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Largest remaining spread of Victorian Houses
Cabbagetown's history began in the 1840's when thousands of Irish immigrants settled here after fleeing the potato famins in their homeland. These first Cabbagetown residents were very poor. To put food on the table they grew cabbages on their front lawns, which is how this district came to be known as Cabbagetown.
Cabbagetown's working class community was particulary hard hit by the Depression of the 1930's.
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Cabbagetown and the Great Depression
Cabbagetown's name derives from the Irish immigrants who moved to the neighbourhood beginning in the late 1840s,
said to have been so poor that they grew cabbage in their front yards. Canadian writer Hugh Garner's most famous novel,
Cabbagetown, depicted life in the neighbourhood during the Great Depression.
Much of the original Cabbagetown was razed in the late 1940s to make room for the Regent Park housing project.
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