De Grassi Street is a sidestreet located in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. It was named after Captain Filippo "Philip" De Grassi

Filippo "Philip" De Grassi

Filippo "Philip" De Grassi was an Italian soldier of fortune and influential player in the Rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada.De Grassi was born in Rome, Italy in 1793 and served as a Captain in Napoleon’s French Army during the Peninsular War....

, an Italian

Italy

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-born soldier who emigrated to Canada with his family in 1831 and settled in York, Upper Canada

York, Upper Canada

York was the name of Old Toronto between 1793 and 1834. It was the second capital of Upper Canada.- History :The town was established in 1793 by Governor John Graves Simcoe, with a new 'Fort York' on the site of the last French 'Fort Toronto'...

. He later became a member of the Family Compact

Family Compact

Fully developed after the War of 1812, the Compact lasted until Upper and Lower Canada were united in 1841. In Lower Canada, its equivalent was the Château Clique. The influence of the Family Compact on the government administration at different levels lasted to the 1880s...

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De Grassi Street is located in south Riverdale

Riverdale, Toronto

Riverdale is a large neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by the Don River Valley to the west, Danforth Avenue and Greektown to the north, Jones Avenue, the CN/GO tracks, and Leslieville to the east, and Lake Shore Boulevard to the south....

, and has a residential character. It runs one-way northbound from Queen Street East to Gerrard Street, approximately halfway between Broadview and Carlaw Avenues.

Neighbourhoods

• Queen-Broadview Village — at Queen Street
• East Chinatown — at Gerrard Street.

Attractions

• Jimmie Simpson Park - named after former Toronto mayor James Simpson
  James Simpson (politician)
  James "Jimmy" Simpson was a Canadian trade unionist, printer, journalist and left wing politician in Toronto, Ontario...
  
  
• Bruce Mackey
  Bruce Mackey
  Bruce Mackey served Toronto District School Board as a teacher and librarian at Earl Grey Senior Public School for 25 years.Bruce Mackey opened his home, 98 De Grassi St...
  
   Park - named after a Toronto District School Board educator whose house was used in the Kids of Degrassi Street.
• First Nations Public School
• Eastdale Collegiate Institute

In fiction

The street was made famous by the Degrassi series of television shows for youth. Producers of the show slightly altered the spelling of the street's name. The first Degrassi series, The Kids of Degrassi Street

The Kids of Degrassi Street

The Kids of Degrassi Street is a Canadian children's TV show which aired from 1979 to 1986, and is the first in the Degrassi series, aboutthe lives of a group of children living on Degrassi Street in Toronto, Canada...

on CBC Television

CBC Television

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, was set on the street with some exterior shots in the actual neighbourhood, but was filmed elsewhere:

• 68 Daisy Avenue - Vincent Massey School in Mimico
  Mimico
  The historic Town of Mimico is a neighbourhood in the south-western part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the south-east corner of the former Township of Etobicoke, and was an independent municipality from 1911 to 1967....
  
   - Degrassi Junior High
  Degrassi Junior High
  Degrassi Junior High is a Canadian CBC Television teen drama series that was produced from 1987-1989 as part of the Degrassi series. The show followed the lives of a group of students attending the titular fictional school...
  
  
• Centennial College
  Centennial College (Ontario)
  Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology is the oldest publicly funded community college in Ontario, opened on October 17, 1966 in Scarborough, Ontario....
  
   - 951 Carlaw Ave (Centre for Creative Communication) - Degrassi High
  Degrassi High
  Degrassi High is the third television show in the Degrassi series of teen dramas about the lives of a group of kids living on or near De Grassi Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It first aired from 1989 to 1991 and followed the kids from Kids of Degrassi Street and Degrassi Junior High through...
  
  

The current Degrassi series, Degrassi: The Next Generation

Degrassi: The Next Generation

Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. Degrassi is the fourth fictional series in the Degrassi franchise, and follows The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, and...

, which is largely shot on a studio backlot, is seen on CTV

CTV television network

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 (first run 2001-2009; syndication 2001–present), CTV Two (syndication), and MuchMusic

MuchMusic

MuchMusic is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media. MuchMusic is dedicated to music-related programs, pop and youth culture.-History:...

 (first run 2010–present) in Canada, and on TeenNick

TeenNick

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 (formerly The N; entire run) and MTV

MTV

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 (syndication) in the United States

United States

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