Slum house, ‘The Ward’, 1911. (21/96)
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I actually was looking at these photos this morning in the archives. My great great grandfather stayed at 71 Terauley Street (now Bay Street) for two years when he arrived from Ireland. It seems an Uncle was living there and he joined them for a bit upon arrival. I began noticing in the old directories though that in the uncles household his own kids never left. They were at the Terauley Street address for many years all together and then they seem to have divided into 80 Fuller Ave and 72 Bellswood. Out of 7 kids none ever married or had their own kids. I dug deep. Reading their deathcert it shows a few died from TB and the others pneumonia. So I was wondering if they all lived together forever as they were unwell from young ages and didnt marry then etc. A few did work so it wasnt a quarantine situation. Just found it odd to have a whole generation not marry or have kids at that time. I decided to dig at the addresses this morning and that area was smack center of the Ward. It makes sense they all had latent TB then. I didnt find 71 Terauley but did find a neighboring house and it looks like by 1910-1920 they had become absolute slums. The Irish etc moved on from there and the next immigrants moved into the totally delapitated houses. My great grandpa just stayed there and headed to Vancouver but the family he stayed with. The places still would have been rough in the 1880s when he was there. So much coal dust and dirt from the rail going right through there.
Recall some homes like this in Cabbagetown when I was little. I was always scared walking by. My nanny telling me to “hurry up” as we passed.
As an aside, can you imagine how much that would sell for now?
Was this in the US or Canada?
My mom described housing similar to this on Shuter Street
lived as a young child at 364 Shuter, corner of Regent St. in the 50s. My parents bought a row-house for very cheap. It was only a few steps up from some of these places. Rats were part of life.
They moved to Georgetown around 1957 where we could roam the fields and rivers all summer long. Best time of my life .
Cabbage town?
Cabbagetown was north of Gerrard and south of it.I remember when Regent was built they were nice back them built for working class families,reasonable rent.As for the North where I lived there were beautiful Victorian homes there at that time.Rightaway when people say Cabbagetown they assume it was a bad area,better to read up about it,at one time the lower part was a bad area in the early 1900’s,annoying painting everyone with the same brush,A lot of famous people came from Cabbagetown