• Gerrard Street West (Bay St. to LaPlante Ave.)

Gerrard Village was a short stretch of Gerrard Street West in downtown Toronto, between Bay Street and LaPlante Avenue, often likened to New York's Greenwich Village. Its bohemian character took shape between the late 19th century and the 1920s, as artists and writers were drawn to the modest Victorian houses and small shops close to the city's centre.

Its best-known figure was the Dutch-born painter Albert Franck, who rented a shop on Gerrard Street where he restored pictures and showed his own paintings, and who became a generous mentor to a circle of younger artists. His wife, the artist Florence Vale, shared that bohemian circle, and the painter Harold Town later looked back fondly on the Gerrard Street Village of his early career. As Toronto's arts scene shifted north to Yorkville in the 1960s, the village faded, though a few of its buildings still stand.

The Gerrard Village tee is for anyone who remembers — or wishes they did — the lost block where downtown Toronto once made its art.