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Black and white pen and ink drawing on vellum. The grocery store that was once there has now be…
234 Augusta Ave. (Dolce Gelato) [60b]
Black and white pen and ink drawing on vellum. The grocery store that was once there has now been replaced with a Dolce Gelato store. The store has since been renovated so that the building's doors and windows stretch out to where the produce displays and awnings used to be. A sign above the building's awning reads "DOLCE" in capital letters and "gelato" in lowercase letters. A person in the foreground rummages through the recycling and garbage bins in front of Dolce Gelato with a cart in tow. On the sidewalk in front of the bins is an electrical pole with graffiti and a flyer that reads "Stop Ford Vote" as well as three signs visible: the lowest in the upper third of the image is a no entry symbol, above this a one-way traffic sign pointing left, above this a street sign that reads "Nassau St."

234 Augusta Ave. (Dolce Gelato) [60b]

Date2019
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  • 234 Augusta Ave. (Dolce Gelato) [60b]
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Illustrated by Daniel Innes for the book Denison Avenue (ECW, 2023). Denison Avenue by Christina Wong and Daniel Innes is a moving story about aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders set in Toronto’s gentrifying Kensington Market and Chinatown, told in illustration and fiction.

This image (234 Augusta Ave. (Dolce Gelato) [60b]) and 234 Augusta Ave. (Dolce Gelato) [60a] were the first drawings made for the book.

Pen and ink drawing on vellum.

The grocery store has been replaced with a Dolce Gelato store. The store has since been renovated so that the building's doors and windows stretch out to where the produce displays and awnings used to be. A person in the foreground rummages through the recycling and garbage bins in front of Dolce Gelato with a cart in tow.



GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
GeographyNeighbourhoodKensington-Grange
GeographyNorth-south streetAugusta Avenue
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
DimensionsImage size (half page): 11.8 cm x 16.2 cm (4 5/8 in. x 6 3/8 in.)
Language
ProvenancePurchased from The Beguiling as part of the Denison Avenue Charity Art Sale, March 1-31, 2025. Sales of 80 pages of the book’s original artwork went to benefit Fort York Food Bank.



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Copyright HolderInnes, Daniel
Object Number2025-6-4 Cab