Cabbagetown
The Long Way Home reference: Artist enclave in Toronto mentioned.
Real world location: Cabbagetown is a neighbourhood in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It largely features semi-detached Victorian houses and is recognized as "the largest continuous area of preserved Victorian housing in all of North America", according to the Cabbagetown Preservation Association.
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 novel, Cabbagetown, depicted life in the neighbourhood during the Great Depression.
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More Photos From Cabbagetown (click to enlarge)
