Private Jewish Walking Tours in Toronto

Art Gallery of Ontario

The early history of Toronto's Jewish community through mass immigration of the late 19th-early 20th century.

Duration: 10 minutes

136 Beverley St

Original character of the neighbourhood. Establishment of Jewish institutions, absorption of immigrants.

Duration: 7 minutes

147 Beverley St

Government immigration policies, Jewish reaction to them.

Duration: 3 minutes

70 D'Arcy St

Formerly Eitz Chaim school. Colourful characters in the school's history.

Duration: 4 minutes

186 Beverley St

George Brown House. Some non-Jewish Canadian context. The Jewish history of the public school next door.

Duration: 3 minutes

Baldwin Street

We'll learn some interesting details about the commercial history of the street as we walk through it to Henry St.

23 Henry St

Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church, formerly the Henry Street synagogue. Synagogue architecture. Early synagogues and Toronto's first Jewish architects.

Duration: 10 minutes

Cecil Street

Rabbi of the Henry Street Synagogue. 206 and 207 Beverley: Introduction to Cecil Street as institutional hub of the older Jewish community. 24 Cecil Street: Labour Zionist HQ and school. Its later political history. 33-58 Cecil Street: An overview of the Jewish organizations and institutions once housed here. Cecil Street Community Centre: The building's past as a synagogue and centre of traditional entertainment.

Duration: 24 minutes

Spadina Avenue

Northbound from Cecil St to the El Mocambo: The less traditional side of the neighbourhood. Spadina Avenue cowboys of the 1930s and '40s. Southbound, back to Cecil Street: Grossman's Tavern, commercial development on the street and the Spadina music scene. Spadina Avenue, west side at Baldwin Street: How Kensington became a market. Spadina, between Dundas and St. Andrew St: Yiddish theatre, delicatessens, dairy restaurants, and the history of the hat trick.

Duration: 26 minutes

10 St Andrew St

The Minsker Synagogue. St. Andrew St. as the neighbourhood in miniature. Labour Lyceum across the street. History of the synagogue, the first in the kensington area

Duration: 5 minutes