“There has been a lot of contribution from the Portuguese in the city’s contemporary days and now, many generations later, they continue to make history. While Toronto has grown amuck with the gentrification of older areas, which has led to parts of its cultural influence getting lost, there are millennials, like myself, who can respectively go back to their childhood neighborhoods and not recognize it as it was. The city is changing, and seemingly faster than ever, as we collectively keep building on the foundation that was set by the pioneers of our communities.”
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“Leslieville was filled with Portuguese people who were mostly from the Azores. They found their forever homes away from the saturated west end hub that we all recognize today. My grandparents were one of the first to do so, others followed, and an offshoot from the larger community in Portugal Village was later formed. That’s not the only place they went, as there are multiple areas where the Portuguese decided to plant their flags in the Greater Toronto Area, but Leslieville was one of the larger groups, enough to necessitate their own priest within walking distance.”
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