Kensington Market

How bazaar!

From its early 20th century roots as Toronto’s Jewish marketplace, Kensington has absorbed wave after wave of immigration. Today, Kensington’s small maze of main streets caters to a panoply of ethnicities, as well as a unique assortment of tourists, locals and resident eccentrics. In 2006, the neighbourhood was declared a National Historic Site, yet it’s a long way off being a museum piece—these crowded, dirty streets are still the city’s most charmingly anarchic.