The First Chinatown of Toronto developed between 1900 and 1925 along York Street and Elizabeth Street between Queen and Dundas Streets. Situated in what was then known as "The Ward", one of the city's largest slum areas for incoming immigrants, the area was expropriated and razed in 1955, despite myriad protests, to make way for Toronto New City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square, with only one-third of this original Chinatown left south of Dundas Street. More than three-quarters of the neighbourhood was commandeered as a result of the forced dispossession.