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1 Geography Depiction of the Battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812 Upper Canada was an active theatre of operation during the conflict American troops in the War of 1812 invaded Upper Canada across the Niagara River and the Detroit River but were defeated and pushed back by the British Canadian fencibles and militias and First Nations warriors However the Americans eventually gained control of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario the 1813 Battle of York saw American troops defeat the garrison at the Upper Canada capital of York the Americans looted the town and burned the Upper Canada Parliament Buildings during their brief occupation the British would burn the American capital of Washington D.C in 1814 After the War of 1812 relative stability allowed for increasing numbers of immigrants to arrive from Europe rather than from the United States as was the case in the previous decades this immigration shift was encouraged by the colonial leaders Despite affordable and often free land many arriving newcomers mostly from Britain and Ireland found frontier life with the harsh climate difficult and some of those with the means eventually returned home or went south However population growth far exceeded emigration in the following decades it was a mostly agrarian-based society but canal projects and a new network of plank roads spurred greater trade within the colony and with the United States thereby improving previously damaged relations over time Meanwhile Ontario's numerous waterways aided travel and transportation into the interior and supplied water power for development As the population increased so did the industries and transportation networks which in turn led to further development By the end of the century Ontario vied with Quebec as the nation's leader in terms of growth in population industry arts and communications In 1837 an armed insurrection was fought in the colony before being crushed by British authorities and Canadian volunteer units Unrest in the colony began to chafe against the aristocratic Family Compact who governed while benefiting economically from the region's resources and who did not allow elected bodies power This resentment spurred republican ideals and sowed the seeds for early Canadian nationalism Accordingly rebellion in favour of responsible government rose in both regions; Louis-Joseph Papineau led the Lower Canada Rebellion and William Lyon Mackenzie first Toronto mayor, led the Upper Canada Rebellion in Upper Canada the rebellion was quickly a failure William Lyon Mackenzie escaped to the United States where he declared the Republic of Canada on Navy Island on the Niagara River Canada West! . . . Recovery rates for stolen vehicles vary depending on the effort a jurisdiction's police department puts into recovery and devices a vehicle has installed to assist in the process Police departments use various methods of recovering stolen vehicles such as random checks of vehicles that come in front of a patrol unit checks of all vehicles parked along a street or within a parking lot using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) or keeping a watchlist of all the vehicles reported stolen by their owners Police departments also receive tips on the location of stolen vehicles through StolenCar.com or isitnicked.com in the United Kingdom In the UK the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) provides information on the registration of vehicles to certain companies for consumer protection and anti-fraud purposes the information may be added to by companies with details from the police finance and insurance companies Such companies include Carfax in the US AutoCheck and CarCheck in the United Kingdom and Cartell in Ireland which then provide online car check services for the public and motor trade Vehicle tracking systems such as LoJack automatic vehicle location or OnStar may enable the location of the vehicle to be tracked by local law enforcement or a private company Other security devices such as microdot identification allow individual parts of a vehicle to also be identified and potentially returned Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario the city is home to a number of elementary secondary and post-secondary institutions in addition to those institutions the city is also home several specialty and supplementary schools which provide schooling for specific crafts or are intended to provide additional educational support Four publicly funded school boards provide elementary and secondary schooling to residents of the city from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12 the four school boards operate as either English or French first language school boards and as either secular or separate school boards in addition to publicly funded schools elementary and secondary education is also provided by private religious school boards independent religious schools or independent secular institutions such as college-preparatory schools Toronto is also home to a number of post-secondary institutions There are five universities in Toronto with degree-granting authority four of which are public university while the other is a private seminary in addition there are four degree- and diploma-granting colleges based in the city Other post-secondary institutions based in Ontario have also established satellite campuses in Toronto Other forms of post-secondary institutions in Toronto consists of private vocational schools Contents. ! The Toronto Public School Board (TPSB) was created in 1847 to oversee elementary education in Toronto. However the date of creation of the board is also given as 1850 as this was when trustee elections under a ward system started. Legislation toward the creation of local public school boards began with the School Act of 1844 which stipulated municipal contributions toward the salaries of teachers the Toronto Public School Board continued to govern the city's elementary schools until 1904 when following a city referendum it was merged with the Collegiate Institute Board which oversaw the city's secondary schools and the Technical School Board which oversaw the Toronto Technical School to form the Toronto Board of Education Six trustees were appointed to the original 1847 board by the municipal council of Toronto to serve with the mayor the board was composed entirely of white men until the election of the first female trustee Augusta Stowe-Gullen in 1892 the board was created after the passage of the Common School Act of 1846 spearheaded by Egerton Ryerson architect of both publicly funded schooling and the residential school system the Act also called for the creation of a provincial normal school which would become the Toronto Normal School Prior to the 1846 Common School Act individual schools were governed by boards created under the Grammar School Act of 1807 and the Common Schools Act of 1816. Like all boards of education at the time the Toronto Public School Board was responsible for raising money to fund schools in addition to grants provided by the provincial government However they were not empowered to make these levies compulsory until the passage of the Common School Act in 1850 brought on in part by the closure of schools in Toronto in 1848 due to lack of funds. This act also allowed for the creation of separate schools boards in Ontario including racially segregated schools in Toronto the act allowed for the creation of a Catholic school board which would eventually become today's Toronto Catholic District School Board While elementary schooling across the province was not made free by law until 1871 the 1850 Common School Act allowed for individual boards to entirely fund their schools through public funds the Toronto Public School Board voted to do so in 1851 making elementary schooling in the city free Minutes from the first meetings of the Toronto Public School Board have been preserved by the Toronto District School Board Museum and Archives Schools of the Toronto Public School Board, Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory In addition to snowstorms ice storms windstorms heavy rainfall events associated with tropical storms or very severe thunderstorms Tornadoes are rare but do occur Tornado warnings have been posted for the city on a few occasions in the early 21st century however no touchdowns have been confirmed in the city since a weak tornado hit Scarborough in the mid-1990s a pair of dangerous F2 tornados did touchdown in neighbouring Vaughan on August 20 during the 2009 tornado season Further information: Effects of Hurricane Hazel in Canada.
Catherine Yee Attorney At Law