Mustapha
Senior Member
Mustapha, have you seen this?
http://www.toronto.ca/archives/pdf/chinese_eng_web.pdf
No I haven't but I have now; thank you very much Anna. It's a well put together writeup with some great images - it sums up the community's history well in 8 succinct pages. Hard to believe most of that area is now occupied by New City Hall/Nathan Philips Square. I only dimly remember it; but do remember visiting my dad when he worked at International Chop Suey House. It's nice to see that image again.
"Chinese" means so many things nowadays - it's a catchall term - it used to mean people from China of course, but today many "Chinese" may feel little affinity for their origins, and may in fact not speak a word of any kind of Chinese.