Canadian Ethnic Landscape

study in Toronto” shows how the landscape on St Clair Avenue West in Toronto has

been altered before and after World War II. The paper makes it clear that before this war,

the majority of Torontonians were of British origin. This paper points out that over 75%

of Toronto residents were of British decent in 1941. Bruzzelli mentions that during this time as well as in 1951, the British people, along with the Jewish people pretty much ran all the business along St Clair Avenue West (Bruzzelli, 2001). The urban landscape that was dominate by the British on St Clair Avenue was a Georgian style, which is “an Anglo-Dutch simplification of Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture.” (Buzzelli, 2001, 576). The author pointed out that prior to the war, the St Clair Avenue area as well as the nearby Earlscourt neighbourhood, where working British immigrants lived was called Little Britian.

The author makes it clear that after the war, when the immigration restrictions were relaxed, a great number of Italians immigrated to Toronto. Many Italians settled in the St Clair Avenue West area in Toronto. Bruzzelli mentions that the Ita

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Approximate Word count = 1150
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)