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Downtown East End
Downtown East March to STOP FORD'S CUTS
Submitted by ocap on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 19:36.
Thursday, August 25 · 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Allan Gardens
Sherbourne & Carlton
Join us for a free community meal, followed by a lively tour of Rob
Ford's proposed path of destruction in the Downtown East!
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Rob Ford’s cuts would devastate our community. Daycares, community
centres, public housing, libraries, parks, and shelters for the
homeless - this and more is at risk! Join fellow community members and
workers as we gather to march through our neighbourhood, stopping at
public services to celebrate what is ours and send a clear message to
the Mayor and his friends on Bay Street that our community will come
together to Stop the Cuts!!
Join the Downtown East Stop the Cuts Committee: TorontoDTE@gmail.com
STOP THE CUTS!
http://torontostopthecuts.com
http://www.facebook.com/stopthecuts
Next Wednesday: Historical Walk of Downtown East End
Submitted by ocap on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 17:38.With anti-poverty activist Gaetan Heroux
Wednesday April 28, 2010
6pm to 8pm
Meet in front of 51 Division (South East Corner of Parliament and Front Streets)
Relief and Resistance: A Poor People's History of East Downtown Toronto
Submitted by ocap on Tue, 10/30/2007 - 23:10.
Presented by Gaetan Heroux, Member of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
Photos by John Bonnar
Thursday November 22
7:00pm
at the Brunswick Theatre - 296 Brunswick Ave 2nd Floor
$5 or Pay What You Can.
In the 19th century East Downtown Toronto was home to several poor houses and by the turn of the century the slums of Cabbagetown housed thousands of factory workers who were employed by rich industrialists.
Walking Tour: A History of Skid Row and theWorking Poor in East Downtown Toronto
Submitted by ocap on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 15:42.
First walking tour: Saturday May 26 at 1pm
Second walking tour: Sunday May 27 at 6pm
On May 26 and May 27 the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty will be holding a waking tour in East Downtown Toronto to raise money for the June 18 and 19 camp out at Nathan Phillip Square. We are camping out to protest the closure of three hundred hostel beds in the downtown core.
The emergence of a working class and a large homeless population coincided with the industrialization of the city in the 1850’s. Come and walk with Gaetan Heroux and Tim Groves in East Downtown Toronto one of Toronto’s oldest neighbourhoods. Find out about Toronto’s poor houses and the slums of Cabbagetown. Find out about how a wealthy church at Dundas and Sherbourne became a church of the poor in the heart of Toronto’s skid row.
