. . 1 Governance The Golden Horseshoe has been recognised as a geographic region since the 1950s but it was only on July 13 2004 that a report from the provincial Ministry of Public Infrastructure Renewal entitled Places to Grow coined the term Greater Golden Horseshoe extending the boundaries west to Waterloo Region north to Barrie/Simcoe County and northeast to the county and city of Peterborough a subsequent edition released February 16 2005 broadened the term further adding Brant Haldimand and Northumberland Counties to the now quasi-administrative region the Greater Golden Horseshoe region is officially designated in Ontario Regulation 416/05 under the Places to Grow Act the designation Greater Golden Horseshoe has legal significance with respect to taxation: in April 2017 the Government of Ontario announced plans to impose a 15 per cent Non-Resident Speculation Tax (NRST) on non-Canadian citizens non-permanent residents and non-Canadian corporations (with exceptions or rebates for refugees qualifying students and certain people working in Ontario) buying residential properties containing one to six units in the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) The provincial transit authority Metrolinx makes use of the term Greater Golden Horseshoe the Metrolinx definition is consistent with the original 2004 Places to Grow definition However the city and county of Peterborough is not included Demographics.
2 Geology The Great Migration from Britain from 1815 to 1850 has been numbered at 800,000 the population of Upper Canada in 1837 is documented at 409,000 Given the lack of detailed census data it is difficult to assess the relative size of the American and Canadian born "British" and the foreign-born "British." By the time of the first census in 1841 only half of the population of Upper Canada were foreign-born British Irish! . 1999 47B Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory Transportation! .
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