. The four Atlantic Provinces are Canada's least populated with New Brunswick the third least populous at 747,101 in 2016 the Atlantic provinces also have higher rural populations New Brunswick was largely rural until 1951; since then the rural-urban split has been roughly even. Population density in the Maritimes is above average among Canadian provinces which reflects their small size and the fact that they do not possess large unpopulated hinterlands as do the other seven provinces and three territories New Brunswick's 107 municipalities cover 8.6% of the province's land mass but are home to 65.3% of its population the three major urban areas are in the south of the province and are Greater Moncton population 126,424 Greater Saint John population 122,389 and Greater Fredericton population 85,688 Ethnicity and language, Core Toronto 2,731,571 Main article: Great Lakes passenger steamers Year-by-year 1951 4,597,542 +21.4% 6.1 Sports Extended Kawartha Lakes 75,423. 7 Government 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. .
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