[PHOTO] Three Dufferin Street churches
May. 10th, 2009 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThe major Toronto/York Region north/south axis of Dufferin Street has served me as a boundary marker for as long as I've lived here, separating West Queen Street West from Parkdale, dividing the westernmost extremities of the downtown from the easternmost extremities of western Toronto. As I noticed on a walk with Andrew almost exactly a month ago, Dufferin is a transition zone in itself, with--for instance--its church buildings demonstrating the various population-related transitions that Toronto has enjoyed over the past half-century or so, from a relatively monoethnic population to a multicultural one, from a relatively young demographic pyramid to a considerably older one.
Dufferin Street Baptist Church, located at 1219 Dufferin Street, apparently has a large Hispanic congregation and is also home to the Oasis Dufferin Community Centre, where--among other things--job training seminars are offered to its users.
St. Hilda's Towers, a combined Anglican Church and retirement home, is located at 2339 Dufferin Street in the midtown.
The British Methodist Episcopal Christ Church St. James shares its building with the Hispanophone/Lusophone Igreja Metodista Libre de Toronto at 1828 Eglinton Avenue West, at the intersections of Dufferin Street and Eglinton.
Dufferin Street Baptist Church, located at 1219 Dufferin Street, apparently has a large Hispanic congregation and is also home to the Oasis Dufferin Community Centre, where--among other things--job training seminars are offered to its users.
St. Hilda's Towers, a combined Anglican Church and retirement home, is located at 2339 Dufferin Street in the midtown.
The British Methodist Episcopal Christ Church St. James shares its building with the Hispanophone/Lusophone Igreja Metodista Libre de Toronto at 1828 Eglinton Avenue West, at the intersections of Dufferin Street and Eglinton.
