West Queen West

This guide to West Queen West in Toronto opens in the early nineteen-eighties, when artists began quietly moving into empty warehouses along a strip of the city everyone else had given up on. It follows the nonprofit that decided, in nineteen ninety-five, to make that illegal living arrangement legal, turning a derelict warehouse and a former car lot into working studios. Take a slow walk down the side laneways, where the murals change most years.