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Cabbagetown, Toronto — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Cabbagetown is Toronto's Victorian rowhouse quarter, a leafy residential district of brick porches east of the downtown core.
About Cabbagetown
Where to stay in Cabbagetown
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Beds here favour the quiet. Cabbagetown keeps its lodgings among the brick terraces of a residential quarter, so guests trade the noise of central Toronto for tree-lined streets that stay calm well past dark, waking a short walk from the museum halls of the wider city. Little Trinity Anglican Church marks the southern edge.
St. Paul's Basilica stands close by the district's western reach.
About Cabbagetown
What are the main landmarks in Cabbagetown?
St. Paul's Basilica rises at the western edge of the quarter, its dome the tallest mark on Cabbagetown's low residential skyline. Little Trinity Anglican Church holds the southern fringe in cut stone. The neighbourhood keeps no grand museum of its own.
For those, guests cross the city to the Royal Ontario Museum or the Art Gallery of Ontario, both a ride west across Toronto from these brick streets.
What is the history of Cabbagetown?
Working families settled these blocks. Irish labourers raised the first cottages here in the mid-1800s, and the plots grew cabbages so freely that the vegetable lent Cabbagetown its lasting name across Toronto. Brick terraces replaced the early cottages as the quarter filled.
Decline set in through the middle of the last century, before restoration turned the Victorian houses of this district into some of the best-kept in Ontario.
Where is Cabbagetown?
Cabbagetown sits on the east side of downtown Toronto, a low residential quarter of brick terraces on the rising ground above the Don valley in Ontario.
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Updated July 2026