{"id":16,"date":"2013-01-24T13:52:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T18:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kmhs.ca\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2021-01-03T08:25:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T13:25:08","slug":"1880s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/1880s\/","title":{"rendered":"Kensington Before the Market: The Denison Purchase Until 1910"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"919\" src=\"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/wadsworth1872n0025641k_a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/wadsworth1872n0025641k_a1.jpg 612w, https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/wadsworth1872n0025641k_a1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>The history of Kensington Market began long before there was any \u2018market\u2019 to speak of, indeed, before there was any physical or cultural semblance of the Kensington Market that exists today. Kensington Market owes its initial development from uninhabited land grants, covered in meadows and thick forests, to a densely populated neighbourhood home to important Toronto institutions to one family in particular: the Denisons. Arriving from Britain, the Denisons were committed loyalists, staunch Tory conservatives, and deeply involved in the Canadian military.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_edn1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup><sup>[i]<\/sup><\/sup><\/span><\/a> They were also committed Anglicans and important members of Toronto\u2019s wealthy, landed elite.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_edn2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup><sup>[ii]<\/sup><\/sup><\/span><\/a> Although the Denisons may appear \u201cunlikely\u201d founders of a neighbourhood characterized today as \u201ctolerant, diverse, colourful, and funky,\u201d the legacy of the Denisons abounds in the Kensington of today in forms ranging from iconic landmarks and important institutions to the very street names.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_edn3\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup><sup>[iii]<\/sup><\/sup><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div><hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\">\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ednref1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup><sup>[i]<\/sup><\/sup><\/span><\/a> Cochrane 13, Dension 16, Taylor 98<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ednref2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup><sup>[ii]<\/sup><\/sup><\/span><\/a> Cochrane 13, Dension 16, Taylor 98<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ednref3\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup><sup>[iii]<\/sup><\/sup><\/span><\/a> Cochrane 6, 9.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The history of Kensington Market began long before there was any \u2018market\u2019 to speak of, indeed, before there was any physical or cultural semblance of the Kensington Market that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/1880s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kensington Before the Market: The Denison Purchase Until 1910&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}