Dovercourt-Wallace Emerson: Heavy Industry

Dupont Dept: But there is a real Dovercourt Park at the centre of this hood north of Bloor, south of Dupont and loosely between Dufferin and Ossington depending on who s sketching the boundaries. On some real estate maps it s also known as Dovercourt-Wallace Emerson, according to Globe and Mail. Today a few automotive businesses linger, but most of the heavy industry is gone and mention the name in passing, and many Torontonians have trouble picturing it on a map. In years past, the neighbourhood developed a stolid, lunch bucket character as industrial plants set up close to the Canadian Pacific Railway line just north of Dupont and Portuguese and Italian immigrant workers moved onto the side streets to the south. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.