Little Jamaica

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Little Jamaica is the informal name of neighbourhood in Toronto, Canada with a relatively large number of residents who were born in Jamaica, or who had Jamaican ancestor.

The song Reggae Lane celebrates how the neighbourhood was the home to more Reggae recording than any place outside of Jamaica.

The neighbourhood borders on a neighbourhood with residents of Italian background. When a Light Rail station was being built on the border of these two neighbourhoods wags described it as "where Rasta meets Pasta".

https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/big-news-for-little-jamaica-toronto-enclave-carved-out-by-jamaicans-in-major-north-american-city-to-be-preserved-as-cultural-district_221103?profile=1373 https://web.archive.org/web/20210510214956/https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/big-news-for-little-jamaica-toronto-enclave-carved-out-by-jamaicans-in-major-north-american-city-to-be-preserved-as-cultural-district_221103?profile=1373