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Regent Park, Toronto — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Regent Park is a downtown Toronto neighbourhood laid out in the late 1940s as a public housing project on ground taken from Cabbagetown.
About Regent Park
Where to stay in Regent Park
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Parliament Street and River Street hold the two flanks of Regent Park, and the pick between them decides whether the walk out lands in Cabbagetown or on the blocks toward St. Paul's Basilica. Gerrard Street East caps the top. Shuter Street runs along the bottom of the 69 acres the project covers, which puts Mackenzie House, Oakham House and the Parliament Interpretive Centre within an easy downtown walk of almost any bed inside the four borders.
No corner of it sits far off.
About Regent Park
What are the main landmarks in Regent Park?
Houses do the work here. Mackenzie House, James Cooper House, Oakham House, John Cox Cottage and Mary Perram House sit among the named buildings around Regent Park, with Keg Mansion, O'Keefe House and Allandale on the same list. After the houses come the churches.
St. Paul's Basilica, Metropolitan United Church, Jarvis Street Baptist Church, Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church and Grace Toronto Church all stand nearby, while The Image Centre, Gallery Arcturus, Canada's Theatre Museum and the Parliament Interpretive Centre carry the exhibition side.
What is the history of Regent Park?
The late 1940s set the shape. Regent Park went up then as a public housing project under Toronto Community Housing, and the streets standing on the ground before it, a substantial part of Cabbagetown, were razed to clear the site. All 69 acres went to social housing.
The Cabbagetown name has since attached to the historical streets left beyond Gerrard Street East and Parliament Street, which took a different course from the 1960s and 1970s onward, while the project itself has been through redevelopment.
Where is Regent Park?
Regent Park fills a downtown Toronto rectangle between Gerrard Street East, River Street, Shuter Street and Parliament Street.
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Updated September 2026