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Originally Posted by Docere
Riverdale was annexed in 1884. If Riverdale is a "suburb", pretty much everything outside the downtown core is.
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Yes that is what they were. Even today they are not as urban as the core of Toronto, they are more residential, less dense and less mix-use, they are just below the urbanity of the core, hence Sub-urban.
Simple put Streetcar suburbs were areas that were too far to walk to work that were made accessible by the creation and expansion of the streetcar network.
So most of the area just outside the present downtown of Toronto are streetcar suburbs. the former downtown of Toronto was much smaller than its present state though.