6 communities compared — 63 shuls, 4 kosher stores and restaurants, 4 day schools and 6 mikvaos on the map.
Canada's Orthodox community is concentrated in its two largest cities. In Toronto, it runs along the Bathurst Street corridor — Thornhill to the north, with the highest concentration of Jewish residents in the country, and Bathurst Manor and Clanton Park, the original Orthodox neighbourhood, further south.
In Montreal, the Modern Orthodox, yeshivish and Sephardic community centers on Côte-Saint-Luc and Hampstead, and the Chasidic kehillos on Outremont and Mile End. Montreal is generally less expensive than Toronto, and its large French-speaking Sephardic community gives it a character of its own.
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| Bathurst & Lawrence, Toronto Toronto | 21 | · | 1 | 2 | $$$ | Moving guide → | |
| Côte-Saint-Luc / Hampstead, Montreal Montreal | 10 | · | · | · | $$–$$$ | Moving guide → | |
| Thornhill Toronto | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | $$$ | Moving guide → | |
| Bathurst Manor / Clanton Park, Toronto Toronto | 9 | · | 1 | 1 | $$–$$$ | Moving guide → | |
| Outremont / Mile End, Montreal Montreal | 9 | · | · | · | $$–$$$ | ||
| Bathurst & Steeles, Toronto Toronto | 4 | · | · | 1 | $$–$$$ |
The centre of Orthodox life inside the City of Toronto — Bathurst Street between Glencairn and Wilson packs more than twenty shuls, from Shaarei Shomayim and the Agudah to chassidish shtieblach and Sephardic minyanim, with mikvaos and girls' schools a short walk from the street.
Montreal's main Orthodox community — Beth Israel Beth Aaron and Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem in Côte-Saint-Luc, the Adath and Nahar Shalom in Hampstead, a large French-speaking Sephardic community, and the Montreal Grand Eruv.
Canada's most Orthodox-dense community — Thornhill's Bathurst Street corridor packs world-class shuls across every denomination, Canada's largest kosher supermarket, multiple mikvaot, and strong Jewish day schools into a quieter suburban setting 25 minutes from downtown Toronto.
Toronto's original Orthodox neighbourhood — the established North York community around Clanton Park and Bathurst Manor, more walkable, more central and less expensive than Thornhill to its north.
Montreal's Chasidic community — Satmar, Belz, Vizhnitz, Bobov, Skver, Munkatch, Tosh and more, in the streets of Outremont and Mile End around Hutchison, Jeanne-Mance and Van Horne.
The northern edge of the City of Toronto, between Bathurst Manor and Thornhill — B'nai Torah and its mikvah on Patricia Avenue, Minyan Sepharad, the Moroccan congregation Bet Yoseph and the JRCC, among condos and older houses a short walk from the Steeles city line.
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ShulMap maps 6 Orthodox communities in Canada: Bathurst & Lawrence, Côte-Saint-Luc, Thornhill, Bathurst Manor, Outremont and Bathurst & Steeles. Together they have 63 shuls on the map, plus 4 kosher stores and restaurants, 4 day schools and 6 mikvaos. Each has its own page with a walkable shul map.
Bathurst & Lawrence has the most on ShulMap, with 21 mapped, followed by Côte-Saint-Luc (10) and Thornhill (10). Shul count is a rough guide to community size, not to fit — a smaller community with a daily minyan near housing you can afford may suit a family better than a bigger one.
ShulMap has mikvaos mapped in Bathurst & Lawrence, Thornhill, Bathurst Manor and Bathurst & Steeles. Day schools are mapped in Bathurst & Lawrence, Thornhill and Bathurst Manor. A community without one on the map may still have one we have not added yet, and families commonly use institutions in a neighboring community.
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