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Strip, the
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:Spadina Strip
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n.
a richly cosmopolitan section of Spadina Avenue in Toronto, noted for its markets, flophouses, and polyglot atmosphere; the section of Spadina between Wellington and College Streets.
Quotations
1957
The many-tongued enclave known as the Strip is cut off from the midtown section by a near-Gothic stone pile that straddles the Avenue just north of College Street. . . .