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The Americans occupied the town for nearly two weeks They sent the captured military stores including 20 artillery pieces, away on May 2 but were then penned in York harbour by a gale Chauncey's vessels were so overcrowded with troops that only half of them could go below decks to escape the rain at any time. They left York on May 8 departing for the Niagara peninsula. where they required several weeks to recuperate Sheaffe's troops endured an equally miserable fourteen-day retreat overland to Kingston Around 300 to 400 Iroquois warriors assembled and marched towards York shortly after the battle to launch an attack on the American garrison. They were only 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of York in present day Burlington when they learned that the Americans had departed York and the expedition was called off Effects on the war. Hotel Gresham Palace 7.3 Municipal politics The Royal Alexandra Theatre was completed in 1909 and is an example of Beaux-Arts style of architecture common for theatres in early 20th century British Empire The city hosts a number of music theatres and venues most notably Roy Thomson Hall Designed by Canadian architects Arthur Erickson and Mathers and Haldenby the 2630-seat Roy Thomson Hall opened in 1982 as the primary home of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra the previous home of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Massey Hall is the oldest musical theatre venue in Toronto and remains in operation today in June 2006 the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts opened as the new home of the Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet of Canada Designed by Diamond + Schmitt the 2,000 seat opera house has a European-style tiered horseshoe-shaped auditorium It is the first structure in Canada specifically designed to house both opera and ballet with customized acoustics. Other musical theatres in Toronto include the Danforth Music Hall the Opera House and the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre The city also holds a number of live performance theatres including the Royal Alexandra Theatre the oldest live performance theatre in North America the Royal Alexandra's design was inspired by turn-of-the-century beaux-arts architectural styles typical of British theatres Other notable live performance venues include Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres Ed Mirvish Theatre Bathurst Street Theatre CAA Theatre Princess of Wales Theatre and the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Sports venues. 6 References See also: Transportation in Toronto The Great Lakes Circle Tour and Seaway Trail are designated scenic road systems connecting all of the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence River. As the Seaway Trail is posted on the U.S side only Lake Ontario is the only of the five Great Lakes to have no posted bi-national circle tour In the 1800s there were reports of an alleged creature similar to the so-called Loch Ness Monster being sighted in the lake the creature is described as large with a long neck green in colour and generally causes a break in the surface waves Swims across the lake. Climate data for Bowmanville (Clarington) (1981-2010) Winter scene on Toronto Bay in 1835, Ryerson logo on Maple Leaf Gardens Reconstruction relief and rehabilitation 249.0 282.5 338.1 376.5 422.0 1,668.2 2 Government. . St Catharines-Niagara 406,074 St Michael's Hospital - Art Deco Bond Street entrance, Main articles: Mennonite Society of Friends (Upper Canada) and the Children of Peace! ; Streetcar operated by the Toronto Railway Company c 1895 5.1.5 Freed slaves.

. Modernist apartment towers of St James Town based on Le Corbusier's "towers in the park" concept The postwar years also saw the rise of apartment style housing in the 1960s and 1970s this kind of housing was mostly focused on low to middle income residents Beginning in the 1950s the city bulldozed older lower income neighbourhoods replacing them with housing projects ultimately destroying large sections of Victorian housing the earliest and most notorious example of such projects was Regent Park it replaced a large portion of Cabbagetown with a series of low-rise and high-rise buildings that quickly became crime-ridden and even more depressed than the neighbourhood it replaced in later years similar projects such as Moss Park and Alexandra Park were less disastrous but also far from successful Canada's densest community St James Town was built in this era as a high-rise community of private and public housing in separate towers also replacing a Victorian neighbourhood These patterns changed dramatically beginning in the 1970s and gentrification began transforming once poor neighbourhoods such as Cabbagetown into some of the city's most popular and expensive real estate Outside of the core even new neighbourhoods experienced significant high-rise apartment building construction as builders embraced the "towers in the park" design invented by Le Corbusier the towers were built further from the sidewalk leaving room on the property around the edifice for parking lawns trees and other landscaping They are typically simple brick-clad high-rise buildings with rectangular footprints and little ornamentation other than repeating series of balconies for each apartment However some apartment buildings from this era utilize less conventional designs in the "tower in the park" format such as the Prince Arthur Towers Jane-Exbury Towers and 44 Walmer Road designed by Uno Prii In 1972 the Canadian tax code was radically altered making rental housing much less attractive to investors At the same time deindustrialization opened a number of new areas to residential development the new projects took the form of condominiums This form of housing was introduced in the province's Condominium Act in the 1960s but it was not until the 1980s that condos become very popular An initial condo boom started in 1986 but the market collapsed in the late 1980s and early 1990s recession and many investors were badly mauled In 1995 condo prices were still 30% below the earlier highs. That year a new boom began in Toronto that has continued to this day An unprecedented number of new projects have been built in Toronto in 2000 Condo Life magazine listed 152 separate projects underway within the city of Toronto by 2007 the number of projects in the GTA had reached 247 This development has been concentrated in the downtown core especially in the former industrial areas just outside the central business district the largest such project is CityPlace a cluster of condo towers on former railway lands by the lake shore This $2 billion project will eventually consist of 20 different towers housing some 12,000 people. Transit-oriented developments are also common in Toronto such as at North York Centre and Sheppard East along the namesake subway line and Sheppard West along the subway line's future westward extension Commercial architecture. .