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  1. Bain Avenue controversy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    Rent freeze organizers state their case.
  2. Bain Avenue controversy - Ulli Diemer replies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    There is no dispute about the importance and validity of economic demands, whether in the workplace or in the community. What is under dispute is Wages for Housework's insistence that money is the only thing around which it is permissible to organize.
  3. Bain Co-op
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Built as a low-income housing project in 1913, Bain became a co-operative in 1977.
  4. Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
    A political thriller
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect.
  5. Bleeker Street
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1977
    Documentary of the efforts of the residents of Bleeker St. to save their homes.
  6. Cabbagetown: A Working Class District
    Hugh Garner's novel revisited
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
  7. The Canada Metals story: A chronology
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1980
    The ongoing struggle against lead pollution in South Riverdale.
  8. Cherry Beach
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Cherry Beach, originally called Clarke Beach Park, was established as a recreational beach in the 1930s. Established close to the mouth of the Don River, Cherry Beach was very close to what was then a heavily industrial area.
  9. A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  10. Class Bias in Toronto Schools
    Downtown Kids Aren't Dumb: They Need A Better Program
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    A brief by the Park School community council addressing the streaming of poor and working class children into the bottom levels of the school system. These children, the brief says, have badly developed basic skills, particularly in reading and writing. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall/Winter 1971.
  11. Don Mount (Napier Place)
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Located just east of the Don River in Riverdale, the area bordered by Queen, Broadview and Dundas Street as well as the Don Valley Parkway.
  12. Don Vale ("Old Cabbagetown")
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Don Vale, or "Old Cabbagetown" as it now usually called, is a small neighbourhood on the west bank of the Don Valley. Roughly bordered by Parliament and Gerrard Streets as well as St. James Cemetery, the Toronto Necropolis Cemetery, and Riverdale Park.
  13. Don Weitz in conversation with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Activist Don Weitz interviewed by Ulli Diemer, December 8, 2016.
  14. Fighting Back
    Urban Renewal in Trefann Court
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A detailed report on the conflict between city bureaucrats and residents of Trefann Court, a five-block area just east of downtown Toronto. Bent on tearing down as a step towards urban renewal, the planners and government officials met organized resistance by homeowners, landlords and tenants for over six years.
  15. Free Bleecker
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1974
    A documentary on the "redevelopment" of the South St. Jamestown neighbourhood in Toronto.
  16. How We Changed Toronto
    The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.
  17. Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
  18. The Real World of City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A report about what is going on -- and what is going wrong -- in Canada's cities. Urban reneewal, public housing, downtown schools, citizen participation, highrise development, city politicians.
  19. Regent Park
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    One of the oldest public housing projects in Canada. Approved in the mid-1940s and finally completed by 1960, Regent Park consisted of high- and low-rise, subsidized apartment buildings in the area of Toronto bordered by Gerrard, River, Shuter and Parliament Streets. The area is now being rebuilt with mixed-income housing.
  20. Riverdale
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Consisting of a the area east of the Don Valley and bordered by the Danforth, Greenwood Avenue and Lake Ontario, Riverdale was annexed into Toronto in 1884.
  21. Riverdale Community Organization
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    The RCO emerged out of discontent at the city,’s handling of the housing expropriation in the Don Mount renewal zone. In 1969, several religious figures from the area formed the East Don Urban Coalition to represent local interests and hired organizer Don Keating. After six months several smaller organizations that had formed around specific local issues united to form the Riverdale Community Organization.
  22. Riverdale Zoo/Riverdale Farm
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    A zoo which existed on the west bank of the Don River, at the east end of Winchester Street, from 1899 to 1975. the site subsequently became the location of Riverdale Farm.
  23. St. James Town
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Bounded by Wellesley, Howard, Sherbourne and Parliament Streets. Originally comprised of houses, the area was demolished in the 1960s and filled with highrise apartment buildings.
  24. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
    Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
  25. Seven News: Principles & Purposes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    Statement of principles of Seven News, a community newspaper.
  26. Seven News: The Story of a Community Newspaper
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984
    An essay about the Toronto community newspaper Seven News, written in 1984 by Lisa Horrocks, who was part of Seven News as a staff or board member for a number of years.
  27. Sewell, John
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Political activist and writer on municipal affairs. The mayor of Toronto, Canada from 1978 to 1980. (Born 1940).
  28. South of Carlton Community Action Committee (SOCCA)
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    The South of Carlton Community Action Committee was formed by a group of residents in the South of Carlton neighbourhood in 1970.
  29. South of St. James Town
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    The area just to the South of the St. James Town apartments, roughly bordered by Wellesley, Sherbourne, Carlton and Parliament Streets.
  30. Toronto Community Union Project (T-CUP) in Trefann Court
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    The Toronto Community Union Project (T-CUP) was a small group of community organizers who came together in 1966 to help working-class residents facing "urban redevelopment" in a neighbourhood called Trefann Court.
  31. Toronto's Historic Cemeteries
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    A overview of Toronto's early cemeteries.
  32. Toronto's Poor
    A Rebellious History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016   Published: 2916
    Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
  33. Trefann Court
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    A thin strip of land just south of Regent Park and bounded by Queen, Parliament, Shuter, and River Streets, Trefann Court was slated for “urban renewal” by the City of Toronto in 1966. Residents fought back and eventually managed to stop the redevelopment plan.
  34. Trefann Court Residents Associations
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    A thin strip of land just south of Regent Park and bounded by Queen, Parliament, Shuter, River Streets, Trefann Court was slated for 'urban renewal' by the city in 1966. Home to 1,300, mostly working class, residents, the area was characterized by old houses and a dwindling population. Faced with the demolition of their neighbourhood and inspired by earlier resistance by residents in the Don Mount on the other side of the Don River, residents organized against the project and refused to accept the city's plans.
  35. The Trouble With Co-ops
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    The story of a pioneer co-operative housing project in downtown Toronto: Down Area Co-operative Homes, inc. (DACHI).
  36. Up Against City Hall
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    John Sewell describes his early life and explains how he accidentally got involved in politics. He tells of his experiences in Trefann Court, and how this opened his eyes to the realities of civic politics, and gives behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the major battles at City Hall.
  37. Working People
    Life in a Downtown City Neighbourhood
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    A description of the Don Vale neighbourhood of downtown Toronto in the 1960s.
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