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  • Tags: 1970s

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Former City Hall for the City of Toronto, converted into municipal courthouse after the new City Hall opened in 1965.

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Famous for Fine West Indian Foods.

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One of the oldest barbershops catering to the Black community in Toronto.

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Sam the Record Man was a Canadian record store chain that was Canada's largest music recording retailer.

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”One of the first and the most influential newspapers in the Black Toronto community. Many prominient Caribbean-Canadian writers got their start here. ”

”The church remained at this location until 1929 when the property was sold and a larger church was purchased at 23 Soho Street.”

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”one of the largest public high schools in Toronto provided education for first and second generation new Canadians in the Annex community.”

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”The bakery fed the community since the late 1970's and originally sold bakery products including patties/ hardo bread/ Jamaican bun and coco bread.”

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”a shopping mall and office complex in the middle of downtown Toronto.”

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"The occasional signs of the new black population along Bathurst St. stand out. This store is on Bloor St. near Bathurst: there are also beauty parlors and book stores that obviously cater to blacks; but the community does not open to the street as…
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