{"id":38,"date":"2013-01-24T14:09:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T19:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kmhs.ca\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2020-10-25T16:56:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T20:56:59","slug":"1970s-present","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/1970s-present\/","title":{"rendered":"1970s-1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">Overview<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Over the past forty years, Kensington Market has preserved its status as a vibrant and distinctive multicultural community within Toronto&#8217;s downtown core. The neighbourhood\u2019s maintenance of an outdoor market, interior milieu of vintage and ethnic stores and unique pedestrian environment demonstrates that immigrant entrepreneurism and bohemian culture remain pillars of community life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The period between 1970 and 1980 witnessed several major shifts in Kensington\u2019s social profile in terms of immigration and marketplace culture. During the 1970s, an influx of immigrant groups particularly from East and Southeast Asian and Caribbean further diversified the community\u2019s ethnic makeup. Another change to Kensington\u2019s social profile occurred throughout the 1980s and 1990s when bohemian merchants and young urban professionals settled and established businesses and galleries in the Market. Shifts in the social profile of Kensington Market during this period transformed the neighbourhood into the diverse national landmark that it remains today within the city of Toronto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Over the past forty years, Kensington Market has preserved its status as a vibrant and distinctive multicultural community within Toronto&#8217;s downtown core. The neighbourhood\u2019s maintenance of an outdoor market, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/1970s-present\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1970s-1980s&#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-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmhs.ca\/footnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}