Rich in culture and history, Cabbagetown is a neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its 19th Century architectural flavour has been largely preserved. The Cabbagetown Preservation Association says the neighbourhood comprises "the largest continuous area of preserved Victorian housing in North America".

Local legend has it that Cabbagetown is so named because the thousands of poor Irish immigrants who arrived in the late 1840's could afford to eat only the cabbage they grew themselves, supposedly in their front yards. An influx of Macedonian immigrants followed towards the end of the 19th century.

The original boundaries of Cabbagetown were: Gerrard Street to the north, Queen Street to the south, Parliament Street to the west and the Don River to the east. Cabbagetown had long been one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Toronto, and much of the original Cabbagetown was razed in the late 1940's to make room for the Regent Park housing project. Subeqeuntly, the Cabbagetown name came to be applied to the Victorian neighbourhood a few blocks to the north.
Cabbagetown's boundaries are now generally accepted as: Gerrard Street to the south, Wellesley Street to the north, Sherbourne Street to the west and the Don River to the east. The neighbourhood of Corktown, south of Regent Park, now incorporates part of the southern reaches of 'old' Cabbagetown. Along with a small number of houses east of River Street, this is the only part of the original Cabbagetown that remains today.

Cabbagetown was gentrified by affluent professionals who began to move into the "new" neighborhood in the late 1960s. Many restored homes and became community activists. Today, wrought iron fences, stone walkways and beautifully kept gardens are common in some parts of Cabbagetown. A farmer's market is held regularly in Riverdale Park. Predominantly liberal, the neighborhood is home to many artists, musicians, doctors, lawyers, social workers, journalists, writers, and professors. Former Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney railed against his trendy Cabbagetown opponents on "The Secret Mulroney Tapes" -- conversations with journalist Peter C. Newman.

But Cabbagetown is still home to some of the poorest of the poor in Toronto. Welfare recipients from public housing projects mingle with affluent professionals at a local discount supermarket. Panhandling and drug-dealing are part of the urban landscape; so are gourmet shops, upscale boutiques and arts festivals. Some traces of a 1960's counter-culture feeling are evident in vintage clothing stores, a gestalt therapy clinic and an adventure travel agency. The gritty Cabbagetown Boxing Club is a reminder of an earlier, and rougher, past.

A restaurant review in a September 2005 community newspaper captures something of the neighborhood's dichotomy: "Cabbagetown might be one of Toronto's most exclusive neighbourhoods but you'd never know it from strolling down its main drag. A jumble of discount stores and cheap coffee shops that attract the down-on-their luck and the just plain unlucky, Parliament (Street) is the polar opposite of the leafy avenues lined with million-dollar piles only a block away."

In 2004 Cabbagetown has become a Heritage Conservation District, protected by municipal bylaw. Included within the district are St. James Cemetery, Necropolis Cemetery, the Riverdale Park and Farm, and Wellesley Park.

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