. Hotel George V Toronto is home to the Toronto Maple Leafs one of the National Hockey League's Original Six clubs and has also served as home to the Hockey Hall of Fame since 1958 the city had a rich history of ice hockey championships Along with the Maple Leafs' 13 Stanley Cup titles the Toronto Marlboros and St Michael's College School-based Ontario Hockey League teams combined have won a record 12 Memorial Cup titles the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League also play in Toronto at Coca-Cola Coliseum and are the farm team for the Maple Leafs The Toronto Blue Jays host the Detroit Tigers at the Rogers Centre in April 2008 The city is home to the Toronto Blue Jays professional baseball team of Major League Baseball (MLB) the team has won two World Series titles (1992 1993) the Blue Jays play their home games at the Rogers Centre in the downtown core Toronto has a long history of minor-league professional baseball dating back to the 1800s culminating in the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team whose owner first proposed an MLB team for Toronto The Toronto Raptors entered the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1995 and have since earned eleven playoff spots and five Atlantic Division titles in 24 seasons They won their inaugural NBA title in 2019 the Raptors are the only NBA team with their own television channel NBA TV Canada They and the Maple Leafs play their home games at the Scotiabank Arena in 2016 Toronto hosted the 65th NBA All-Star game the first to be held outside the United States The city is represented in the Canadian Football League by the Toronto Argonauts who have won 17 Grey Cup titles and play in BMO Field Toronto is represented in Major League Soccer by the Toronto FC who have won six Canadian Championship titles as well as the MLS Cup in 2017 They share BMO Field with the Toronto Argonauts Toronto has a high level of participation in soccer across the city at several smaller stadiums and fields Toronto FC entered the league as an expansion team BMO Field is an outdoor stadium that is home to the CFL's Toronto Argonauts and MLS's Toronto FC The Toronto Rock is the city's National Lacrosse League team They won five National Lacrosse League Cup titles in seven years in the late 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century appearing in an NLL record five straight championship games from 1999 to 2003 and are first all-time in the number of Champion's Cups won the Rock share the Scotiabank Arena with the Maple Leafs and the Raptors Toronto has hosted several National Football League exhibition games at the Rogers Centre Ted Rogers leased the Buffalo Bills from Ralph Wilson for the purposes of having the Bills play eight home games in the city between 2008 and 2013 The Toronto Wolfpack became Canada's first professional rugby league team and the world's first transatlantic professional sports team when they began play in the Rugby Football League's League One competition in 2017 Toronto is home to the Toronto Rush a semi-professional ultimate team that competes in the American Ultimate Disc League (AUDL). Ultimate (disc) in Canada has its beginning roots in Toronto with 3300 players competing annually in the Toronto Ultimate Club (League) Collegiate sports! . . Stoney Creek 1 Etymology In the 1963 NHL Amateur Draft the NHL's inaugural draft the Maple Leafs selected Walt McKechnie a centre from the London Nationals with their first pick sixth overall. Two Maple Leafs captains were obtained through the draft Darryl Sittler in the 1970 draft; as well as Wendel Clark in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft the Maple Leafs have drafted two players with a first overall draft pick; Clark in the 1985 draft and Auston Matthews in the 2016 draft. Rasmus Sandin was the most recent player selected by the Maple Leafs in the first round using the twenty-ninth overall pick at the 2018 draft Team and league honours. . . .
HMS Sir Issac Brock being built in York Both sides engaged in building freshwater fleets in an effort to gain naval supremacy in Lake Ontario York the capital of Upper Canada stood on the north shore of Lake Ontario During the War of 1812 the lake was both the front line between Upper Canada and the United States and served as the principal British supply line from Quebec to the various forces and outposts to the west At the start of the war the British had a small naval force the Provincial Marine with which they seized control of the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie This was made it possible because of Major General Isaac Brock who led British forces in Upper Canada to several important victories in 1812 by shifting his small force rapidly between threatened points to defeat disjointed American attacks individually The United States Navy appointed Commodore Isaac Chauncey to regain control of the lakes He created a squadron of fighting ships at Sackett's Harbor New York by purchasing and arming several lake schooners and laying down new purpose-built fighting vessels However no decisive action was possible before the onset of winter during which the ships of both sides were confined to harbour by ice to match Chauncey's shipbuilding efforts the British laid down the sloop of war Wolfe at Kingston; and HMS Sir Isaac Brock at York Naval Shipyards Prelude, 54 5-2, Timber Fair Haven There are several private elementary and secondary religious institutions based in Toronto in addition there are two privately managed religious school boards that operate schools in Toronto They include the Centre for Jewish Education and the Toronto Adventist District School Board. . . While English is the predominant language spoken by Torontonians many other languages have considerable numbers of local speakers the varieties of Chinese and Italian are the second and third most widely spoken languages at work. Despite Canada's official bilingualism while 9.7% of Ontario's Francophones live in Toronto only 0.6% of the population reported French as a singular language spoken most often at home; meanwhile 64% reported speaking predominantly English only and 28.3% primarily used a non-official language; 7.1% reported commonly speaking multiple languages at home the city's 9-1-1 emergency services are equipped to respond in over 150 languages Government; .
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