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. Sandbanks Provincial Park The Ryerson Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science (formerly Faculty of Engineering Architecture & Science) is one of Canada's largest engineering faculties with over 4,000 undergraduate students enrolled in 9 bachelor's degree programs (19 when including options/specializations) and over 500 graduate students in 15 master's and 5 doctoral degree programs. Ryerson's Aerospace Computational Laboratory is a node for the High Performance Computational Virtual Laboratory for the Greater Toronto Area the HPCVL is an interuniversity high-speed computation network which acts as a virtual supercomputer providing the intensive computation power needed in the solution of complex problems in engineering and other disciplines Ryerson University's Department of Architectural Science is housed in a building at 325 Church Street designed by the prominent Canadian architect Ronald Thom (Ryersonian) it offers a program in architecture accredited by the Canadian Architectural Certification Board at the bachelor level (B.Arch.) and the master's level (M.Arch.) The Centre for Computing and Engineering opened in September 2004 and is a state-of-the-art science technology and research facility spanning almost an entire city block in downtown Toronto the building was renamed the George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre in November 2005 Ryerson researchers in the engineering and science disciplines have earned prestigious Premier's Research Excellence Awards (PREA) Canada Research Chairs NSERC Industrial Research Chair a biomedical engineering program started at Ryerson in fall 2008 is the first such program in Canada The faculty hosts the Centre for Urban Energy CUE is co-sponsored by Hydro One Ontario Power Authority and Toronto Hydro the centre focuses on energy research and urban energy challenges Faculty of Science. .

. . . Some Members of the Family Compact, 2006 12,160,282 +6.6% 1829 197,815 +6.1% See also: Politics of Toronto and Public services in Toronto, Metropolitan Toronto School Board the predecessor board of the TDSB Early History of Education in Toronto. An 1824 land deed for Upper Canada. ! 7 Government 62 -1-7 New Democrat Seats: 0 1 3 2 8 0; 9.1.1 Visual arts Beach School Satellite image of Toronto and surrounding area Urban area's of the city are interrupted by the Toronto ravine system The city is mostly flat or gentle hills and the land gently slopes upward away from the lake the flat land is interrupted by the Toronto ravine system which is cut by numerous creeks and rivers of the Toronto waterway system most notably the Humber River in the west end and the Don River east of downtown at opposite ends of Toronto Harbour and the Rouge River at the city's eastern limits Most of the ravines and valley lands in Toronto today are parklands and recreational trails are laid out along the ravines and valleys the original town was laid out in a grid plan on the flat plain north of the harbour and this plan was extended outwards as the city grew the width and depth of several of the ravines and valleys are such that several grid streets such as Finch Avenue Leslie Street Lawrence Avenue and St Clair Avenue terminate on one side of a ravine or valley and continue on the other side Toronto has many bridges spanning the ravines Large bridges such as the Prince Edward Viaduct were built to span wide river valleys Despite its deep ravines Toronto is not remarkably hilly but its elevation does increase steadily away from the lake Elevation differences range from 76.5 metres (251 ft) above sea level at the Lake Ontario shore to 209 m (686 ft) ASL near the York University grounds in the city's north end at the intersection of Keele Street and Steeles Avenue. There are occasional hilly areas; in particular midtown Toronto has a number of sharply sloping hills Lake Ontario remains occasionally visible from the peaks of these ridges as far north as Eglinton Avenue 7 to 8 kilometres (4.3 to 5.0 mi) inland The Scarborough Bluffs is an escarpment along the eastern portion of the Toronto waterfront which formed during the last glacial period The other major geographical feature of Toronto is its escarpments During the last ice age the lower part of Toronto was beneath Glacial Lake Iroquois Today a series of escarpments mark the lake's former boundary known as the "Iroquois Shoreline" the escarpments are most prominent from Victoria Park Avenue to the mouth of Highland Creek where they form the Scarborough Bluffs Other observable sections include the area near St Clair Avenue West between Bathurst Street and the Don River and north of Davenport Road from Caledonia to Spadina Road; the Casa Loma grounds sit above this escarpment The geography of the lakeshore is greatly changed since the first settlement of Toronto Much of the land on the north shore of the harbour is landfill filled in during the late 19th century Until then the lakefront docks (then known as wharves) were set back farther inland than today Much of the adjacent Port Lands on the east side of the harbour was a wetland filled in early in the 20th century the shoreline from the harbour west to the Humber River has been extended into the lake Further west landfill has been used to create extensions of land such as Humber Bay Park The Toronto Islands were a natural peninsula until a storm in 1858 severed their connection to the mainland, creating a channel to the harbour the peninsula was formed by longshore drift taking the sediments deposited along the Scarborough Bluffs shore and transporting them to the Islands area the other source of sediment for the Port Lands wetland and the peninsula was the deposition of the Don River which carved a wide valley through the sedimentary land of Toronto and deposited it in the shallow harbour the harbour and the channel of the Don River have been dredged numerous times for shipping the lower section of the Don River was straightened and channelled in the 19th century the former mouth drained into a wetland; today the Don drains into the harbour through a concrete waterway the Keating Channel Climate.