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John Street is a street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It runs from Stephanie Street and Grange Park in the north to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Front Street in the south. It is home to a number of Toronto's cultural institutions, including buildings for the CBC, CTV, Toronto International Film Festival. The ''National Post'' has described it as "Running directly through the entertainment district, its spine connects many great cultural institutions, popular retail outlets, restaurants and soon-to-be-built condos."〔("John Street Redux; A cultural corridor will run from Queen Street to Queen's Quay." ) Jennifer Febbraro. ''National Post.'' Jan 22, 2011. pg. PH.1〕 The City of Toronto has dubbed the street a "Cultural Corridor" and a report calls it "the centrepiece of the Entertainment District."〔(John Street Corridor Improvements ). City of Toronto. January 5, 2011〕 ==History== John, and other streets in the area, were named after John Graves Simcoe, the founder of York (today Toronto) and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. During the typhus epidemic of 1847, 863 Irish immigrants died of typhus in fever sheds at the Toronto Hospital on the northwest corner of King and John Street.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.torontoplaques.com/Pages_GHI/Irish_Immigrants_and_the_Fever_Sheds.html )〕
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