Toronto Neighbourhoods Church & Wellesley
Toronto Neighbourhoods Church & Wellesley
Slavens & Associates Real Estate Inc., Brokerage 435 Eglinton Avenue West Toronto, Ontario M5N 1A4 Off. 416.483.4337 Fax. 416.483.1663 www.SlavensRealEstate.com
AREA SCHOOLS Elementary Schools Church Street Jr. School 83 Alexander St 416-393-1250 [email protected] Our Lady of Lourdes School 444 Sherbourne St 416-393-5221 Rose Avenue Jr. School 675 Ontario St 416-393-1260 [email protected]
Secondary Schools Msgr Fraser College School 146 Isabella St 416-393-5533 Jarvis Collegiate Institute 495 Jarvis St 416-393-0140 [email protected] http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/jarvisci/ St Joseph College 74 Wellesley St W 416-393-5514
Winchester Jr. & Sr. School 15 Prospect St 416-393-1270 [email protected]
College Francais 100 Rue Carlton 416-393-0175 [email protected]
Jesse Ketchum Jr. & Sr. School 61 Davenport Rd 416-393-1530 [email protected]
Hodgson Sr School 282 Davisville Ave 416-393-0390
St Michael Choir School 67 Bond St 416-393-5518 Orde Street Jr. School 18 Orde St 416-393-1900 [email protected] http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/ordestreet/ Ecole Publique Gabrielle-Roy 14 Rue Pembroke 416-393-1360 [email protected]
Quest Alternative School 25 Bain Ave 416-393-9430 [email protected] http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/quest/ St Michael Choir School 67 Bond St 416-393-5518 Eastdale Collegiate Institute 701 Gerrard St E 416-393-9630 [email protected] http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/eastdaleci
OVERVIEW Avg. Household Income: $82,571.00 Provincial Average: $66,836.00
Percent of Immigrants: Provincial Average:
42.90% 26.85%
Average Number of Kids: .9 Provincial Average: 1.2
Percent of Low Income: Provincial Average:
32.00% 14.40%
Average Home Price: $268,822.00 Average # of Bedrooms: 1 Common House Style: Apartment
Average Property Taxes: $1,940.00 Common Housing Type: Condo Apt
Housing Home Ownership: Rented Period of Construction: Before 1946, 1961-1980
People Population Age: Marital Status:
Work Life Mode of Transportation: Occupation:
30-39 Single
Public Transit; Walk; Car Sales & Service; Business, Finance & Administration; Management
Source: Demographic information comes from data in the 2000 Canadian Census. Demographic information for this neighbourhood is based on data for the Toronto Centre Toronto-Centre Federal Electoral District. Neighbourhood boundaries may differ from those of Federal Electoral Districts
% of Homes by Housing Type - Chruch & Wellesley
% of Homes by House Style - Chruch & Wellesley
7% 0%
5.8% 3 Storey
67.8%
Apartment 62%
23%
6.3%
2-Storey
Condo Apt Co-op Apt Att/Row/Twnhouse Other
2 1/2 Storey
Condo Townhouse
Other
20.1%
8%
% of Homes by Number of Bedrooms - Church & Wellesley
% of Homes by Price Sold - Church & Wellesley 45 40 35
50 40
30 25 20 15 10 5 0
30 20 10 Under $250K
$250K$350K
$350K$500K
$500K$750K
$750K-1M Over 1M
0
1 Br
2 Br
3 Br
4 Br
5+ Br
*Source: Toronto Real Estate Board
NEIGHBOURHOOD DESCRIPTION Church and Wellesley is an gay, lesbian oriented community located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is roughly bounded by Gould Street to the south, Yonge Street to the west, Charles Street to the north, and Jarvis Street to the east, with the intersection of Church and Wellesley Streets at the centre of this area. The boundaries are not fixed, as some gay and lesbian oriented establishments can be found outside of this area. Church and Wellesley is home to the annual Pride Week celebrations, the largest event of its kind in Canada with over 90 floats and an enthusiastic crowd of nearly 800,000 people. The Pride Parade is always on the last weekend in June. It runs southward along Yonge Street. The Dyke March is a woman-only parade that runs on Saturday afternoon and has a smaller parade route. There is also a weekend-long community fair that closes off Wellesley between Yonge and Church and also goes into Church Street. The community fair includes tables from a wide variety of groups involved in or associated with queer culture. The 519 Church Street Community Centre is the meeting place for numerous social and political groups and became well known as a LGBT-friendly space. “The 519” as it is most often called, is a City of Toronto-run recreation centre that has been adopted locally as the Queer Community Centre, though its programming is not exclusive to LGBT groups and organizations. It is currently under renovation including expansion of the building (now complete) and upgrades to the existing spaces. The facility will remain open during the upgrades, which are scheduled for completion sometime in 2007. While the neighbourhood is home to the community centre, parks, bars, restaurants, and stores catering to the LGBT community (particularly along Church Street), it is also a historic community with Victorian houses and apartments dating back to the late 19th and early 20th century. Many LGBT people also live in the nearby residential neighbourhoods of The Annex, Cabbagetown, St. James Town and Riverdale, and in smaller numbers throughout the city and its suburbs. Church and Wellesley is also home to the AIDS Memorial, located in Cawthra Park, where the names of members of the community who have been lost to AIDS are etched into bronze plaques. A memorial candlelight vigil is held each year at the AIDS Memorial, during Pride Week. “The Steps”, in front of the Second Cup coffee shop on the south-west corner of Church and Wellesley, was an infamous communal stoop. It had often been packed with people chatting, flirting, and drinking coffee. Indeed, the Steps were parodied by The Kids in the Hall, who themselves were from Toronto and had an openly gay member, Scott Thompson. The Steps’ significance as a social gathering spot diminished in the early 2000s, in part because the business association of the neighbouring Yonge Street commercial strip hired private security to patrol its streets. Some homeless youth and street kids migrated from Yonge Street to nearby Church Street as a result. Some people saw these youth as ‘undesirable’. Some older gays felt threatened by incidents of aggressive panhandling and insults. The upwardly mobile gay clientele began to move on when they found the relocated street culture incompatible with their own. This migration caused a backlash from Church Street business owners who threatened to remove the Steps and other loitering areas altogether. In April 2004, the property owner expanded the retail space of the shops to the street front, due to the backlash mentioned above. However, this created further controversy, as the expansion meant that the shops in that building were no longer wheelchair-accessible. (They had previously been accessible because the street’s gradual slope meant that the northernmost end of the Steps was in fact a ground-level ramp. In 2005, however, a new wheelchair ramp was added at the front of the building
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Slavens & Associates Real Estate Inc., Brokerage 435 Eglinton Avenue West Toronto, Ontario M5N 1A4 Off. 416.483.4337 Fax. 416.483.1663 www.SlavensRealEstate.com
AREA SCHOOLS Elementary Schools Church Street Jr. School 83 Alexander St 416-393-1250 [email protected] Our Lady of Lourdes School 444 Sherbourne St 416-393-5221 Rose Avenue Jr. School 675 Ontario St 416-393-1260 [email protected]
Secondary Schools Msgr Fraser College School 146 Isabella St 416-393-5533 Jarvis Collegiate Institute 495 Jarvis St 416-393-0140 [email protected] http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/jarvisci/ St Joseph College 74 Wellesley St W 416-393-5514
Winchester Jr. & Sr. School 15 Prospect St 416-393-1270 [email protected]
College Francais 100 Rue Carlton 416-393-0175 [email protected]
Jesse Ketchum Jr. & Sr. School 61 Davenport Rd 416-393-1530 [email protected]
Hodgson Sr School 282 Davisville Ave 416-393-0390
St Michael Choir School 67 Bond St 416-393-5518 Orde Street Jr. School 18 Orde St 416-393-1900 [email protected] http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/ordestreet/ Ecole Publique Gabrielle-Roy 14 Rue Pembroke 416-393-1360 [email protected]
Quest Alternative School 25 Bain Ave 416-393-9430 [email protected] http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/quest/ St Michael Choir School 67 Bond St 416-393-5518 Eastdale Collegiate Institute 701 Gerrard St E 416-393-9630 [email protected] http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/eastdaleci
OVERVIEW Avg. Household Income: $82,571.00 Provincial Average: $66,836.00
Percent of Immigrants: Provincial Average:
42.90% 26.85%
Average Number of Kids: .9 Provincial Average: 1.2
Percent of Low Income: Provincial Average:
32.00% 14.40%
Average Home Price: $268,822.00 Average # of Bedrooms: 1 Common House Style: Apartment
Average Property Taxes: $1,940.00 Common Housing Type: Condo Apt
Housing Home Ownership: Rented Period of Construction: Before 1946, 1961-1980
People Population Age: Marital Status:
Work Life Mode of Transportation: Occupation:
30-39 Single
Public Transit; Walk; Car Sales & Service; Business, Finance & Administration; Management
Source: Demographic information comes from data in the 2000 Canadian Census. Demographic information for this neighbourhood is based on data for the Toronto Centre Toronto-Centre Federal Electoral District. Neighbourhood boundaries may differ from those of Federal Electoral Districts
% of Homes by Housing Type - Chruch & Wellesley
% of Homes by House Style - Chruch & Wellesley
7% 0%
5.8% 3 Storey
67.8%
Apartment 62%
23%
6.3%
2-Storey
Condo Apt Co-op Apt Att/Row/Twnhouse Other
2 1/2 Storey
Condo Townhouse
Other
20.1%
8%
% of Homes by Number of Bedrooms - Church & Wellesley
% of Homes by Price Sold - Church & Wellesley 45 40 35
50 40
30 25 20 15 10 5 0
30 20 10 Under $250K
$250K$350K
$350K$500K
$500K$750K
$750K-1M Over 1M
0
1 Br
2 Br
3 Br
4 Br
5+ Br
*Source: Toronto Real Estate Board
NEIGHBOURHOOD DESCRIPTION Church and Wellesley is an gay, lesbian oriented community located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is roughly bounded by Gould Street to the south, Yonge Street to the west, Charles Street to the north, and Jarvis Street to the east, with the intersection of Church and Wellesley Streets at the centre of this area. The boundaries are not fixed, as some gay and lesbian oriented establishments can be found outside of this area. Church and Wellesley is home to the annual Pride Week celebrations, the largest event of its kind in Canada with over 90 floats and an enthusiastic crowd of nearly 800,000 people. The Pride Parade is always on the last weekend in June. It runs southward along Yonge Street. The Dyke March is a woman-only parade that runs on Saturday afternoon and has a smaller parade route. There is also a weekend-long community fair that closes off Wellesley between Yonge and Church and also goes into Church Street. The community fair includes tables from a wide variety of groups involved in or associated with queer culture. The 519 Church Street Community Centre is the meeting place for numerous social and political groups and became well known as a LGBT-friendly space. “The 519” as it is most often called, is a City of Toronto-run recreation centre that has been adopted locally as the Queer Community Centre, though its programming is not exclusive to LGBT groups and organizations. It is currently under renovation including expansion of the building (now complete) and upgrades to the existing spaces. The facility will remain open during the upgrades, which are scheduled for completion sometime in 2007. While the neighbourhood is home to the community centre, parks, bars, restaurants, and stores catering to the LGBT community (particularly along Church Street), it is also a historic community with Victorian houses and apartments dating back to the late 19th and early 20th century. Many LGBT people also live in the nearby residential neighbourhoods of The Annex, Cabbagetown, St. James Town and Riverdale, and in smaller numbers throughout the city and its suburbs. Church and Wellesley is also home to the AIDS Memorial, located in Cawthra Park, where the names of members of the community who have been lost to AIDS are etched into bronze plaques. A memorial candlelight vigil is held each year at the AIDS Memorial, during Pride Week. “The Steps”, in front of the Second Cup coffee shop on the south-west corner of Church and Wellesley, was an infamous communal stoop. It had often been packed with people chatting, flirting, and drinking coffee. Indeed, the Steps were parodied by The Kids in the Hall, who themselves were from Toronto and had an openly gay member, Scott Thompson. The Steps’ significance as a social gathering spot diminished in the early 2000s, in part because the business association of the neighbouring Yonge Street commercial strip hired private security to patrol its streets. Some homeless youth and street kids migrated from Yonge Street to nearby Church Street as a result. Some people saw these youth as ‘undesirable’. Some older gays felt threatened by incidents of aggressive panhandling and insults. The upwardly mobile gay clientele began to move on when they found the relocated street culture incompatible with their own. This migration caused a backlash from Church Street business owners who threatened to remove the Steps and other loitering areas altogether. In April 2004, the property owner expanded the retail space of the shops to the street front, due to the backlash mentioned above. However, this created further controversy, as the expansion meant that the shops in that building were no longer wheelchair-accessible. (They had previously been accessible because the street’s gradual slope meant that the northernmost end of the Steps was in fact a ground-level ramp. In 2005, however, a new wheelchair ramp was added at the front of the building
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer). Copyrights: Wikipedia information about Church and Wellesley. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article “Church and Wellesley”.
