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. Main article: Union Pearson Express, The western end of Lake Ontario the region takes its name from the horseshoe shape formed from the Burlington Heights The horseshoe part of the region's name is derived from the characteristic horseshoe shape of the west end of Lake Ontario with Cootes Paradise between Burlington and Hamilton roughly positioned in the centre the golden part is historically attributed to the region's wealth and prosperity according to the Canadian Oxford Dictionary The phrase Golden Horseshoe was first used by Westinghouse Electric Corporation president Herbert H Rogge in a speech to the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce on January 12 1954:, 0.6% Finals Mexico Guadalajara Goalkeeper coach Jon Conway. . ; . 4 Geography 6 Demographics, Victorian-era Bay-and-gable houses are a distinct architectural style of residence that is ubiquitous throughout the older neighbourhoods of Toronto The pre-amalgamation City of Toronto covers the area generally known as downtown and also older neighbourhoods to the east west and north of downtown It is the most densely populated part of the city the Financial District contains the First Canadian Place Toronto-Dominion Centre Scotia Plaza Royal Bank Plaza Commerce Court and Brookfield Place This area includes among others the neighbourhoods of St James Town Garden District St Lawrence Corktown and Church and Wellesley From that point the Toronto skyline extends northward along Yonge Street Old Toronto is also home to many historically wealthy residential enclaves such as Yorkville Rosedale the Annex Forest Hill Lawrence Park Lytton Park Deer Park Moore Park and Casa Loma most stretching away from downtown to the north East and west of downtown neighbourhoods such as Kensington Market Chinatown Leslieville Cabbagetown and Riverdale are home to bustling commercial and cultural areas as well as communities of artists with studio lofts with many middle- and upper-class professionals Other neighbourhoods in the central city retain an ethnic identity including two smaller Chinatowns the Greektown area Little Italy Portugal Village and Little India along with others Suburbs, MLS Cup MVP 5 Players and personnel Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory; . 68 124 Crescent School Depiction of the Battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812 Upper Canada was an active theatre of operation during the conflict American troops in the War of 1812 invaded Upper Canada across the Niagara River and the Detroit River but were defeated and pushed back by the British Canadian fencibles and militias and First Nations warriors However the Americans eventually gained control of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario the 1813 Battle of York saw American troops defeat the garrison at the Upper Canada capital of York the Americans looted the town and burned the Upper Canada Parliament Buildings during their brief occupation the British would burn the American capital of Washington D.C in 1814 After the War of 1812 relative stability allowed for increasing numbers of immigrants to arrive from Europe rather than from the United States as was the case in the previous decades this immigration shift was encouraged by the colonial leaders Despite affordable and often free land many arriving newcomers mostly from Britain and Ireland found frontier life with the harsh climate difficult and some of those with the means eventually returned home or went south However population growth far exceeded emigration in the following decades it was a mostly agrarian-based society but canal projects and a new network of plank roads spurred greater trade within the colony and with the United States thereby improving previously damaged relations over time Meanwhile Ontario's numerous waterways aided travel and transportation into the interior and supplied water power for development As the population increased so did the industries and transportation networks which in turn led to further development By the end of the century Ontario vied with Quebec as the nation's leader in terms of growth in population industry arts and communications In 1837 an armed insurrection was fought in the colony before being crushed by British authorities and Canadian volunteer units Unrest in the colony began to chafe against the aristocratic Family Compact who governed while benefiting economically from the region's resources and who did not allow elected bodies power This resentment spurred republican ideals and sowed the seeds for early Canadian nationalism Accordingly rebellion in favour of responsible government rose in both regions; Louis-Joseph Papineau led the Lower Canada Rebellion and William Lyon Mackenzie first Toronto mayor, led the Upper Canada Rebellion in Upper Canada the rebellion was quickly a failure William Lyon Mackenzie escaped to the United States where he declared the Republic of Canada on Navy Island on the Niagara River Canada West.

; To finance operations the municipality levied property taxes in 1850 Toronto also started levying income taxes. Toronto levied personal income taxes until 1936 and corporate income taxes until 1944 Until 1914 Toronto grew by annexing neighbouring municipalities such as Parkdale and Seaton Village After 1914 Toronto stopped annexing bordering municipalities although some municipalities overwhelmed by growth requested it After World War II an extensive group of suburban villages and townships surrounded Toronto Change to the legal structure came in 1954 with the creation of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto (known more popularly as "Metro") in 1954 This new regional government which encompassed Toronto and the smaller communities of East York Etobicoke Forest Hill Leaside Long Branch Mimico New Toronto North York Scarborough Swansea Weston and York was created by the Government of Ontario to support suburban growth This new municipality could borrow money on its own for capital projects and it received taxes from all municipalities including Toronto which meant that the Toronto tax base was now available to support the suburban growth the new regional government built highways water systems and public transit while the thirteen townships villages towns and cities continued to provide some local services to their residents to manage the yearly upkeep of the new infrastructure the new regional government levied its own property tax collected by the local municipalities On January 1 1967 several of the smaller municipalities were amalgamated with larger ones reducing their number to six Forest Hill and Swansea became part of Toronto; Long Branch Mimico and New Toronto joined Etobicoke; Weston merged with York; and Leaside amalgamated with East York This arrangement lasted until 1998 when the regional level of government was abolished and Etobicoke North York East York York and Scarborough were amalgamated into Toronto the "megacity" Mel Lastman the long-time mayor of North York before the amalgamation was the first mayor (62nd overall) of the new "megacity" of Toronto which is the successor of the previous City of Toronto Existing by-laws of the individual municipalities were retained until such time that new citywide by-laws could be written and enacted New citywide by-laws have been enacted although many of the individual differences were continued applying only to the districts where the by-laws applied such as winter sidewalk clearing and garbage pickup the existing city halls of the various municipalities were retained by the new corporation the City of York's civic centre became a court office the existing 1965 City Hall of Toronto became the city hall of the new megacity while the "city hall" of the Metro government is used as municipal office space The census metropolitan areas listed below are within the Greater Golden Horseshoe Not all land within the Greater Golden Horseshoe is part of a Census Metropolitan Area; some Census Metropolitan Areas are partly in the Golden Horseshoe and partly outside it Toronto 5,928,040, Reconstruction relief and rehabilitation 249.0 282.5 338.1 376.5 422.0 1,668.2 10 See also, Many British and French-Canadian fur traders married First Nations and Inuit women from the Cree Ojibwa or Saulteaux First Nations the majority of these fur traders were Scottish and French and were Catholic Canadiens/French-Canadians. 2 Budget Car alarm systems are triggered by breaking and entry into the vehicle Microdot identification tags allow individual parts of a vehicle to be identified Signs on windows warning of other deterrents sometimes as a bluff VIN etching may reduce the resale value of parts or increase risk of resale Recovery of stolen vehicles, 22 Canada Ben Harpur D L 24 2019 Hamilton Ontario Thomas Talbot emigrated in 1791 where he became personal secretary to John Graves Simcoe Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada Talbot convinced the government to allow him to implement a land settlement scheme of 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) in Elgin County in the townships of Dunwich and Aldborough in 1803. According to his government agreement he was entitled to 200 acres (80 ha) for every settler who received 50 acres (20 ha); in this way he gained an estate of 20,000 acres (8,000 ha) Talbot's administration was regarded as despotic He was infamous for registering settlers' names on the local settlement map in pencil and if displeased erasing their entry Talbot's abuse of power was a contributing factor in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 Crown and Clergy reserves, Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory. . . 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! Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory When the Toronto Public School Board was first created elementary or common schools in the city did not have dedicated buildings but instead "the thousand-odd children who were registered as common school pupils were accommodated in rented premises--a dozen or so small halls and houses designated by numbers." This changed shortly after the election of the first board when six schools identical in architecture were built one in each ward of the city More schools with distinct designs were built over the coming decades Some of these original schools are listed in the order of their construction below:.