Roncesvalles
Leafy west-end avenue named for a Napoleonic-era mountain battle, now the heart of a Polish cultural enclave.
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This guide to Roncesvalles Avenue in Toronto starts with a street name that has nothing to do with the city: a Pyrenees mountain pass, and the British officer who fought there before settling this stretch of farmland. It follows how his sons named the avenue after his old battle, and how a different set of arrivals, Polish immigrants after the Second World War, later built the neighborhood you see today.
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