What I Miss About Toronto In 60's

[lenaitch]

On my recent trips to Shanghai and Seoul, I noted how single ethnic/monocultural those cities seemed. Having never lived in a single culture city (1970s Meadowvale, Mississauga was close), I wonder what life was like in 1960s Toronto before multiculturalism. Sure, we had a mix of Europeans, but I imagine dinner out at Ed's Warehouse on King St. was considered exotic.

I grew up in Willowdale in the 1950s. Our street had one Japanese family, everything else was totally white bread. The catchment area of my high school included a predominantly Jewish area but that was the extent of the ethnicity of my youth. If one of the kids had parents with a European (non-UK) accent, it was noticeable.

 

[44 North]

Feel like Geddy Lee is a good synopsis of what you describe. Willowdale, sixties, kid named Gary gets poked fun of because the way his non-UK Euro parents pronounce his name.