Pape Village

Pape Village is a commercial district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located within the neighbourhood of Old East York.

It is a mixed-use shopping street, consisting mainly of small-scale retail, restaurant and personal service uses.

Since much of the existing building stock in Pape Village dates to the 1940s and 1950s, the City of Toronto adopted a new community improvement plan for the district in 2003, in order to assist local businesses to renovate and restore aging commercial façades.

Although Todmorden was never incorporated as a village, the use of the name both colloquially and as a postal address persisted until the 1940s.

The band Rush reference the area in the instrumental "La Villa Strangiato" from the album Hemispheres (1978), in which section VII is subtitled "Danforth & Pape".

Aerial Photograph, 1942
Aerial view of Pape Village, 2023