I grew up in a part of Scarborough where it was rarer to see a kid from a non-immigrant family than the other way around. Kingston and Cliffside...in some ways it was a quiet place, in others...I remember when I was in nursing school I got placed at a "high needs" elementary school in what I was assured was a "low socioeconomic neighborhood" where I could see and work against the social determinants of health we'd all just been educated on...imagine my surprise when this was the shortest commute to a placement NY entire nursing school career. In fact, this school was less than a five minute walk from my high school Talk about surreal. I now work as a nurse in children's crisis mental health, near the Jane and Finch area. Watching this brought up a lot of memories and feelings for me
Man at 4:20 when he talks about being the man of the house at a young age and being aware of bills and other adult stuff...I feel you 😪. Kids should be able to be kids, it sucks that being in low income situations rob you of this. Then when he goes on to discuss his motivations of being a dad and giving his kids what he didn't. Love to you bro, I feel the same. God bless and I know your kids are blessed! Thanks for telling these stories!
Canada is a great country and Scarborough is an amazing place where people have come from other countries and were given the opportunity to have a life that they wouldn’t have in their home country.
Jordan, this is a wonderful short documentary. I see you mentioned Willow Park PS and it made me realize that the school is where I met Brandon, Timaj and even Mohammed in the film. Even though I lived on the other block at Orton Park, the struggle was real and this reminds me how far we have come growing up in this neighborhood.
The opening lines "underrated, misunderstood, overlooked, misrepresented" - damn if that doesn't describe scarborough so well. i live at scarborough golf and lawrence and smile when I saw these familiar places, solaso!!! ❤ all the subjects were beautiful and i loved hearing their stories. not me crying when it was that art show at the end omg. beautiful doc.
3847 Apt 315 my home from roughly '77-80, rough times -- I sure relate to the guy saying as the oldest kid with no dad in the house and trying to help look after things but I was like 9 -- grade 2-5 at Willow Park. What pleases me most about this film is the positive sense of neighbourhood and community that seems to exist today. In my day it was a place to dream of escaping from, but now there are many positive aspects of living there. Love the mural, love the backyard festival/party, --- makes me actually want to go back and visit...
I love what they did for the neighborhood I used to live at 3847 Lawrence apt 503 I remember rocky 4 pizza 🍕, the doughnut nook & Flintstones variety store
The Scarborough of the past is gone and has been taken over by Indians. Its crazy how fast it was over run, its all you see now. Are country is suppose to be diversity and yet we seem to be just becoming Indian.
You just don't know because you're not going around and seeing other places that's why you don't know about Scarborough like that just your people or where you're from Scarborough was always like that
why are ungrateful, lazy criminals considered 'misunderstood' these days lol? my immigrant great grandparents came to canada after a famine in their country, cleared raw forest land by hand and built a house on their own.... yall move right to welfare housing and call it a struggle!!!!! my great grand daddy would be pissin in his pants loool
This video was incredibly well made. 11k views but somehow less than 200 subscribers? Your channel will blow up soon. Keep up the great work
Grew up not far from here , the most under rated and misunderstood part of Toronto .
I grew up in a part of Scarborough where it was rarer to see a kid from a non-immigrant family than the other way around. Kingston and Cliffside...in some ways it was a quiet place, in others...I remember when I was in nursing school I got placed at a "high needs" elementary school in what I was assured was a "low socioeconomic neighborhood" where I could see and work against the social determinants of health we'd all just been educated on...imagine my surprise when this was the shortest commute to a placement NY entire nursing school career. In fact, this school was less than a five minute walk from my high school
Talk about surreal.
I now work as a nurse in children's crisis mental health, near the Jane and Finch area.
Watching this brought up a lot of memories and feelings for me
Glad this is out in the world now. Not quite the life I lived, but the life a ton of my friends did and it's not documented and talked about enough.
Live down the block @ .O.P... 79 to 9Os big up !
Man at 4:20 when he talks about being the man of the house at a young age and being aware of bills and other adult stuff...I feel you 😪. Kids should be able to be kids, it sucks that being in low income situations rob you of this. Then when he goes on to discuss his motivations of being a dad and giving his kids what he didn't. Love to you bro, I feel the same. God bless and I know your kids are blessed!
Thanks for telling these stories!
Shoutout to all the people living off Lawrence ave E
Canada is a great country and Scarborough is an amazing place where people have come from other countries and were given the opportunity to have a life that they wouldn’t have in their home country.
Man this is so inspiring and we'll put together. Thanks for letting us into this world. Mad respect.
lived here in the 80s love the life lessons this place gave me
Jordan, this is a wonderful short documentary. I see you mentioned Willow Park PS and it made me realize that the school is where I met Brandon, Timaj and even Mohammed in the film. Even though I lived on the other block at Orton Park, the struggle was real and this reminds me how far we have come growing up in this neighborhood.
I liked everything about this documentary, especially the cinematography. On how you Show the people and their stories.
Such important stories that were told here. Thank you so much for sharing!
This is a good vid, why is the view count so low? from scarborough
big up yourself issaq! i love this!!!!!! the REAL susan towers
Classic, love the depiction of the neighbourhood. Good to know that its coming from the source.
The opening lines "underrated, misunderstood, overlooked, misrepresented" - damn if that doesn't describe scarborough so well. i live at scarborough golf and lawrence and smile when I saw these familiar places, solaso!!! ❤ all the subjects were beautiful and i loved hearing their stories. not me crying when it was that art show at the end omg. beautiful doc.
So proud, I am an original Susan man from the 80s , would love participate in future projects, I have lots of info if interested
I love this, did not know this community until today. Mi want to go all a dem place now! Community is everything, representation is everything.
This really shows why representation and community stories matter ❤️✊🏾
Excellent Documentary!
I’m so happy to see the real representation of our communities ♥️
3847 Apt 315 my home from roughly '77-80, rough times -- I sure relate to the guy saying as the oldest kid with no dad in the house and trying to help look after things but I was like 9 -- grade 2-5 at Willow Park. What pleases me most about this film is the positive sense of neighbourhood and community that seems to exist today. In my day it was a place to dream of escaping from, but now there are many positive aspects of living there. Love the mural, love the backyard festival/party, --- makes me actually want to go back and visit...
Amazing documentary!
Well done!!
Excellent documentary
I love what they did for the neighborhood I used to live at 3847 Lawrence apt 503 I remember rocky 4 pizza 🍕, the doughnut nook & Flintstones variety store
Incredible Jordan!
Fabulous! I love this so much!
Great work
Terrific. I am going to screen this in my grad course on asset based community development. Thank you!!!
Big up Willow Park, I remember Rocky 4 pizza, Donut knook, Flintsones, Ed Young Fish and Chips
I love home
''Home is where the heart is''
Amazing!!
Orton Park is Susan! 💯
Very Dope!
Good stuff
loved this
there weren't one mirror in the building I lived in but for in my unit.
awww solaso
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West end to the end
I lived on Susan lol
The Scarborough of the past is gone and has been taken over by Indians. Its crazy how fast it was over run, its all you see now. Are country is suppose to be diversity and yet we seem to be just becoming Indian.
You're not lying Scarborough was filled with blacks
Scarborough 30 years ago was a safe white working class community with little crime. What happened?
You just don't know because you're not going around and seeing other places that's why you don't know about Scarborough like that just your people or where you're from Scarborough was always like that
why are ungrateful, lazy criminals considered 'misunderstood' these days lol? my immigrant great grandparents came to canada after a famine in their country, cleared raw forest land by hand and built a house on their own.... yall move right to welfare housing and call it a struggle!!!!! my great grand daddy would be pissin in his pants loool
😂😂😂😂 Fuck dis dess block
Malverns k
Great vid man
I'm from the west but the East is popping to