Alexandra Park, Toronto

Alexandra Park, Toronto

Alexandra Park is a neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada consisting of private and public housing. The neighbourhood was founded in 1841 by Sir Casimir Gzowski, a Polish engineer who immigrated to Toronto in 1841. He also built the Grand Trunk Railway between Toronto and Sarnia, Ontario. The neighbourhood was inhabited by Polish and Ukrainian immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s. The public housing project was built in the 1960s. Demographically, the area now has many immigrants from the Caribbean, East Africa, China and Vietnam.

External links

* [http://www.torontoneighbourhoods.net/regions/toronto_downtown/16_overview.html Alexandra Park]


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