! . . . Retail Management English and French displayed on a gantry sign Communities with sizeable Francophone populations are able to receive provincial services in French The principal language of Ontario is English the province's de facto official language, which is spoken natively by about 70 per cent of the province's population according to the 2011 census There is also a French-speaking population concentrated in the northeastern eastern and extreme Southern parts of the province where under the French Language Services Act, provincial government services are required to be available in French if at least 10 per cent of a designated area's population report French as their native language or if an urban centre has at least 5,000 francophones Roughly 4 per cent of Ontarians speak French as their mother tongue and 11 per cent are bilingual speaking both English and French according to the 2011 census Other languages spoken by residents include Arabic Bengali Cantonese Dutch German Greek Gujarati Hindi Italian Korean Malayalam Mandarin Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Russian Sinhalese Somali Spanish Tagalog Tamil Tibetan Ukrainian Urdu and Vietnamese Economy, Financial district The term "Greater Toronto" was first used in writing as early as the 1900s although at the time the term only referred to the old City of Toronto and its immediate townships and villages which became Metropolitan Toronto in 1954 and became the current city of Toronto in 1998 the use of the term involving the four regional municipalities came into formal use in the mid-1980s after it was used in a widely discussed report on municipal governance restructuring in the region and was later made official as a provincial planning area However it did not come into everyday usage until the mid- to late 1990s In 2006 the term began to be supplanted in the field of spatial planning as provincial policy increasingly began to refer to either the "Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area" (GTHA)[a] or the still-broader "Greater Golden Horseshoe" the latter includes communities like Barrie Guelph Kitchener-Waterloo Cambridge and the Niagara Region the GTA continues however to be in official use elsewhere in the Government of Ontario such as the Ministry of Finance Census metropolitan area. ; .
11.2 Sources The province has professional sports teams in baseball basketball Canadian football ice hockey lacrosse rugby and soccer Club Sport League City Stadium, Toronto District School Board (TDSB) English first language school board, List of Toronto parks. In 2011 it was revealed that a TDSB school Valley Park Middle School had been holding Muslim prayer services for students in its cafeteria during school hours the prayer services lasted 30 to 40 minutes and were led by an imam from a nearby mosque School administration were required to prepare the mosque and non-Muslim students attended classes during the prayer sessions and were not allowed in the cafeteria. During the prayers boys and girls were separated by benches with girls placed behind the boys Menstruating girls were prohibited from participating but could observe from the back row the Huffington Post commented:. . Main article: Name of Toronto 6.2 Allegations of UNDP resources used by Hamas Other topics 4.5.1 Huron Tract Mary Florence MacDonald curator. 6.3 Islands 11 See also 5 Notes 1993 59 6 Infrastructure Headquarters for the Toronto Catholic District School Board the city's English-language separate school board The following public school boards operate separate schools in Toronto Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir French first language school board. . 83 Canada Cody Ceci D R 25 2019 Ottawa Ontario Until 1763 most of Ontario was considered part of New France by French claim Rupert's Land defined as the drainage basin of Hudson Bay was claimed by Britain and included much of today's Northern Ontario the British defeated the armies of the French colony and its indigenous allies in the French and Indian War part of the Seven Years' War global conflict Concluding the war the peace treaty between the European powers known as the Treaty of Paris 1763 assigned almost all of France's possessions in North America to Britain including parts that would later become Ontario not already part of Rupert's Land Britain established the first Province of Quebec encompassing contemporary Quebec and southern Ontario After the American War of Independence the first reserves for First Nations were established These are situated at Six Nations (1784) Tyendinaga (1793) and Akwesasne (1795) Six Nations and Tyendinaga were established by the British for those indigenous groups who had fought on the side of the British and were expelled from the new United States Akwesasne was a pre-existing Mohawk community and its borders were formalized under the 1795 Jay Treaty In 1788 while part of the Province of Quebec southern Ontario was divided into four districts: Hesse Lunenburg Mecklenburg and Nassau in 1792 the four districts were renamed: Hesse became the Western District Lunenburg became the Eastern District Mecklenburg became the Midland District and Nassau became the Home District Counties were created within the districts By 1798 there were eight districts: Eastern Home Johnstown London Midland Newcastle Niagara and Western by 1826 there were eleven districts: Bathurst Eastern Gore Home Johnstown London Midland Newcastle Niagara Ottawa and Western by 1838 there were twenty districts: Bathurst Brock Colbourne Dalhousie Eastern Gore Home Huron Johnstown London Midland Newcastle Niagara Ottawa Prince Edward Simcoe Talbot Victoria Wellington and Western In 1849 the districts of southern Ontario were abolished by the Province of Canada and county governments took over certain municipal responsibilities the Province of Canada also began creating districts in sparsely populated Northern Ontario with the establishment of Algoma District and Nipissing District in 1858 When Canada was formed in 1867 its provinces were a relatively narrow strip in the southeast with vast territories in the interior it grew by adding British Columbia in 1871 P.E.I in 1873 the British Arctic Islands in 1880 and Newfoundland in 1949; meanwhile its provinces grew both in size and number at the expense of its territories Evolution of the borders of Ontario since Canadian Confederation in 1867 The borders of Ontario its new name in 1867 were provisionally expanded north and west When the Province of Canada was formed its borders were not entirely clear and Ontario claimed eventually to reach all the way to the Rocky Mountains and Arctic Ocean With Canada's acquisition of Rupert's Land Ontario was interested in clearly defining its borders especially since some of the new areas in which it was interested were rapidly growing After the federal government asked Ontario to pay for construction in the new disputed area the province asked for an elaboration on its limits and its boundary was moved north to the 51st parallel north The northern and western boundaries of Ontario were in dispute after Canadian Confederation Ontario's right to Northwestern Ontario was determined by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1884 and confirmed by the Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act 1889 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by 1899 there were seven northern districts: Algoma Manitoulin Muskoka Nipissing Parry Sound Rainy River and Thunder Bay Four more northern districts were created between 1907 and 1912: Cochrane Kenora Sudbury and Timiskaming Demographics! 2.2 Buses and streetcars 3.1 Before 1900 French Secular Conseil scolaire Viamonde 5.5 General managers Georgina Green tick Green tick.
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