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Chinatown () is an ethnic enclave in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with a high concentration of ethnic Chinese residents and businesses extending along Dundas Street West and Spadina Avenue west of the centre of the city. A second area known as East Chinatown, extends along both streets from the intersection of Broadview Avenue and Gerrard Street. First developed in the late 19th century, the main Chinatown is now one of the largest Chinatowns in North America and one of several major Chinese-Canadian communities in the Greater Toronto Area. There are approximately six Chinatowns in Greater Toronto, including in the municipalities of Markham and Mississauga. ==History== Toronto's Chinatown first appeared during the 1890s with the migration of American Chinese from California due to racial conflict and from the Eastern United States due to the economic depression at the time. The earliest record of Toronto's Chinese community is traced to Sam Ching, who owned a hand laundry business on Adelaide Street in 1878.〔 ''"The first Chinese resident recorded in Toronto was Sam Ching, the owner of a hand laundry business on Adelaide Street in 1878."''〕 Ching was the first Chinese person listed in the city's directory〔 ''"Sam Ching was the first Chinese person to be listed in the city directory"''〕 and is now honoured with a lane named after him. The first Chinese cafe opened in 1901 and that number grew to 19 in 1912 and to around 100 a decade after that. Toronto's downtown Chinatown has two phases in its history since inception: #First Chinatown (1870s–1961): The original Chinatown was centred near present-day Elizabeth and Hagerman street (). Situated in what was then known as "The Ward", one of the city's largest slum areas for incoming immigrants, the area was expropriated and razed in 1955, despite myriad protests to make way for Toronto New City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square. More than three-quarters of the neighbourhood was commandeered as a result of the forced dispossession. #Old Chinatown (1950s–Present): The present downtown Chinatown is centred at Spadina Avenue and Dundas street (). Although a small Chinese community was already present in this location prior to the 1950s, the "old" Chinatown was formed mainly when businesses with the financial ability moved from the First Chinatown to the Spadina location. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chinatown, Toronto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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