Toronto Guide
Toronto
Kensington Market
Next door to Chinatown, just north of Dundas Street W between Spadina and Augusta, lies Toronto's most ethnically diverse neighbourhood, pocket-sized Kensington Market. It was here, at the beginning of the twentieth century, that Eastern European immigrants squeezed into a patchwork of modest little brick and timber houses that survive to this day. On Kensington Avenue they established a lively open-air street market and this has been the main feature of the neighbourhood ever since. The lower half of the market, just off Dundas Street, concentrates on secondhand clothes, while the upper half is crowded with fresh-food stalls.