Chinese in Niagara Falls ON

During my June 2017 visit to Niagara Falls, I was not successful in locating this tidbit from my childhood history: Park Street & Erie Avenue declared a slum area . I had scanned several years of microfilmed issues of the Niagara Falls Review but limited time and the tedium of the task defeated me. Had old issues of the Review been digitized instead of just microfilmed and stored at the Niagara Falls Public Library, I’d be mining those electronic records instead of just my memory for this post. As an adult, I have an informed understanding that any historic Chinatown in Canada occupied impoverished places; thus forming the undesirable, dark fringes of society. But as a child, I was shocked and embarrassed to learn that I lived in a slum. I wish I knew with certainty when this declaration was made. I must have been in grade 3, or possibly 4. That would make it 1960-1961. At the time, I don’t think I really knew what slum meant. I might have looked it up in m...