TRUE NORTH

In a quest to rediscover the place where she came of age, Heather Greenwood Davis finds that, for all its stratospheric growth, Toronto remains a city of neighborhoods—whose diversity is its strength

Photographs by The Ingalls

THERE ARE TWO T’S in Toronto, and if you pronounce the second one, you’re visiting. This isn’t the city’s only outsider-tell, nor is Toronto the city’s only name: It was Toronto’s very own Drake—who appeared on the cover of his 2016 multiplatinum album, Views, sitting on the edge of the iconic CN Tower—who melodically dubbed the city The Six. The moniker stuck. Now the reference is as Toronto as “We the North” chants at Raptors games. Most people are unaware that the rap god chose the numeric nomenclature as a salute to two things: the city’s original area code (416) and the 1998 amalgamation of six municipalities (Toronto, East York, North York, Scarborough, Etobicoke, and York) to form the megacity of Toronto. That a land zoning decision could influence a rap…

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Conde Nast Traveler (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2024

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