Chinatown

This guide to Toronto's Chinatown centers on Jean Lumb, a restaurant owner on Elizabeth Street who fought city hall twice as officials tried to clear the neighborhood, first for a new City Hall in the late 1950s, then for office towers in 1967. She had opened her restaurant, Kwong Chow, on Elizabeth Street a decade earlier, and helped form the Save Chinatown Committee to lobby against the second round of demolition. Many of the shopkeepers displaced by the earlier clearance had already resettled west along Dundas Street toward Spadina Avenue, in a neighborhood that had recently been Jewish.