Comment 36522

By TreyS (registered) | Posted December 23, 2009 at 00:30:14

If I drive directly south from my house for 3 or 4 blocks im right in the middle of Delaware and St. Clair Blvd. these house are easy $400k and go to $6-700k. This City is sometimes crazy like that. But back when they were built I guess it was miles away from the worker-classes and these were the business owners. It's an interesting pocket of luxury homes,,, perhaps the most expensive in the downtown east end. I wonder why a mini-Durand happened all the way out here.?

The houses date almost to around the time of Durand's mansions.. Maybe it was an ethnic thing. At the same time, Westdale was developing a similar style and exclusive residential area. Encouraged for WASPs, to live, then brought a Protestant University to the area. McMaster a Presbyterian/Methodist school from Toronto.

From what I know. Jews where originally banned from living in Westdale. Ironically it eventually became a dominant Jewish neighbourhood. And the Sherman/Delaware area was a dominate wealthy Catholic Italian nieghbourhood. Barton-Sherman Gang, And Durand was strictly WASP elite. Eveywhere else was factory factory workers/middle class. neighbourhoods. And only small pockets of ethnic groups formed unofficial ethnic neighbourhoods.... with the exception of Concession Street which was part of the Underground Railway and US Blacks settled there and formed the original "Concession" Neighbourhood.

Fascinating stuff in Hamilton's history.

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