The Imagined City, Second Series
Will the Real Cabbagetown Please Stand Up?
Amy Lavender Harris
Parliament Street Branch, Toronto Public Library
18 October 2011
Will the Real Cabbagetown Please
Stand Up?: Regent Park, St.
Jamestown and Cabbagetown in
the Literary Imagination
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Source: Garner, Hugh, 1968. Cabbagetown. Toronto: Ryerson Press.
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Source: Colleen Kelly, 1984. Cabbagetown in Pictures. Toronto: TPL Board.
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Credit: Crystal Luxmore via Flickr / Creative Commons license
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystal_luxmore/5640540790/sizes/l/in/photostream/
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Source: City of Toronto Archives.
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Credit: Sean Marshall via Flickr / Creative Commons license
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7119320@N05/6060452307/
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Source: Mark Thurman, 1987. Cabbagetown Gang. Toronto: NC Press.
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Source: rapdict.org
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Literary Representations of Cabbagetown
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Butler, Juan, 1970. Cabbagetown Diary: A Documentary. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates Limited.
Cornish, John, 1968. Sherbourne Street. Toronto: Clarke Irwin.
Ellis, Deborah, 1999. Looking For X. Toronto: Groundwood.
Garner, Hugh, 1950; 968. Cabbagetown. Toronto: White Circle; Ryerson Press.
Garner, Hugh [under the pseudonym Jarvis Warwick], 1950. Waste No Tears. News Stand / Export
Publishing.
Garner, Hugh, 1976. The Intruders. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson. (A follow-up, in some ways, to
Cabbagetown.)
Jewinski, Hans, 1975. Poet Cop. Markham, ON: Simon & Schuster / Pocket Books. [poetry]
Lapp, Dave, 2008. Drop-In. Montreal: Conundrum Press. [graphic novel/memoir]
Matheson, George, 1996. Hogs and Cabbages. Lumby, British Columbia: Kettle Valley Publishing.
McAree, J.V., 1953. Cabbagetown Store. (memoir). Toronto: Ryerson Press.
Plantos, Ted, 1977. The Universe Ends at Sherbourne & Queen. Toronto: Steel Rail Publishing.
Plantos, Ted, 2000. The Shanghai Noodle Killing. Toronto: Seraphim.
Rosen, Eric S., 1991. The Banker of Cabbagetown. Toronto: Eric S. Rosen. [play / theatre and history]
Thurman, Mark, 1987. Cabbagetown Gang. Toronto: NC Press. [children's / young adult]
Type, David, 1979. Cabbagetown Plays (Diamond Cutters, Snow Birds and The Travesty and the Fruit Fly).
Toronto: Playwrights Co-Op.
Type, David, 1984. Just Us Indians. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press. [play; also set in Cabbagetown]
Wynne-Jones, Tim, 1982. The Knot. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. [fiction]
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Non-Fiction Works about Cabbagetown
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Cabbagetown Preservation Association, 1992. Touring Old Cabbagetown. Toronto: Cabbagetown
Preservation Association.
Coopersmith, Penina [photographs by Vincenzo Pietropaolo], 1998. Cabbagetown: The Story of a
Victorian Neighbourhood. Toronto: James Lorimer.
Farewell Oak Street [documentary], 1953. Grant McLean/ NFB.
Kelly, Colleen, 1984. Cabbagetown in Pictures. Local History Handbook No. 4. Toronto: Toronto
Public Library Board.
Lorimer, James and Myfanwy Phillips, 1971. Working People: Life in a Downtown City
Neighbourhood. Toronto: James Lewis & Samuel Ltd. [narratives of Cabbagetown]
Rose, Albert, 1958. Regent Park: A Study in Slum Clearance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Rust-D’Eye, George, [1984] 1993. Cabbagetown Remembered. Toronto: Stoddart. [local history]
Wiley, James [photographs by James Wiley; Foreward by George Rust-D'Eye], 1994. Images of
Cabbagetown. Toronto: V.A. Gates.
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Amy Lavender Harris teaches in the Department of Geography at York
University in Toronto, where her work focuses on urban identity and the
cultural significance of place.
Her book, Imagining Toronto (Mansfield Press, 2010) was shortlisted for the
Gabrielle Roy Prize in Canadian literary criticism and won the Award of
Merit, the highest honour given to a book at the 2011 Heritage Toronto
Awards.
Amy is a contributing editor with Spacing Magazine, where she writes a
regular column on Toronto literature. She has also contributed essays to
Open Book: Toronto and Open Book Magazine, Reading Toronto, The
State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto (Coach House, 2006),
GreenTOpia (with Peter Fruchter, Coach House, 2007), Canada: A Literary
Tour (Library & Archives Canada, 2009), Hagar: Studies in Culture, Polities
and Identity (2011), Plan Canada and the Ontario Planning Journal.
Amy speaks regularly to popular and scholarly audiences about Toronto
literature, urban culture, identity and the imaginative qualities of cities.
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www.imaginingtoronto.com
Amy Lavender Harris
alharris@yorku.ca
416-604-9416
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