.

[@localcrisis]

born and grew up in scarborough...then lived in birmingham, uk for half a year, now i'm back in ontario living in mississauga. scarborough, though it can be unsafe in certain areas in certain times, it truly does have a special place in my heart...the sense of community and vibrant mix of cultures..it truly is a misunderstood, underrated place full of life and camoflauged potential

[@taskintarik5835]

This is a good vid, why is the view count so low? from scarborough

[@allhoneyqt]

Excellent Documentary!

[@KhanversationsOfficial]

Well done!!

[@Abloominglotus]

This really shows why representation and community stories matter ❤️✊🏾

[@ayaanwarsame-dirie965]

I’m so happy to see the real representation of our communities ♥️

[@horaceskyers1229]

Orton Park is Susan! 💯

[@itslordvantor]

3847 Apt 315 my home from roughly '77-80, rough times -- I sure relate to the guy saying as the oldest kid with no dad in the house and trying to help look after things but I was like 9 -- grade 2-5 at Willow Park. What pleases me most about this film is the positive sense of neighbourhood and community that seems to exist today. In my day it was a place to dream of escaping from, but now there are many positive aspects of living there. Love the mural, love the backyard festival/party, --- makes me actually want to go back and visit...

[@siobhanstevenson2476]

Terrific. I am going to screen this in my grad course on asset based community development. Thank you!!!

[@GPagez]

This is one half of the T.O. streets story! What about Rexdale, Etobicoke??

[@shersloan150]

Fabulous! I love this so much!

[@shadowkiller969]

Incredible Jordan!

[@HH-mc8lg]

Excellent documentary

[@warsanhagi-yusuf9500]

Amazing documentary!

[@BigB5Brayden]

Big up Willow Park, I remember Rocky 4 pizza, Donut knook, Flintsones, Ed Young Fish and Chips I love home

[@roythuroo8037]

lived here in the 80s love the life lessons this place gave me

[@zayepark]

Been around Scarborough back in the day and I see it to be keeping the arts culture alive it speaks in many different ways. Lotta immigrants and plenty representing their own .

[@arricammarques1955]

''Home is where the heart is''

[@tylerball7788]

Amazing!!

[@DejanOfRadic]

Great work

[@parlor23]

Grew up in OP - I remember going to house parties in Susan those were some good times

[@KT-OTM]

Wish I seen this 3 years ago but it was nice visuals

[@Sugarlvideo]

loved this

[@evalovely77]

💯🤜🏿🤛🏿👏🏿👍🏽👍🏾Amazing documentary!

[@NamedTobias]

Very Dope!

[@inmatejason]

The Scarborough of the past is gone and has been taken over by Indians. Its crazy how fast it was over run, its all you see now. Are country is suppose to be diversity and yet we seem to be just becoming Indian.

[@munnasport-sx2qe]

You're not lying Scarborough was filled with blacks

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

My sister in law teaches in Peel region and it's the same thing. It used to be a mix of everyone, now only one.

[@travellingyeti6333]

Would you say the same about the Susan area, back in the early 90s and 2000s and before then too? Hypocritical, watch the racism. Immigration happens all the time especially as times move on and new wars and poverty around the world compel people to move. Thats why people from certain countries immigrate more during certain time periods in history. First it was the Scottish and Irish, then Chinese and Korean, Caribbean and African, and now south asians. They saw Scarborough as a place they can call home, we'll accept them and move forward together uplifting each other taking advantage of each other's skills and what we bring to the table. This mindset of "indians taking over" isn't helping anybody when everyone just wants safety and to work in the community.

[@kevmack101]

Big ups from the Rex we all one city

[@AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada]

there weren't one mirror in the building I lived in but for in my unit.

[@BXLLIONAIREMASTERMIND]

Good work

[@Nujjj]

Good stuff

[@realaliciacinnamon]

awww solaso

[@WioKnight]

Most Blessed region in The GTA.

[@patrontys]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@DATDUDEDUCK416]

🔥🔥🔥

[@TinoSousa-ih6dr]

West end to the end

[@extraclip]

Big man fax

[@ameerlol7111]

i see my home

[@clearlynotwoke4929]

Scarborough 30 years ago was a safe white working class community with little crime. What happened?

[@munnasport-sx2qe]

You just don't know because you're not going around and seeing other places that's why you don't know about Scarborough like that just your people or where you're from Scarborough was always like that

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

30 years ago was 94. My wife's grandad lived their since the 50s and in 94 his neighbour's were basian, jamaican, Guyanese, Polish, they all got a long great.

[@barbydolly7645]

No, it wasn’t.

[@mikemurphy8996]

I just sold my house in that area for 995K. On one of the side streets by Markham / Bellamy and Lawrence. It ain’t the hood no more.

[@Assistedsoul]

I lived on Susan lol

[@orfchannel8685]

why are ungrateful, lazy criminals considered 'misunderstood' these days lol? my immigrant great grandparents came to canada after a famine in their country, cleared raw forest land by hand and built a house on their own.... yall move right to welfare housing and call it a struggle!!!!! my great grand daddy would be pissin in his pants loool

[@905Gang]

Keep hiding behind a screen, if u think ur white European immigrants had the same opportunity as a darker colored immigrant u are insane, I don’t expect u to relate bc you are not a minority anyways

[@patmcadam3744]

Scarborough soft no cappp 1 murder a year that’s why I always liked Scarborough it’s easy to live there

[@hhgangfrmvern9882]

😂😂😂😂 Fuck dis dess block

[@whogotshot]

Malverns k

[@atriskyouthtv]

Great vid man

[@munnasport-sx2qe]

I'm from the west but the East is popping to