Local Landmarks & Heritage
Local Landmarks & Heritage
- Bloor/Gladstone Library (built 1913)
- Bloor Street West commercial strip (Montrose to Dufferin)
- Dovercourt Park (adjacent)
Neighborhood History
Neighborhood History
Bloorcourt Village is a west-end Toronto strip running along Bloor Street West between Montrose Avenue and Dufferin Street, just south of the Dovercourt Park neighbourhood. Its earliest dated landmark is the Bloor/Gladstone branch of the Toronto Public Library, designed by Chapman and McGiffin Architects and opened on October 25, 1913 as one of the city's Carnegie-era branches. The surrounding strip became a formal Business Improvement Area in 1979.
The library has been renovated twice — in 1975–76, and again in 2006–09, when it gained a glass-box addition. Today Bloorcourt's storefronts reflect Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Ukrainian and Jamaican communities living alongside Dufferin Grove and Dovercourt-Wallace, and the BIA's Sidewalk Sale and Music Festival each June has become the strip's signature event.
The Bloorcourt tee is for the people who keep this stretch of Bloor running — a 1913 library at its edge and many languages along the sidewalk.
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Bloorcourt Village - West End Toronto - Unisex Cotton Tee
Bloorcourt Village - West End Toronto - Unisex Cotton Tee
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