. . St Michael's Hospital was founded in 1892 by the Sisters of St Joseph who operated the Notre Dame des Anges a boarding house for working women Originally an old Baptist church the hospital on Bond Street was created in response to care for the poor population in the south end of Toronto The hospital opened with a bed capacity of 26 and a staff of six doctors and four graduate nurses Within a year it was expanded to include two large wards and an emergency department As early as 1894 St Michael's Hospital started receiving medical students it negotiated a formal agreement with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 1920 that continues to this day By 1912 bed capacity had reached 300 and a five-room operating suite was added Ongoing physical expansion most prominent in the 1960s increased the original 26-bed facility to a high of 900 beds Between 1892 and 1974 St Michael's school of nursing graduated 81 classes totalling 5,177 graduates the school was closed in 1974 when nursing education was moved into the province's community college system Thereafter the hospital opened a school for medical record librarians the first in Canada and also participated in the preparation of dietitians and X-ray and laboratory technologists In March 2010 the hospital re-branded itself simply as St Michael's to reflect its growing movement into medical research At the same time a new motto: "Inspired Care Inspiring Science." was also revealed Public transportation in Toronto dates back to 1849 with the creation of a horse-drawn stagecoach company Today Toronto's mass transit is primarily made up of a system of subways buses and streetcars covering approximately 1,200 km (750 mi) of routes operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) and inter-regional commuter rail and bus service is provided by GO Transit Contents.
. 5.3 Museums After a number of financially difficult seasons the St Patricks' ownership group seriously considered selling the team to C C Pyle for C$200,000 (equivalent to $2,932,000 in 2018) Pyle sought to move the team to Philadelphia. However Toronto Varsity Blues coach Conn Smythe put together a group of his own and made a $160,000 (equivalent to $2,345,000 in 2018) offer With the support of Bickell a St Pats shareholder Smythe persuaded Querrie to accept their bid arguing that civic pride was more important than money After taking control on February 14 1927 Smythe immediately renamed the team the Maple Leafs after the national symbol of Canada. He attributed his choice of a maple leaf for the logo to his experiences as a Canadian Army officer and prisoner of war during World War I Viewing the maple leaf as a "badge of courage" and a reminder of home Smythe decided to give the same name to his hockey team in honour of the many Canadian soldiers who wore it. However the team was not the first to use the name a Toronto minor-league baseball team had used the name "Maple Leafs" since 1895 Initial reports were that the team's colours were to be red and white, but the Leafs wore white sweaters with a green maple leaf for their first game on February 17 1927 on September 27 1927 it was announced that the Leafs had changed their colour scheme to blue and white. Although Smythe later stated he chose blue because it represents the Canadian skies and white to represent snow these colours were also used on his gravel and sand business' trucks the colour blue was also a colour historically associated with the City of Toronto the use of blue by top-level Toronto-based sports clubs began with the Argonaut Rowing Club in the 19th century later adopted by their football team the Toronto Argonauts in 1873 Opening of Maple Leaf Gardens (1930s), Green Seats: 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 Italy Florence Italy, Moravians 1,778 One King Street West is a hotel that incorporated a postmodern tower into the former Dominion Bank building the original building was completed in 1914 Many of Toronto's early hotels were small inns and taverns that were built along each of the major routes out of the city the oldest surviving hotel in Toronto is Montgomery's Inn which was built in 1832 the Lambton House is another surviving hotel structure that also served those travelling on Dundas Both hotels had since been converted as museums The arrival of the railroad in the mid-nineteenth century dramatically changed travel patterns and new hotels from this era were clustered around the railroad stations Outside the central core smaller hotels grew up to serve the stations in what were then the outer reaches of the city in the west these included the Gladstone Hotel and the Drake Hotel while in the east New Broadview House Hotel and the New Edwin Hotel were built The twentieth century saw a new generation of hotels much larger and more monumental than before as the skyscraper came to prominence the King Edward Hotel was established in 1903 and is the oldest major hotel still in operation in the city in 1927 the Queen's was demolished and replaced by the Royal York Hotel At the time the new hotel was the tallest building in Canada and quickly became the city's most elite lodging in the northern part of the city this era also saw the erection of the Park Plaza in 1929 The 1970s and 1980s saw a number of major hotel projects in central Toronto with the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hilton Sutton Place and Four Seasons adding thousands of new rooms to the market the economic downturn at the end of the 1980s saw several hotels run into financial trouble Since the mid-2000s a booming real estate market especially in downtown Toronto has led to a number of new hotel projects often in combination with condominium projects An unprecedented number of major hotel projects were completed in central Toronto including the St Regis Toronto (formerly known as Trump International Hotel and Tower then the Adelaide Hotel Toronto) the Ritz-Carlton Living Shangri-La and a new Four Seasons Hotel and Residences Toronto Main Streets. Main article: Toronto FC fans Parliament St School (1872) Montcrest School.
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