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.[1]
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 Oakwood Light Rail station was being built on the border of these two neighbourhoods wags described it as "where Rasta meets Pasta".
References
- ↑ Desmond Allen; Ken Wainwright (2021-05-10). "Big news for Little Jamaica, Toronto: Enclave carved out by Jamaicans in major North American city to be preserved as cultural district". Jamaican Observer. Archived from the original on 2021-05-10. 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. Retrieved 2021-05-11. "In the 1960s Jamaican immigrants to Toronto, Canada, carved out a settlement for themselves, and proceeded to transform the space into what the Globalnews.ca magazine calls 'a global hotbed for reggae culture'."
