13 Further reading The land grant policy changed after 1825 as the Upper Canadian administration faced a financial crisis that would otherwise require raising local taxes thereby making it more dependent on a local elected legislature the Upper Canadian state ended its policy of granting land to "unofficial" settlers and implemented a broad plan of revenue-generating sales the Crown replaced its old policy of land grants to ordinary settlers in newly opened districts with land sales by auction it also passed legislation that allowed the auctioning of previously granted land for payment of back-taxes Canada Company. View of Chinatown on Spadina Avenue The city's population grew by 4% (96,073 residents) between 1996 and 2001 1% (21,787 residents) between 2001 and 2006 4.3% (111,779 residents) between 2006 and 2011 and 4.5% (116,511) between 2011 and 2016 in 2016 persons aged 14 years and under made up 14.5% of the population and those aged 65 years and over made up 15.6% the median age was 39.3 years the city's gender population is 48% male and 52% female. Women outnumber men in all age groups 15 and older In 2016 foreign-born persons made up 47% of the population, compared to 49.9% in 2006. According to the United Nations Development Programme Toronto has the second-highest percentage of constant foreign-born population among world cities after Miami Florida While Miami's foreign-born population has traditionally consisted primarily of Cubans and other Latin Americans no single nationality or culture dominates Toronto's immigrant population placing it among the most diverse cities in the world in 2010 it was estimated over 100,000 immigrants arrive in the Greater Toronto Area each year Ethnicity, 5.5 General managers Stoney Creek Toronto Raptors Basketball NBA Toronto Scotiabank Arena See also: List of oldest buildings and structures in Toronto and List of tallest buildings in Toronto. 1970 Humber College (Toronto) Main article: List of Toronto Maple Leafs award winners, Extended Total extended 1,778,206 4 Divisions A map of the Toronto purchase notable is the British surveyor's insistence on using a grid instead of using the natural features to demarcate boundaries such as Etobicoke Creek Under the Treaty of Paris which ended the conflict between Great Britain and its former colonies the boundary of British North America was set in the middle of the Great Lakes This made the land north of the border more important strategically and as the place for Loyalists to settle after the war in 1781 the Mississaugas surrendered a strip of land along the Niagara River and in 1783 land on the Bay of Quinte for the Mohawks who had been loyal to the British to settle (today's Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory) Between 1783 and 1785 10,000 Loyalists arrived and were settling on land the Crown had recognized as Indian Land in 1784 the Mississaugas surrendered more land in the Niagara peninsula including land on the Grand River for the Iroquois In 1786 Lord Dorchester arrived in Quebec City as Governor-in-Chief of British North America His mission was to solve the problems of the newly landed Loyalists at first Dorchester suggested opening the new Canada West as districts under the Quebec government but the British Government made known its intention to split Canada into Upper and Lower Canada Dorchester began organizing for the new province of Upper Canada including a capital Dorchester's first choice was Kingston but was aware of the number of Loyalists in the Bay of Quinte and Niagara areas and chose instead the location north of the Bay of Toronto midway between the settlements and 30 miles (48 km) from the US Under the policy of the time the British recognized aboriginal title to the land and Dorchester arranged to purchase the lands from the Mississaugas The 1787 purchase according to British records was conducted on September 23 1787 at the "Carrying-Place" of Bay of Quinte the British crown and the Mississaugas of New Credit met to arrange for the surrender of lands along Lake Ontario in the case of the Toronto area the Mississaugas of New Credit exchanged 250,808 acres (101,498 ha) of land in what became York County (most of current Toronto and the Regional Municipality of York bounded by Lake Ontario to the south approximately Etobicoke Creek/Highway 27 to the west approximately Ashbridge's Bay/Woodbine Avenue-Highway 404 to the east and approximately south of Sideroad 15-Bloomington Road to the north) for some money 2,000 gun flints 24 brass kettles 120 mirrors 24 laced hats a bale of flowered flannel and 96 gallons of rum At the time the Mississaugas believed that the agreement was not a purchase extinguishing their rights to the land but a rental of the lands for British use in exchange for gifts and presents in perpetuity In 1788 surveyor Alexander Aitken was assigned to conduct a survey of the Toronto site the Mississaugas blocked him for surveying west of the Humber saying the lands to the west had not been ceded Aitken was only allowed to survey the land after British authorities interceded with the Mississaugas Aitken surveyed west to Etobicoke Creek but did not survey more than a few miles from the lake before stopping to avoid further confrontation 1805 indenture. . .
7 Education No religion Current staff In 1992 the Ontario government passed legislation requiring Metropolitan Toronto to include the rest of the Greater Toronto Area into its planning. Despite this however there was fear different parts of the municipal system were working against one another Because of this Bob Rae then the Premier of Ontario appointed Anne Golden to head a GTA task force to govern the region's quality of life competitiveness and governance. During this time the Metro Toronto government advocated to the task force the creation of a new GTA authority which would be made up of 21 of the 30 existing municipalities in the GTA at the time the proposal from Metro Toronto would have resulted in 15 new municipalities the City of Mississauga argued consolidation should only take place in such a way the new municipalities would have a population between 400,000 and 800,000 the Town of Markham had similarly advocated municipal consolidation in York Region although it was opposed to complete consolidation into a single municipality Municipal consolidation faced stiff opposition however from smaller communities such as Ajax Milton and the borough of East York the task force's recommendation to eliminate the Metro Toronto government and consolidate its remaining municipalities into an enlarged City of Toronto was completed in 1997 under Mike Harris' Common Sense Revolution. However the task force's recommendation to create a GTA-tier municipality was not taken up by the Harris government fearing a GTA-wide municipality would recreate the inter-municipal competitiveness that was believed to have impaired the former Metro Toronto government Metrolinx was established to oversee public transit development across the Greater Toronto Area Geography. . . 2000 November 22 2008 October 15 2016 Religion in Toronto (2011) flag Ontario portal *Parts of Quebec (including Gatineau) are included in the Ottawa CMA the population of the Ottawa CMA in both provinces is shown Ten largest municipalities by population.
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