Cabbagetown

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This essay is an overview of how the Toronto neighbourhood of Cabbagetown has transformed over the years as seen through the eyes of writers. According to this essay, Cabbagetown has morphed, getting larger here or smaller there, depending upon any given definition. And while there has been improvement on some fronts, there have also been the social experiments gone awry in Regent Park and St. Jamestown.

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"Back in the sixties and seventies, Toronto author Hugh Garner, a Governor General's Award winner, took Cabbagetown's border debate international with a series of literary looks at the community. In doing so, he documented phases of the community's profile complete with glimpses of how it started and what it had become, giving a history of shifts in the community as character. And, although 26 years dead, Garner managed to not only document his here-and-now, but forecast the area's slow gentrification efforts that continue revolving around what may very well be the city's longest running border dispute (Smith 21)."

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