Cabbagetown Preservation Association

Celebrating Heritage: People, Places & Streetscapes

INFORMATION &
UPCOMING EVENTS 2024
  • Join us for our Fall 2024 Public meeting on November 28, 7:00 pm, at the Meeting House on the Riverdale Farm grounds. Our main speaker will be Bracha Stettin, holder of our 2024 Student Experience Program. She will be talking about her document Trees & Time: Connecting to the ecological history of Cabbagetown that was published in the summer of 2024. We will also announce the winner of the CPA 2024 Recognition Award.
  • Check out our Fall 2024 Newsletter. You'll find it HERE!
RESOURCES
  • A new publication out of our 2024 Student Experience Programme! Interested in the history of trees in Cabbagetown? Check out Bracha Stettin's Trees & Time: Connecting to the ecological history of Cabbagetown.
  • Bill C-23 passes to much criticism. Here's the link to an article from the STAR. This has nothing to do with creating affordable housing. Heritage groups across the provinces have been responding.
  • The Toronto History Weekly is a new newsletter by Adam Bunch which summarizes what's going on in the local history scene. It's a useful place to check for events and talks, as well as curiosities. Have a look -- it's free for the first few issues.
  • The history of your home: to go a bit further than the Cabbagetown Property Search on the Cabbagetown HCD Committee website, check out the TOBuilt Database, which now has 12,500+ entries! An open source database of images and information about buildings & structures in Toronto. A project of the Architectural Conservancy Ontario.
  • City of Toronto Heritage Register.
  • Check out the various News and Reports from Heritage Toronto. 
  • Search the City of Toronto Application Information Centre for all active Community Planning, Committee of Adjustment, and Toronto Local Appeal Body (TLAB) applications in Toronto.
  • Heritage Toronto's State of Heritage Report.

 

The CPA celebrates our heritage while looking to the future; encouraging preservation of this 19th century community for 21st century living.

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 WHERE IS CABBAGETOWN?

Today, the boundaries are generally considered to be Bloor Street/St. James Cemetery on the north to Dundas Street (or Shuter for some) on the south, and from The Don River on the east to Sherbourne Street on the west, excluding St. Jamestown and Regent Park.