Toronto As A Local | Ukrainian Bloor West, High Park + Polish Roncesvalles
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- There's a lot more to see in Toronto than just the downtown core. Did you know there's Ukrainian and Polish districts on the west side of Toronto that are very close to High Park? Ukrainian cabbage rolls and Polish kalbasa are a must if you visit these districts, as well as a walk down to Lake Ontario. Hanging out in the more local neighborhoods of a city always gives you more insight to what life is like for the average person living there. I hope this video will give you some new ideas of what to do in Bloor West Village, Roncesvalles and High Park!
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born and bred in toronto some 60 plus years ago its nice when someone takes interest in the old neighbourhoods ..great vid ..brings back memories
My true home! Miss High Park/BWV with all my heart. THANK YOU for posting!!!
I couldn’t get a close look at them in the video, but generally Polish crepes are called naleśniki (“nah-lesh-ñeekee”)! Very yummy.
Good to know!
And ukrainian crepes are nalesniki too!
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there is , obviously, something, definitely, wrong with ur last name ))) пердей или пердеж ))) com on that is hilarious
Alina your videos in the sunshine in Toronto with the camera you are using have given an excellent picture quality lately,they really made Toronto"pop" ,standout and look great, it has been educational watching these as a foreigner in 🇬🇧 u.k. good work,Alina♥️👍🇬🇧
Thank you so much!
Grettings from Poland :D
Fantastic video! Toronto is a diverse city, and I love how you've highlighted it in this series so far by showing these neighborhoods. Camerawork was splendid once again, especially at High Park. It's truly a blessing to have such expansive greenspace within the city. Keep up the good work and I look forward to the next one 👍🏼
Thank you! Yes, Toronto actually does really good for creating green spaces all across the city!
Hi Alina, I always feel your smile is a lay of sunshine. I hope you will keep it and make us happier!!! This video is so nice same as the previous one.
Thank you so much!!
Alina i like the way of how you show and explain the places 😊
Thank you for sharing everything and honest opinion as I never even heard of that coffee company! Of course, know Starbucks I have not been there in ten years! I make my own coffee at home! Food looks amazing thanks for sharing about the culture and events in the summertime! Waving a hand hello from Missouri, USA!
I never imagined that I would see my own city and stomping grounds on your channel!
I lived in Toronto more than 30 years ago. I studied at the Royal conservatory on Bloor Street. I see the only things changed are the street cars 😁
Hey you were in my neighbourhood!! I was actually in the park this morning for a walk. Bloor West Village, High Park and Roncesvailles are great areas. Enjoyed the video.
Lovely day, thanks for taking us on a walk!
Alina you always look gorgeous. It's doesn't matter whether It's winter spring or summer, you're always beautiful. You are more cute than the squirrel in the park. By the way, I too love Tim Horton Icecap and DR DD. Hope to see more videos and take care.
Классное видео , Алиночка молодец, продолжай снимать интересные видео репортажи , очень интересно узнать что то новое о Канаде 💗💗💗💗💗
Спасибо!
Greetings from Minnesota, lived in High Park for 9 years in the eighties, close to Jane subway station. Good job Alina !!
wow this kind of video id like to watch im a nature lover thanks for sharing this to us
My wife and I, and my sisters and mother have attended the Ukrainian Festival on Bloor St. when it was held in August a number of times... very enjoyable. Then they moved it to September, which seemed not to be as convenient. Sadly, we have not been to it since. It was there I had my first taste of Borscht. I also bought my first Ukrainian shirt at the festival... very expensive. When I was in Ukraine in 2018, I bought another Ukrainian shirt for 1/4 the price. I like them both.
Hi Alina , I enjoyed you on a 🚶 in the park & in the city. What a beautiful day in Toronto & you looked sharp in black & those oversize Sunglasses ! Glad the geese didn't harass you. 😎
The Ukrainian Credit union is a registered financial institution that was created by/for Ukrainian Canadians in the 40s. I think there is about a dozen locations around Ontario
They have these banks in Winnipeg. I used to live there
@@seancurran2054 I didn't know they were out there too. Makes sense since so much of the Ukrainian diaspora settled out there
John Toth Yeah Winnipeg has a lot of Ukrainien people
As an American, I appreciate the stop at Tim Horton’s 😂😂👏👏👏
Appreciate your awesome content Alina! Thanks for a great veiw! Luv&peace be safe my Saskatchewan friend....Toronto is so cool!🙂✌⚘
Thank you so much!
That bank is a community bank and it doesn’t have any connection to the actual Ukraine banks.There are also branches like that in the New Jersey and Chicago. The event calls Ukrainian days which happening every year on August 24, Ukraine Independence Day. We also have the same festival in Chicago but in general there is a big Ukrainian community here in Chicago and the area calls Ukrainian village full of Ukrainian churches, shops and restaurants🤗
The Chipmunk part made me melt . Of Course ! the animals in Canada are as nice as the people .
Great footage of the chipmunk! Total fun to see real Toronto and you creating dynamic content!
Enjoyed video on Toronto. When is "Simcoe" day in Ontario - the "founder" of Ontario - General Simcoe is buried in east Devon, United Kingdom. His gave and area around it is owned and kept by the state of Ontario. Maybe Devon, United Kingdom could be one other place you could visit. There is also a monument to him in Exeter Cathedral - he died in the Cathedral Close, Exeter, Devon. You will also see more swans on and beside the river Exe.
Awesome! High Park is still so beautiful. And yes, you're right, when I saw you walking up to those Canadian Geese my first thought was "Be careful Alina. They're territorial and will attack you." - Fortunately you already knew that... although it would have been pretty funny to see you running away from a goose! lol
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I'm not familiar with the cultural areas you were walking through so it was nice to learn a little something new about T.O. Thank you for sharing.
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The homes in High Park *are* incredible. I've been in a few of them as a party guest and in one I can truthfully say that I got "lost" in the upper hallways looking for a bathroom. Now whether that was because the house was so large or the quantity of alcohol I'd consumed was is still the remaining question all these years later :-)
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Stay healthy and I'm looking forward to future videos from you.
Bye for now,
Brian
Now we have those in USA. Tim Hortons was in ME and NH for years, since 2002 i remeber them there, and now we have Tim Hortons in NYC and in NJ. wouha!!! I lived in torono back in 90s so I liked tims coffe and their coffee is indeed best coffee. Also in that high pak thee is always skate rink at winter, and I like those street cars in old part of the town, Here in the states people have no clue what street car actually is )))
Ahhh i loved this video! It's been over 10 years since I've been in Toronto but I've never been to that side of the city. I hope you are well!
Hi Alina, I quite enjoy the walk. Let' s do this more often. Thanks and cheers from Sydney! Stay safe!
Didn’t know that there is a Ukrainian quartier in Toronto. Please show us know of other quartiers. Thank you!
We have just about everyone covered here :)
My summer favorite is iced Matcha green tea latte, with peppermint syrup - cooling. Love beautiful homes and parks. Swan was doing yoga poses - “downward dog” (or was that “downward swan”)! Hi Alina! Hope this comment made your day!
Your bright lively personality really makes these videos. Keep it up
Great video, Alina. So much to learn about Canada, and thanks for using this time to share your country. Wish we had more of the transportation options you have there.
My pleasure!
Thanks for the tour. I’ve never been to Toronto, but it’s on my list to visit.
Appreciate the tour, Ottawa and Montreal are the fathered west, ans Vancouver and Victoria in the west.
My goal is take the ferry from Newfoundland, which I have been too up the coast, then depart and drive to Churchill falls, and back to Quebec. That's an adventure.
I like the way you talk and the videos. Keep it up.
Hey beautiful, I agree 110%, Canadian geese are vicious like you wouldn't believe, you mess with them and they will attack you no matter how far you walk or run away from them, lol!!🙂🌹❤
Thank you for taking us to Tim Hortons. As a Canadian I never go there on my own 🤔😄😊!
Wow beautiful park 😍 👏
My 2 favourite places to go to in Toronto is Bluffers Park and centre island, and I am part polish and love polish food lol
Thanks for the tour Alina.
Toronto is about an hour from me. I haven't been there in awhile. I've always enjoyed my visits there.
I have never seen that part of the city. It looks like a terrific area. The park is absolutely beautiful.
I am definitely going to stop in, and have a look around that area when things open up a little more.
The last time I had authentic Ukrainian food was in my foster mother's kitchen, and that was awhile ago. It's difficult to find in restaurants. I miss it. Perhaps there is something in that area, and I'm definitely going to have a stroll around that park.
Very nice video. Take care........💖💖
18:58 thanks to your vídeos I am learning a lot about Canada
Loved It!
Hey I like your outfit !! Contrast of your glowing face and simple black shirt:) This colour choice suits you for summer. My opinion:)
Hi alina very good your video.thanks
Wow the camera fantastic
Leaving Saskatchewan to find Ukrainians in Toronto seems counter intuitive. :-)
Wel we have Canadian geese here they don't migrate like the use too! We have a a nature preserve wher you can see migrating birds. I can hear the geese at night traveling from pond to pond
You can tell if the geese are at tree top they are locals now! I hear they really like golf courses!
I lived the for a while--on Quebec Avenue. One of the few places in the world where the Poles and Ukrainians like each other. Great food (Polish and Ukrainian food is identical).
Really beautiful there Alina! Good video!
Thank you!
Amazing video alina.
Me: *Also drinking an Iced Capp from Tim Hortons while watching this* ☺️
Could you please show us some of Little Italy in the future? I didn’t even know there was one last time I was in Toronto! And unfortunately here in Western New York (the other side of Lake Ontario), there isn’t any good Italian food!
haha love it. Yes, will try and go to Little Italy sometime!
I grew up in Toronto and good Italian food was everywhere. From Italian style pizza to the Old Spaghetti factory on the Esplanade. Little Italy is in the West side of Toronto along College st. to Dufferin st.and south to Dundas st.. They even have their own radio station since the 60s.
Great walking tour of High Park with the Ukrainian and Polish areas all the way to Lake Ontario. Very informative Alina !
Thank you!
Way before there was an internet I wanted a Polish restaurant in Chicago - couldn't find.
Классное видео как всегда!!!! Лайк 👍👍👍 Всегда интересно смотреть как там у вас😊 Здоровья и всего только хорошего!!!!
Chipmunk ! We had them at old home place. I would got to a wood lot wher they only cut every other tree. Just sit still an out they came ours were reddish orange with the black strips an a bit bigger than that guy
Fantastic video 👏 with great music.All the best.😘
Perogy/perogie, borscht, kolbasa, holubchi, the foods of the gods. Of course, given that I am now a vegetarian I haven't been able to find vegetarian kolbasa, but I have vegetarian versions of everything else thankfully.
haha yes, hopefully one day!
Got a kick out of the chip monk. Brought back a memory of walking in a small woods, old stone walls, looking for a photo shot. Wandered into a small area and was in the middle of a chip monk. Community. Maybe 75 or so chip monks, all barking at me. Some just inches away.
That's the area where I lived in 1999-2001. Great place. Thank You.
By the way, You visited Chernivtsy, Ukraine in March 2020. That's my hometown. On your video minute 3:56 - 4:12 You were passing by right behind the apartment building where my Dad lives. At that time I stayed at his place and we could have met! )))
I'd be happy to explain where the Ukrainian businesses USED to be before they were run out of Bloor West Village by greedy landlords. The pandemic has caused a few to close also, Jolanta Interiors which was in your footage among them.
Amber restaurant, lots of changes in the past 50+ years we’ve been here…NOT all good though
I grew up in SE Michigan about an hour from the Windsor Border.
My very first trip outside the USA was my sixth grade trip to Toronto.
Our class took the train and stayed at the University of Toronto Dorms.
What a wonderful trip. Since then I've been to the city as a friend owns
a hotel on Queens Street West. I've also spent time there for different performance events. I traveled in to see the premiere of Fosse many many years ago :)
Toronto is lovely, but the prices are outrageous.
I suppose I shouldn't complain about prices considering I lived on the Upper East Side of NYC for 10 years. Living in NYC is so unbelievably expensive, even when you have money it's expensive. I moved out in 2015 and I'm now back in rural Michigan living on a lake with my dog and loving life. The city was fun while I was young, but you hit 40 and it's time to leave :)
My family and I would spend holidays at St. Anne's Castle. I believe it's a spa now.
It's in Grafton, Ontario. I have lovely memories from our times there. www.steannes.com/
Good video I really appreciate your hard work.We will keep supporting you.👍👍👍😁😁
Omg Alina I was in High Park yesterday. My favorite place in Toronto.
Getting close to 60K! Good job, Alina!
Thank you very much!
You are extremely polite,a sign of good home training!
That stick of bread you held up at the end are called, Bread Sticks here in the United States and we dip them in Pizza Sauce.
D'jen-koo-yeh bardza. Was expecting a mushroom hunt in Hyde Park. Great idea to film the crazy prices in the Real Estate window. Gives an immediate idea of any city's cost of living. My wife did this for some modest apartments in Monte Carlo - beyond crazy prices. Crazy. Tim Horton = what a guy eh.
Thanks for showing Canada. What about cost of living there? How much regular people earn there? How much are houses and apartments? Prices for groceries etc. Up and downsides of living in Canada? How are people there?
I actually already have a video on my channel about that called Cost of Living In Toronto As a Millenial!
Alina, what a beautiful day, perfect to go to High Park. I didn't know of the Ukrainian and Polish areas, perhaps next time I go to Toronto. However, I don't know anything about their food so I'd be confused as to what to order. On another note, real estate in Toronto (as well as in other major Canadian cities) is absolutely ridiculous!
Hi Alina another beautiful vedio from you as like you.😀
I really enjoyed the tour!
Hi 👋🏽 as always excellent video and wonderful tour it’s beautiful over there thanks and be safe
I have paint my grandmothers deck, today. So I’m glad I caught this video early. I have a joke for you Alina. What happens if you throw a red brick into the Black Sea... it gets wets. Hahaha, know corny right. Hope to see you on the road soon, traveling around.
'Blinis' in polish are 'nalisniki' as well as in some regions of Ukraine
I use to see Canadian geese flying north way up there in a v shaped formation!=8)
Alina, there is some mistake. A MLYNCYs is as Polish word as Ukraine word too. Both Polish and Ukrainians use one common name of this food. It is mean some wrapped roll bakery with some deli inserted into - jam or ham, or some fruits or even caviar. Russians says a BLEEN for this food.
Hoi, Alina, really nice to see something from you´re hand about Toronto, more please!. Been there a couple of times and also, but definitely not othen enough, to some specials places in Eastern Europe ,for example Ukraine!. Last visit was to Iwano.
This is a shortlist about places flown to from Toronto, been also to Billy Bishop Toronto island:
1/475 YOW Air Canada E90 C-FNAN
2/479 YXU AirCanadaJazz DH81 C-FABA
3/480 FRA Air Transat A313 C-GTSX
4/957 YEG WestJet B738 C-FWSE
5/1386 PDL Sata A313 CS-TGV
6/1754 BOS WestJet Encore DH84 C-GENV
Been to high park many times.
Thank you Alina for those videos. I hope one day soon I will migrate to Canada.
I am ur huge fan from toronto. Hopefully i bump into u one day🤗
Credit Unions are different than banks and they are usually not international, local to regions.
Nice tour....I am your new viewer
nice video. You should go to New York city, to the Russian/Ukrainian neighborhood of Brighton Beach, tons of restaurants, shops nightclubs. All the signs are in the Cyrillic alphabet, so when you exit the subway station you really feel like you've made a long journey!
Definitely want to go there sometime!
@@AlinaMcleod Спасибі за вашу відповідь! I definitley want to go to Toronto soon. Happy travels!
Amazing video
Классные прогулки по Торонто 👌
A sunny day in Toronto ☀️ 🌞 😎
Greetings to you and your parents from India🇮🇳🇨🇦🇨🇦😁
Stay blessed and happy always ❤️
And stay safe and healthy ♥️
hey cheers. well make good videos everytime. mostly i watch. but in this video you didn't mentioned where it was and when i saw location in left bottom corner icon then i understood. i love Ukrain but anyways thanks for making this video.
Looking beautiful as usual alina, xoxo love the upload.
Ohh your in my area. Good job, pretty well done.
Thank you Alina.
super interesting to see how the Polish neighbourhood looks like in Toronto! :)
It's a wonderful neighborhood! :)
I has in Toronto 1990 its nice city
great video of Canada hot spots, cant wait till this covid19 goes away so I can travel again.... My husband is Ukrainian, and he requests blini on the weekends, super easy to make, even easier if you are making the farmers cheese too...
Just one word - Gorgeous! *) Alina, thx for video from Canada
Thank you!
I hope you won't miss the Ukrainian festival this weekend Sept. 15-17 while you're back in town!
Awesome walking tour Alina! Ride the Rocket!