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5.5 General managers Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory, Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory 8 United Kingdom Hampshire United Kingdom School of Graphic Communications Management. 7.1 Higher education 5.1 Government Some Members of the Family Compact Toronto was originally a term that referred to a indeterminate geographical location having been used on maps dating to the late 17th and early 18th century to refer to the approximate area that includes the present City of Toronto As the name was used to refer to the approximate area several historic settlements adjacent to the City of Toronto have also carried the name Toronto including Toronto Township and Toronto Gore Eventually the name was anchored to the mouth of the Humber River which is where the present City of Toronto is situated the bay serves as the end of the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail portage route from Georgian Bay There are several explanations for the source and meaning of the name "Toronto" One claim is that the origin is the Seneca word Giyando meaning "on the other side" which was the place where the Humber River narrows at the foot of the pass to the village of Teiaiagon Another is that the term is from the Mohawk word tkaronto meaning "where there are trees standing in the water" which originally referred to the Narrows near present-day Orillia where Hurons and other groups drove stakes into the water to create fish weirs French maps from the 1680s to 1760s identify present-day Lake Simcoe as Lac de Taronto the spelling changed to Toronto during the 18th century and the term gradually came to refer to a large region that included the location of the present-day city of Toronto As the portage route grew in use the name became more widely used and was eventually attached to a French trading fort just inland from Lake Ontario on the Humber Confusion over the origin of the name can be attributed to the succession of First Nations peoples who lived in the area including the Neutral Seneca Mohawk Cayuga and Wendat nations From August 1793 to March 1834 the settlement was known as York sharing the same name as the county it was situated in the settlement was renamed when Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe called for the town to be named after the Prince Frederick Duke of York and Albany to differentiate from York in England and New York City the town was known as "Little York" in 1804 settler Angus MacDonald petitioned the Parliament of Upper Canada to restore the original name of the area but this was rejected the town changed its name back to Toronto when it was incorporated into a city Early history. Head of Lake Purchase 1806 - additional lands to the west of Toronto in what is southern part of Mississauga Ontario Oakville and Burlington excluding small tracts covered in Treaty 22 (Mississauga and Oakbille) and Brant Tract Treaty No 18 1797 (Burlington). ! . The Royal Conservatory of Music is a non-profit music education institution headquartered in Toronto Toronto is home to a number of supplementary schools which provides additional educational support for students in mainstream public and private schools the city also hosts a growing number of publicly funded and private English as a Second Language (ESL) schools and is home to as many as 10,000 ESL students at a time These are either visa students primarily from Latin America Asia and Europe or newly arrived landed immigrants and Canadian citizens Schools located in Toronto include:.

. 2 Industrial architecture Durham Region Ajax Green tick Green tick 4.1 Burning of York 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. Home arenas Transportation routes in Ontario evolved from early waterway travel and First Nations paths followed by European explorers Ontario has two major east-west routes both starting from Montreal in the neighbouring province of Quebec the northerly route which was a major fur trade route travels west from Montreal along the Ottawa River then continues northwestward towards Manitoba Major cities on or near the route include Ottawa North Bay Sudbury Sault Ste Marie and Thunder Bay the southerly route which was driven by growth in settlements originated by the United Empire Loyalists and later other European immigrants travels southwest from Montreal along the St Lawrence River Lake Ontario and Lake Erie before entering the United States in Michigan Major cities on or near the route include Kingston Belleville Peterborough Oshawa Toronto Mississauga Kitchener-Waterloo Hamilton London Sarnia and Windsor This route was also heavily used by immigrants to the Midwestern US particularly in the late 19th century Roads! . . . .