Over at the http://imaginingtoronto.com/ blog this article from April of 2011 provides an insight into that area rarely given in text about Toronto. When visiting jump down to A brief overview: text – a bit is re-posted here.
Contemporary Yorkville, a gentrified district of expensive boutiques and luxury condominiums whose spiritual epicentre is the intersection of Bloor Street and Avenue Road, owes the bulk of its literary reputation to a brief bohemian period that lasted less than a decade but has inspired at least two generations of writers eager to pay homage to the memory of a neighbourhood once known as Toronto’s very own Haight- Ashbury.
