Bell Canada: Jewish and Stephen Church

bell canada: Demographics in the area begin to change from mostly well-to-do professionals to a mix of professionals, labourers and tradesmen, according to NOW Magazine. Early 1900s A period of rapid change begins with an influx of eastern European Jewish immigrants from the Ward near City Hall the less well-off among them settling west of Spadina.1907 Bell Canada establishes its central office at Bellevue and Oxford.1913 Tensions between Jews and Christians boil over the Canadian Jewish News reports five Orthodox Jewish men chasing a converted Christian preacher out of the neighbourhood. Stephen Church is laid, and the Denison estate is gradually subdivided and sold for homes to British and Irish immigrants.1880s A building boom follows the introduction of streetcars. Expand1927 Jewish congregations grow, and a streetscape once defined by Victorian homes acquires Jewish symbols with the completion of the Kiever Synagogue, followed three years later by the Anshei Minsk Synagogue.1930s 40s Stores open in the ground floors of homes, and the area becomes known as the Jewish Market. The Labor Lyceum on Spadina, a centre for trade unionism, holds a memorial service for Russian-born anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman, who came to Canada in 1927 and moved into a flat on Spadina after being stripped of her U.S. citizenship. 1950s 60s The postwar wave of migration to Canada sees Portuguese immigrants from the Azores become the Market predominant ethnic group. Shops close on Friday evenings and reopen after the Sabbath ends on Saturday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.