The Junction is a former, revitalized/gentrified area in Western Toronto bounded by St. Clair West and Dundas and Runnymede and Keele which used to be home to the stockyards, rubber manufacturing and the the railways that flow through it. Located inside around this area were chemical and manufacturing plants, abandoned art deco infrastructure, buried creeks and now big box stores and malls. Companies such as Canada Packers, Bunge, Sherwin Williams, NRI, Various meat packers, Heinzman's Piano , Viceroy, General Electric, and Hamilton Gear all used to operate here until closures started in the mid 1980s and intensified before 2010.

Many people lost their jobs with closures and I started documenting the area in 2005 when I got my first digital camera. Most of the industry was gone by 2011 and the Stockyards from West Toronto were already demolished in the late 90s. It's a really interesting neighbourhood where you can easily walk in and still see the passage of time. I remember seeing the cattle here in the early 90s and now it just seems like an extension of High Park. It's the best neighbourhood in Toronto to spend some time in if you want to see the city as it was before the 2000's, with more local industry that built Toronto now occupied with small shops on Dundas as well as the usual big box stores you find typically in revitalized industrial areas. There are images from other areas just outside the Junction included here as industry extended down to Bloor and West to Scarlett road in Etobicoke since the entire area was industrial only two decades ago.