. . . Perth 14 Notes This school is allowing children to skip class so that they can pray during school hours in a secular public school system all the while instilling the misconceived notion that menstruating girls are somehow unclean and should be pushed to the back of the figurative bus which in this case is represented by the cafeteria turned makeshift mosque Responding to criticism local school board trustee Gerri Gershon said "This is so sad. this is part of our religious accommodation policy" Culture of fear, Jewish 2 Youth gangs Wine grapes growing in the Niagara Peninsula a major Canadian wine region Common types of farms reported in the 2001 census include those for cattle small grains and dairy the fruit- and grape-growing industry is primarily on the Niagara Peninsula and along Lake Erie where tobacco farms are also situated Market vegetables grow in the rich soils of the Holland Marsh near Newmarket the area near Windsor is also very fertile the Heinz plant in Leamington was taken over in these autumn of 2013 by Warren Buffett and a Brazilian partner following which it put 740 people out of work. Government subsidies followed shortly; Premier Kathleen Wynne offered CAD$200,000 to cushion the blow and promised that another processed-food operator would soon be found on December 10 2013 Kellogg's announced layoffs for more than 509 workers at a cereal manufacture plant in London. Kellogg's plans to relocate jobs to Thailand The area defined as the Corn Belt covers much of the southwestern area of the province extending as far north as close to Goderich but corn and soy are grown throughout the southern portion of the province Apple orchards are a common sight along the southern shore of Nottawasaga Bay (part of Georgian Bay) near Collingwood and along the northern shore of Lake Ontario near Cobourg Tobacco production centred in Norfolk County has decreased allowing an increase in alternative crops such as hazelnuts and ginseng the Ontario origins of Massey Ferguson once one of the largest farm-implement manufacturers in the world indicate the importance agriculture once[citation needed] had to the Canadian economy A sign that marks the Ottawa Greenbelt an initiative that aims to protect the surrounding farmland and limit urban sprawl Southern Ontario's limited supply of agricultural land is going out of production at an increasing rate Urban sprawl and farmland severances contribute to the loss of thousands of acres of productive agricultural land in Ontario each year Over 2,000 farms and 150,000 acres (61,000 ha) of farmland in the GTA alone were lost to production in the two decades between 1976 and 1996 This loss represented approximately 18%" of Ontario's Class 1 farmland being converted to urban purposes in addition increasing rural severances provide ever-greater interference with agricultural production in an effort to protect the farmland and green spaces of Greater Toronto and the National Capital Region the Government of Ontario introduced greenbelts around the Golden Horseshoe and Ottawa limiting urban development in these areas Energy; . .
The Great Toronto Fire of 1904 destroyed a large section of downtown Toronto but the city was quickly rebuilt the fire caused more than $10 million in damage and resulted in more stringent fire safety laws and expansion of the city's fire department The city received new European immigrant groups beginning in the late 19th century into the early 20th century particularly Germans French Italians and Jews from various parts of Eastern Europe They were soon followed by Russians Poles and other Eastern European nations in addition to Chinese entering from the West As the Irish before them many of these migrants lived in overcrowded shanty-type slums such as "the Ward" which was centred on Bay Street now the heart of the country's Financial District By 1934 the Toronto Stock Exchange emerged as the country's largest stock exchange As new migrants began to prosper they moved to better housing in other areas in what is now understood to be succession waves of settlement Despite its fast-paced growth by the 1920s Toronto's population and economic importance in Canada remained second to the much longer established Montreal Quebec However by 1934 the Toronto Stock Exchange had become the largest in the country In 1954 the City of Toronto and 12 surrounding municipalities were federated into a regional government known as Metropolitan Toronto the postwar boom had resulted in rapid suburban development and it was believed a coordinated land-use strategy and shared services would provide greater efficiency for the region the metropolitan government began to manage services that crossed municipal boundaries including highways police services water and public transit In that year a half-century after the Great Fire of 1904 disaster struck the city again when Hurricane Hazel brought intense winds and flash flooding in the Toronto area 81 people were killed nearly 1,900 families were left homeless and the hurricane caused more than CA$25 million in damage In 1967 the seven smallest municipalities of Metropolitan Toronto were merged with larger neighbours resulting in a six-municipality configuration that included the former city of Toronto and the surrounding municipalities of East York Etobicoke North York Scarborough and York Construction of First Canadian Place the operational headquarters of the Bank of Montreal in 1975 During the 1970s several Canadian financial institutions moved to Toronto In the decades after World War II refugees from war-torn Europe and Chinese job-seekers arrived as well as construction labourers particularly from Italy and Portugal Toronto's population grew to more than one million in 1951 when large-scale suburbanization began and doubled to two million by 1971 Following the elimination of racially based immigration policies by the late 1960s Toronto became a destination for immigrants from all parts of the world By the 1980s Toronto had surpassed Montreal as Canada's most populous city and chief economic hub During this time in part owing to the political uncertainty raised by the resurgence of the Quebec sovereignty movement many national and multinational corporations moved their head offices from Montreal to Toronto and Western Canadian cities In 1998 the Conservative provincial government led by Mike Harris dissolved the metropolitan government despite vigorous opposition from the component municipalities and overwhelming rejection in a municipal plebiscite All six municipalities were amalgamated into a single municipality creating the current City of Toronto the successor of the old City of Toronto North York mayor Mel Lastman became the first "megacity" mayor and the 62nd Mayor of Toronto John Tory is the current mayor 21st century, Municipality 2001 2006 2011 2016 2014 58 27 177 242 University of Toronto Mississauga (Mississauga) Main article: Ottawa River timber trade! 4 Notable people This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (July 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message). Painting Depicting the Death of Issac Brock During the War of 1812 with the United States Upper Canada was the chief target of the Americans since it was weakly defended and populated largely by American immigrants However division in the United States over the war a lackluster American militia the incompetence of American military commanders and swift and decisive action by the British commander Sir Isaac Brock kept Upper Canada part of British North America Detroit was captured by the British on 6 August 1812 the Michigan Territory was held under British control until it was abandoned in 1813 the Americans won the decisive Battle of Lake Erie (10 September 1813) and forced the British to retreat from the western areas on the retreat they were intercepted at the Battle of the Thames (5 October 1813) and destroyed in a major American victory that killed Tecumseh and broke the power of Britain's Indian allies Major battles fought on territory in Upper Canada included:, History Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory, 2.7 Continuing Education London Lightning Basketball NBLC London Budweiser Gardens! Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory 8 Culture Toronto has numerous hills and valleys that were carved out during the last Ice Age; the ravines are largely undeveloped primarily as the result of Hurricane Hazel in 1954 Both Dufferin Street and Caledonia Road between Davenport Road and Eglinton Avenue run across numerous steep hills and valleys Vaughan Road runs parallel to the buried Castle Frank Brook The Don River is categorized as an underfit river given that the river is too small for its much wider and deeper valley the same is true for the Humber River and the Rouge River Grenadier Pond in High Park is the largest body of water fully within Toronto's city limits During the winter it becomes a natural skating rink See also. . Airport rail link 1970, Assistant coach Nick Theslof, Organized crime Prior to the arrival of the Europeans the region was inhabited by Algonquian (Ojibwe Cree and Algonquin) in the northern/western portions and Iroquois and Wyandot (Huron) people more in the south/east. During the 17th century the Algonquians and Hurons fought the Beaver Wars against the Iroquois European contact!
Canadian Red Cross