The Junction and the Junction Triangle as Toronto’s Back of the Yards community.

[st_dropcap type=’light_circled’]        Back of the Tracks, a Junction defining characteristic.[/st_dropcap] [st_box title=”.” type=”success”]Often I have wondered about the simlarilty of Chicago’s Back of the Yards Commnity and The Junction and the Junction Triangle[/st_box]

 

 

From Wikipedia.

Back of the Yards is an industrial and residential neighborhood so named because it was near the former Union Stock Yards, which employed thousands of European immigrants in the early 20th century. Life in this neighborhood was explored in Upton Sinclair‘s 1906 novel The Jungle. The area was formerly part of the town of Lake until it was annexed by Chicago in 1889. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the area was occupied largely by Eastern European immigrants and their descendants, who were predominantly ethnic Bohemian, Moravian, and Slovak.[2]
In the 1930s the activist Saul Alinsky did community organizing in this area, as its people suffered during the Great Depression. This work led to his founding the Industrial Areas Foundation in 1940, which trained community organizers.[3]