2.2.1 Boston Bruins Main article: History of Toronto the Game:Play Lab which explores critiques and expands the nature of the gaming experience through play theory and practice. The term "Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area" (GTHA) refers to the GTA and the City of Hamilton the term has been adopted by several organizations (including Metrolinx the Ministry of Energy and Halton Region.) for the purposes of regional planning the GTHA and the Regional Municipality of Niagara form the inner ring of the larger Greater Golden Horseshoe region History. Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory, A map highlighting the Canadas with Upper Canada in orange and Lower Canada in green in 1841 the two colonies were united to form the Province of Canada Although both rebellions were put down in short order the British government sent Lord Durham to investigate the causes He recommended self-government be granted and Lower and Upper Canada be re-joined in an attempt to assimilate the French Canadians Accordingly the two colonies were merged into the Province of Canada by the Act of Union 1840 with the capital at Kingston and Upper Canada becoming known as Canada West. Parliamentary self-government was granted in 1848 There were heavy waves of immigration in the 1840s and the population of Canada West more than doubled by 1851 over the previous decade As a result for the first time the English-speaking population of Canada West surpassed the French-speaking population of Canada East tilting the representative balance of power An economic boom in the 1850s coincided with railway expansion across the province further increasing the economic strength of Central Canada With the repeal of the Corn Laws and a reciprocity agreement in place with the United States various industries such as timber mining farming and alcohol distilling benefited tremendously A political stalemate between the French- and English-speaking legislators as well as fear of aggression from the United States during and immediately after the American Civil War led the political elite to hold a series of conferences in the 1860s to effect a broader federal union of all British North American colonies the British North America Act took effect on July 1 1867 establishing the Dominion of Canada initially with four provinces: Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec and Ontario the Province of Canada was divided into Ontario and Quebec so that each linguistic group would have its own province Both Quebec and Ontario were required by section 93 of the British North America Act to safeguard existing educational rights and privileges of Protestant and the Catholic minority Thus separate Catholic schools and school boards were permitted in Ontario However neither province had a constitutional requirement to protect its French- or English-speaking minority Toronto was formally established as Ontario's provincial capital Provincehood, A farm in Caledon There were 3,707 farms in the Greater Toronto Area according to the 2006 census While it was once the most dominant industry for residents in the Greater Toronto Area agriculture now occupies a small percentage of the population but still a large part of land in the surrounding four regional municipalities Census data from 2006 has shown there are 3,707 census farms in the GTA down 4.2% from 2001 and covering 274,363 hectares (677,970 acres). Almost every community in the GTA is currently experiencing a decrease in the acreage of farmland with Mississauga seeing the most significant the only communities in the GTA which are experiencing a growth in the acreage of farmland are Aurora Georgina Newmarket Oshawa Richmond Hill and Scugog with Markham experiencing neither any growth nor decline. Most of the GTA's farmland is in Durham Region with 55% of their total land area being farmland This is followed by York Region with 41% of their lands being farmland Peel Region with 34% and Halton Region with 41%. Toronto's remaining farmland is completely within Rouge Park in the Rouge Valley the average size of the farm in the GTA (74 hectares (183 acres)) is much lower than the farms in the rest of Ontario (averaging 233 acres (0.94 km2)) This has been attributed to the shift of farm types in the GTA from the traditional livestock and cash crop farms (requiring an extensive land base) towards more intensive enterprises including greenhouse floriculture nursery vegetable fruit sheep and goats The most numerous farms types in the GTA are miscellaneous specialty farms (including horse and pony sheep and lamb and other livestock specialty) followed by cattle grain and oilseed dairy and field crop farms. Although the output of dairy production has dropped with farms from within the GTA dairy has remained the most productive sector in the agricultural industry by annual gross farm receipts. Despite the decreased amount of farmland around the region farm capital value increased from $5.2 billion in 1996 to $6.1 billion in 2001 making the average farm capital value in the GTA continued to be the highest in the province Infrastructure.
The Great Lakes Circle Tour and Seaway Trail are designated scenic road systems connecting all of the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence River. As the Seaway Trail is posted on the U.S side only Lake Ontario is the only of the five Great Lakes to have no posted bi-national circle tour In the 1800s there were reports of an alleged creature similar to the so-called Loch Ness Monster being sighted in the lake the creature is described as large with a long neck green in colour and generally causes a break in the surface waves Swims across the lake! History The Ryerson Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science (formerly Faculty of Engineering Architecture & Science) is one of Canada's largest engineering faculties with over 4,000 undergraduate students enrolled in 9 bachelor's degree programs (19 when including options/specializations) and over 500 graduate students in 15 master's and 5 doctoral degree programs. Ryerson's Aerospace Computational Laboratory is a node for the High Performance Computational Virtual Laboratory for the Greater Toronto Area the HPCVL is an interuniversity high-speed computation network which acts as a virtual supercomputer providing the intensive computation power needed in the solution of complex problems in engineering and other disciplines Ryerson University's Department of Architectural Science is housed in a building at 325 Church Street designed by the prominent Canadian architect Ronald Thom (Ryersonian) it offers a program in architecture accredited by the Canadian Architectural Certification Board at the bachelor level (B.Arch.) and the master's level (M.Arch.) The Centre for Computing and Engineering opened in September 2004 and is a state-of-the-art science technology and research facility spanning almost an entire city block in downtown Toronto the building was renamed the George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre in November 2005 Ryerson researchers in the engineering and science disciplines have earned prestigious Premier's Research Excellence Awards (PREA) Canada Research Chairs NSERC Industrial Research Chair a biomedical engineering program started at Ryerson in fall 2008 is the first such program in Canada The faculty hosts the Centre for Urban Energy CUE is co-sponsored by Hydro One Ontario Power Authority and Toronto Hydro the centre focuses on energy research and urban energy challenges Faculty of Science, Extended Haldimand County 44,876 Halton High School, 16 Canada Mitch Marner RW R 22 2015 Markham Ontario As of 2012 nearly 50 people have successfully swum across the lake the first person who accomplished the feat was Marilyn Bell who did it in 1954 at the age of 16 Toronto's Marilyn Bell Park is named in her honour the park opened in 1984 and is just to the east of the spot where Bell completed her swim in 1974 Diana Nyad became the first person who swam across the lake against the current (from north to south) on August 28 2007 14-year-old Natalie Lambert from Kingston Ontario made the swim leaving Sackets Harbor New York and reaching Kingston's Confederation basin less than 24 hours after she entered the lake on August 19 2012 14-year-old Annaleise Carr became the youngest person to swim across the lake She completed the 32-mile (52-km) crossing from Niagara-on-the-Lake to Marilyn Bell Park in just under 27 hours Industrialisation.
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