Grab your shoes, don't worry about directions, and get ready to be your
own tour guide to one of Canada's many multicultural communities.
Magic Assembling is a dynamic collection showcasing the multicultural complexity
of Metro Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as it represents our global community.
Wind your way through the maps of Metro regions to explore the various ethnocultural
communities thriving side by side. Visit storefronts representing the backgrounds,
the cultures and the ethnicities of the many diverse people who have chosen
to call Canada their home.*
Beyond the storefronts, and behind the images of the people, you can explore
the immigration history of how communities came to be and the issues facing
a multiculturally complex society.**
* Storefront photos from the original Metropolitan Toronto Archives'
exhibit "Magic Assembling: Metropolitan Toronto Storefronts and Street
Scenes" can be accessed through the maps
on this site. All photos, including extra storefront photos from the Metropolitan
Toronto Archives' collection, can be accessed through the Storefront
Location Index on this site.
** Many of the articles can be accessed from the storefront pages on this
site. All articles can be accessed through the Articles
Index on this site.
Here's how to navigate this site:
Click
here to go to the main map. You can find your
way to each storefront by following the maps.
Click
here for a list of storefront locations.
Click here for a list of cultural
groups represented.
Click
here for a list of informative articles on multiculturalism.
Click here if you are a teacher
for ideas on how to use this site.
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résumé du contenu en français.
All photos © the Metropolitan Toronto Archives.
All articles from "Polyphony" © the Multicultural History
Society of Ontario. Users are free to consult these articles for educational
purposes but not to reproduce them without permission from the Multicultural
History Society of Ontario.
All articles from "Currents" © the Urban Alliance on Race
Relations.
Website design: TG Magazine, 1996
