. Toronto was originally a term that referred to a indeterminate geographical location having been used on maps dating to the late 17th and early 18th century to refer to the approximate area that includes the present City of Toronto As the name was used to refer to the approximate area several historic settlements adjacent to the City of Toronto have also carried the name Toronto including Toronto Township and Toronto Gore Eventually the name was anchored to the mouth of the Humber River which is where the present City of Toronto is situated the bay serves as the end of the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail portage route from Georgian Bay There are several explanations for the source and meaning of the name "Toronto" One claim is that the origin is the Seneca word Giyando meaning "on the other side" which was the place where the Humber River narrows at the foot of the pass to the village of Teiaiagon Another is that the term is from the Mohawk word tkaronto meaning "where there are trees standing in the water" which originally referred to the Narrows near present-day Orillia where Hurons and other groups drove stakes into the water to create fish weirs French maps from the 1680s to 1760s identify present-day Lake Simcoe as Lac de Taronto the spelling changed to Toronto during the 18th century and the term gradually came to refer to a large region that included the location of the present-day city of Toronto As the portage route grew in use the name became more widely used and was eventually attached to a French trading fort just inland from Lake Ontario on the Humber Confusion over the origin of the name can be attributed to the succession of First Nations peoples who lived in the area including the Neutral Seneca Mohawk Cayuga and Wendat nations From August 1793 to March 1834 the settlement was known as York sharing the same name as the county it was situated in the settlement was renamed when Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe called for the town to be named after the Prince Frederick Duke of York and Albany to differentiate from York in England and New York City the town was known as "Little York" in 1804 settler Angus MacDonald petitioned the Parliament of Upper Canada to restore the original name of the area but this was rejected the town changed its name back to Toronto when it was incorporated into a city Early history, 2.1 Airport rail link Legacy Global rankings 8.2 Census metropolitan areas MLS Newcomer of the Year.
Some methods used by criminals to steal motor vehicles are:, In 2001 Toronto School Board Trustee Sam Basra was convicted of Immigration Act charges and was forced under the Education Act to resign his seat He pleaded guilty in August 2001 to selling fake offers of employment to potential immigrants for US$1,500.00 each This came to light after being tipped by a former employee police raided Basra's paralegal firm and found 250 false letters of employment in March 2001 Arjan Singh launched a $15 million lawsuit against Basra alleging that while doing paralegal work Basra forged documents to make him think his rights case was active more than a year after it was closed After much infighting among the trustees and inaction from then Chair of the Board Donna Cansfield to make an appointment to fill the vacant trustee seat left by Basra a by-election was called for April 2002 costing the board $160,000.00 Stan Nemiroff defeated former Mayor of Etobicoke Bruce Sinclair in the by-election to become the new Ward 1 trustee representing Etobicoke North Racial religious and disability-related issues, 24 Finland Kasperi Kapanen RW R 23 2015 Kuopio Finland See also: List of airports in New Brunswick. Sudbury (Sudbury Airport) 25/13 77/56 -8/-19 18/0, There are a number of public transportation operators within the Greater Toronto Area providing services within their jurisdictions While these operators are largely independent provisions are being made to integrate them under Metrolinx which manages transportation planning including public transport in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. GO Transit which merged with Metrolinx during the late 2000s is Ontario's only intra-regional public transit service linking the communities in the GTA and the city of Hamilton as well as the rest of the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Implementation of a 'Presto card' by Metrolinx has created a common means for all fare payments and allows for seamless connection between these and other transit operators Public transit operators in the GTA include Brampton Transit Burlington Transit Durham Region Transit GO Transit Milton Transit MiWay (serving Mississauga) Oakville Transit Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) and York Region Transit the TTC operates the Toronto subway system which runs in Toronto and in Vaughan the latter of which began to be served by the system in December 2017 with an extension of Line 1 to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station Highway 401 serves as a major roadway in the Greater Toronto Area The GTA also consists number of King's Highways and supplemented by municipal expressways One of the most principal highways in the GTA Highway 401 is also the longest in Ontario and is also one of the busiest highways in the world. Notably a segment of the highway passing through the GTA holds the distinction of being North America's busiest highway the GTA is laced with a number of limited-access highways including the 400-series highways These include:, 6.2 Sports venues 10.1 Great Lakes in general. . . 10 Noted alumni Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory London District Grammar School latter became London Central Secondary School! 1.2.5 TPSB Industrial Schools, 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, Establishment 1830 213,156 +7.8% See also: Energy policy of Canada Renewable energy in Canada and Smart grid! Chauncey and Dearborn subsequently won the Battle of Fort George on the Niagara peninsula but they had left Sacket's Harbor defended only by a few troops mainly militia When reinforcements from the Royal Navy commanded by Commodore James Lucas Yeo arrived in Kingston Yeo almost immediately embarked some troops commanded by Sir George Prevost and attacked Sackett's Harbor Although the British were repelled by the defenders at the Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor Chauncey immediately withdrew into Sacket's Harbor until mid-July when a new heavy sloop of war had been completed The town of York was attacked again in July 1813 when a battalion of troops led by Colonel Winfield Scott raided the undefended town Chauncey sortied again on July 21 with 13 vessels Six days later he embarked a battalion of 500 troops commanded by Colonel Winfield Scott at the Niagara. Chauncey sought to relieve the British-Native blockade of Fort George by attacking British supply lines at Burlington Heights at the western end of Lake Ontario. Winfield Scott's force disembarked east of the heights at Burlington Beach (present day Burlington) on July 29 but found the defenders too well-entrenched for any assault to be successful Anticipating Chauncey's intentions Major-General Francis de Rottenburg Sheaffe's successor as Lieutenant Governor ordered the bulk of the troops at York to the Burlington Heights. However this left York largely undefended as most of its militia were still on parole the American squadron proceeded to York in order to seize food stores to feed its soldiers the last remaining troop in York members of the 19th Light Dragoons collected the military supplies they could carry and withdrew along the Don River the American landing of 340 men at York was unopposed with the American force burning the barracks at the fort the military fuel yards and looted several properties. They also seized 11 batteaux 5 cannons and some flour before reembarking on their ships leaving the settlement later that night the library books that were looted from the battle in April 1813 were returned to the settlement during the second incursion into York The Ontario Heritage Foundation erected a plaque in 1968 near the entrance to Coronation Park Exhibition Place Lake Shore Boulevard in commemoration of the event the plaque reads:. 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