Hot Pots & Parking Lots: Immigrant Food Businesses in Agincourt

Hot Pot & Parking Lots: Immigrant Food Businesses in Agincourt examines the overlapping and complicated relationship between food, migration, and settlement through historical research and the collection of oral histories from small food-related business owners.

Food fulfills an emotional and social connection for humans; it creates bonds between families, neighbourhoods, and cities. The subject of this exhibition is the migration history of Agincourt as told through the changing character of food traditions, businesses, and cultures in the area.

This exhibition will offer insight into how Agincourt transformed from an Indigenous gathering-place, to a nineteenth-century colonial agro-township, into a Toronto suburb well-known for its vibrant Asian foodway.