Golden Patty, Patty King

This Story Map is an updated redo of the original Kensington Market: Hidden Histories Project, undertaken with student research for the course CDN355 Digital Media, Digital Makers in Fall 2016. Findings from this initial research contributed to an early ArcGIS geolocative map and an augmented reality iOS app, Kensington Market: Hidden Histories, no longer available (built by No Campfire Required).

Student researchers were the recipients of the Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Youth Achievement, Group, 2018. The project launched July 2017 with features in the CBC  here  and UToronto news,  here . A 2018 Heritage Matters article on the award  here. 

Shout outs and thanks to the research assistants who built and edited the new story maps, Diego Rupolo and Bruce Li, and to the original student researcher, Madison Elsom-Lewis.

This story map is marked as deprecated as links & sources may need updating.

Looking at the brickwork, you can tell that the current building at 187 Baldwin is much newer than the surrounding 2 story Victorian buildings that date back to the late 1800s. The current store, Golden Patty Bakery, has been in operation for over forty? years as one of the go-to take-out food shops in the Market, beloved for its Jamaican meat patties, ackee & saltfish, cocobread, and jerk pork and jerk chicken with rice and peas.

Previously called Patty King Bakery, the owners changed the name in 2014, but kept the favourites on the menu. As another wave of development and business turnover alter Kensington Market, Golden Patty and its close neighbour, the Caribbean Corner at 171 Baldwin, remain as two shops connecting us back to the Market in the 1970s.