Hugh Garner

Photos and transcription by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted May, 2011

Here, in a garden next to a vehicular tunnel at the Hugh Garner Housing Co-operative, 550 Ontario Street, is a Cabbagetown People plaque erected by the Cabbagetown Preservation Association. As well, further information appears on a plaque erected as part of the Cabbagetown People Plaque Project just inside the entrance to Riverdale Park at the southeast corner of Winchester and Sumach Streets. Here's what both plaques say about Hugh Garner:

Plaque coordinates: 43.666402 -79.372077

Author and Witness to Depression Era Cabbagetown 1913-1979

When he was 6 years old, Hugh Garner's parents emigrated to Canada from Yorkshire, England. He grew up in Cabbagetown and began working in publishing at the Toronto Star newspaper as a copy boy. As a Canadian writer, his focus was on working class Ontario and the best known of his realistic novels is Cabbagetown (1950). In 1963 Hugh Garner won Canada's Governor General's Literary Award for Hugh Garner's Best Stories, a collection of his short stories. He is known for his hard-living ways, which he lived to the end.

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Plaque coordinates: 43.66699 -79.36282

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