GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Distillery District
4 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Caulfield
• York u prof
• He said the city has inner and outer zones (after 1945)
• Toronto’s inner zone:
• The distillery
• Holy trinity church
• Regent park
• St. Jamestown (will not cover this one in this course)
The Distillery District
• Pre-Industrial Phase: Toronto was a service and trade centre (1830s-1861)
• Industrial Phase: manufacturing develops and society sorts itself by class (1870s-1950s)
• Post-Industrial Phase: manufacturing moves out of the city, globalization, gentrification
(1950s-present)
• Post office, banks, city services, schools, jails were offered here
• Gooderham and Worts (immigrants) established the district to process flour with a mill.
• 1880s: PM John A. Macdonald created the National Policy,
• National policy introduced heavy tariffs (on any imported item), built railway,
foster immigration to the west
Holy Trinity Church
• One of six Toronto churches built in the 1840s
• Eaton’s and the corporatization of the land around Trinity Church (1960s-1970s)
• Trinity Church area illustrates the transience (transition, only lasting for short time,
evolution) of city fabrics (through both cataclysmic and gradual changes)
• Cataclysmic change: very sudden
Urban Change
• Shifts in:
• 1) urban form
• Ex. the shape of the building, you knock down a low rise and build a high rise
• 2) Urban function
• The shape remains the same, but the use changes
• Ex. distillery district - buildings now are the same as those 80 years ago, but they
used to be used for manufacturing, now they are used in service section (cafes,
boutiques, galleries)
• 3) Urban meaning
• How people perceive different places across the city
• Ex. in 1920s people perceive the distillery as a place of work, now it is a place of
leisure and entertainment
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