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When Europeans First Arrived At The Site Of Present-day Toronto The Vicinity Was Inhabited By The Iroquois, Who Had Displaced The Wyandot (Huron) People Occupants Of The Region For Centuries Before C 1500 The Name Toronto Is Likely Derived From The Iroquoian Word Tkaronto Meaning "place Where Trees Stand In The Water". This Refers To The Northern End Of What Is Now Lake Simcoe Where The Huron Had Planted Tree Saplings To Corral Fish However The Word "Toronto" Meaning "plenty" Also Appears In A 1632 French Lexicon Of The Huron Language Which Is Also An Iroquoian Language It Also Appears On French Maps Referring To Various Locations Including Georgian Bay Lake Simcoe And Several Rivers A Portage Route From Lake Ontario To Lake Huron Running Through This Point Known As The Toronto Carrying-Place Trail Led To Widespread Use Of The Name In The 1660s The Iroquois Established Two Villages Within What Is Today Toronto Ganatsekwyagon On The Banks Of The Rouge River And Teiaiagon On The Banks Of The Humber River By 1701 The Mississauga Had Displaced The Iroquois Who Abandoned The Toronto Area At The End Of The Beaver Wars With Most Returning To Their Base In Present-day New York In The 17th Century The Area Was A Crucial Link For Travel With The Humber And Rouge Rivers Providing A Shortcut To The Upper Great Lakes These Routes Together Were Known As The Toronto Passage French Traders Founded Fort Rouill� In 1750 (the Current Exhibition Grounds Were Later Developed Here) But Abandoned It In 1759 During The Seven Years' War The British Defeated The French And Their Indigenous Allies In The War And The Area Became Part Of The British Colony Of Quebec In 1763 During The American Revolutionary War An Influx Of British Settlers Came Here As United Empire Loyalists Fled For The British-controlled Lands North Of Lake Ontario The Crown Granted Them Land To Compensate For Their Losses In The Thirteen Colonies The New Province Of Upper Canada Was Being Created And Needed A Capital In 1787 The British Lord Dorchester Arranged For The Toronto Purchase With The Mississauga Of The New Credit First Nation Thereby Securing More Than A Quarter Of A Million Acres (1000 Km2) Of Land In The Toronto Area. Dorchester Intended The Location To Be Named Toronto In 1793 Governor John Graves Simcoe Established The Town Of York On The Toronto Purchase Lands Naming It After Prince Frederick Duke Of York And Albany Simcoe Decided To Move The Upper Canada Capital From Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake) To York, Believing The New Site Would Be Less Vulnerable To Attack By The United States The York Garrison Was Built At The Entrance Of The Town's Natural Harbour Sheltered By A Long Sand-bar Peninsula The Town's Settlement Formed At The Harbour's Eastern End Behind The Peninsula Near The Present-day Intersection Of Parliament Street And Front Street (in The "Old Town" Area) 19th Century
. 8.2 Census metropolitan areas London Lightning Basketball NBLC London Budweiser Gardens Main article: Sports in Toronto Other Christians 1,224,300 9.7 52 Defender Julian Dunn-Johnson (HG) Canada Huron Tract Purchase area located in Southern Ontario highlighted in yellow. Whitby Green tick Green tick St Catharines, 2.1 Funding information table The company and its hotels and resorts have been involved in a number of philanthropic programs with a focus on supporting sustainability building communities and advancing cancer research Four Seasons was one of the founders of the Terry Fox Run in 1981, which has since grown into the world's largest single day cancer fundraiser with events around the world every September to date the Terry Fox Run has raised more than CAD 750 million In 2001 Four Seasons Resort Maldives started collaborating with the local environmental organization Seamarc/Marine savers which has set up a program of reimplantation of coral in damaged areas. Thousands of guest-sponsored "coral frames" have been transplanted in Kuda Hurra and Landaa Giraavaru resorts' reefs and are under survey by marine scientists; they constitute a refuge for thousands of tropical species and help to preserve and recover fragile ecosystems On June 19 2002 the Canadian Opera Company announced Four Seasons Hotels as the naming donor for the COC's new Opera House also home to the National Ballet of Canada the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts located in Toronto Ontario 2016 26,583, 12.2 Notes 10 See also Clarington Green tick Green tick U.S News & World Report Global 816. . Climate data for Richmond Hill (1981-2010) Guelph 7 Midfielder Nicolas Benezet (on loan from Guingamp) France Presbyterians 97,095 4.3 Sports The UNDP was founded on 22 November 1965 with the merging of the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance (EPTA) and the Special Fund the rationale was to "avoid duplication of [their] activities" the EPTA was set up in 1949 to help the economic and political aspects of underdeveloped countries while the Special Fund was to enlarge the scope of UN technical assistance the Special Fund arose from the idea of a Special United Nations Fund for Economic Development (SUNFED) (which was initially called the United Nations Fund for Economic Development (UNFED) Countries such as the Nordic countries were proponents of such a United Nations (UN) controlled fund However the fund was opposed by developed countries especially by the United States who was wary of the Third World dominating such a funding and preferred it to be under the auspices of the World Bank the concept of SUNFED was dropped to form the Special Fund This Special Fund was a compromise over the SUNFED concept it did not provide investment capital but only helped to bring pre-conditions for private investment With the US proposing and creating the International Development Association within the World Bank's umbrella the EPTA and the Special Fund appeared to be conducting similar work in 1962 the United Nations Economic and Social Council asked the Secretary General to consider the merits and disadvantages of merging UN technical assistance programs and in 1966 the EPTA and the Special Fund merged to form the UNDP Budget. 2 Campus Reconstruction relief and rehabilitation 249.0 282.5 338.1 376.5 422.0 1,668.2, Toronto is built on the former lake bed of Lake Iroquois This large flat expanse presents few natural limits to growth and throughout its history Toronto has sprawled outward and today has a ring of suburbs that spans hundreds of square kilometres in 2005 the provincial government has attempted to place an artificial limit to this growth in the form of a Greenbelt around the city Toronto was planned out on a grid system of concession lines spaced about two kilometres apart that separated rural landholdings Major avenues were established along each concession line as the city spread outward These avenues run straight with few diversions for long stretches and Toronto is notable for the considerable length of its major streets Most of the avenues go from one side of the city to the other and often continue deep into the neighbouring suburbs Suburban expansion replaced these rural lots with subdivisions made of crescents and cul-de-sacs These local road networks were designed to reduce and slow traffic redirecting vehicles to the avenues These wide avenues that even run through the central city have also made it easier for Toronto to retain a streetcar system which was among the few North American cities to do so The most important obstacle to construction is Toronto's network of ravines Historically city planners filled in many of the ravines and when this was not possible planners mostly ignored them though today the remaining ones are embraced for their natural beauty Ravines have helped isolate some central neighbourhoods from the rest of the city and have contributed to the exclusivity of certain neighbourhoods such as Rosedale Opened in 1889 the Don Valley Brick Works was one of several local brickworks the abundance of clay in the area made brick a commonly used material for construction Building materials! 2.2 Libraries and galleries Tracey Johnston-Aldworth - entrepreneur environmentalist. 11 Canada Zach Hyman Injured Reserve C R 27 2015 Toronto Ontario, 4 Economy 1921 2,933,662 +16.1% RTA School of Media 3.2 Home arenas and practice facilities.
. Latin American 165,700 1.8% 6.2 TFC Academy, Vote: 14.3 - - - - -, Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory. English Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory. 360-degree panorama of Toronto as seen from the CN Tower in 2008 Lake Ontario and the Toronto Islands is in the centre background Architecture, History 5.1 Government Main article: Education in Toronto, The Toronto Board of Education officially the Board of Education for the City of Toronto governed education in pre-amalgamation Toronto from 1904 to 1998 it was created from the merger of the existing boards of education in the city (The Toronto Public School Board the Toronto Collegiate Institute Board and the Toronto Technical School Board) following a municipal referendum in 1904 the board governed education in Toronto until 1998 Metropolitan Toronto School Board and the Toronto District School Board.
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