Ponteggi Milano di Messina Domenico

Although He Left No Written Record It Is Believed That The First European To Set Foot On The Shores Of Lake Ontario In The Vicinity Of What Is Now Toronto Was French Explorer �tienne Br�l� Taking The Toronto Passage From Huronia In 1615. However The Claim Is Disputed By A Number Of Scholars Who Suggest That Br�l� Took A More Westerly Route And Had Reached Lake Erie As Opposed To Lake Ontario. Europeans Were Active In The Toronto Area By The 1660s With Missionaries Visiting First Nations Settlements In The Area By The 18th Century Toronto Became An Important Location For French Fur Traders Given Its Proximity To The Toronto Passage In 1720 Captain Alexandre Dagneau Established Fort Douville On The Humber River Near The Shore Of Lake Ontario The Trading Post Was Built In An Effort To Divert First Nations Traders From British Trading Posts To The South Of Toronto The Success Of Fort Douville Prompted The British To Build A Larger Trading Post In Oswego New York The Completion Of Fort Oswego In 1726 Led The French To Abandon Their First Trading Post In Toronto Fort Rouill� Was One Of Several French Trading Posts Established In Toronto During The 1750s The Forts Were Abandoned In 1759 As A Result Of The Seven Years' War The French Established Another Trading Post In 1750 On The Humber River It Was Successful Enough To Encourage The French To Establish Fort Rouill� At Present Day Exhibition Place In 1751 After The British Captured Fort Niagara In July 1759 Fort Rouill� Was Destroyed Its French Occupants Who Withdrew To Montreal In 1760 Robert Rogers With An Armed Force Of Two Hundred Men And A Flotilla Of Fifteen Whaleboats Came To Secure Toronto For The British The Treaty Of Paris Of 1763 Formally Ended The Seven Years' War And Saw The French Cede New France To The British The Territory Acquired By The British Included Toronto Which Formerly Was A Part Of New France's Pays D'en Haut Region European Settlement In Central Canada Was Quite Limited Before 1775 Amounting To Only A Few Families In The Area However In The Aftermath Of The American Revolutionary War The Area Saw An Influx Of Settlers Known As The United Empire Loyalists; American Colonists Who Either Refused To Accept Being Divorced From The Crown Or Who Felt Unwelcome In The New Republic Of The United States A Number Of Loyalists Fled From The United States To The Mostly Unsettled Lands North Of Lake Erie And Lake Ontario; Some Had Fought In The British Army And Were Paid With Land In The Region These Early Immigrants Originated From The Midland Region Of The United States They Valued Pluralism Were Organized Around The Middle Class Were Suspicious Of Top-down Government Interventions And Were Politically Moderate It Has Been Argued That These Immigrants' Attitudes Laid The Foundation For Southern Ontario's (and By Extension Toronto's) Existing Pluralistic And Politically Moderate Culture In 1787 The British Negotiated The Purchase Of More Than 1,000 Square Kilometres (250,000 Acres) Of Land In The Area Of Toronto With The Mississaugas Of New Credit After Surveying The Land The Mississauga's Objected To The Purchase And It Was Declared Invalid Another Agreement Would Be Made In 1805 But This Agreement Too Fell Into Dispute And Was Only Eventually Settled Two Centuries Later In 2010 For CA$145 Million A Townsite Was Surveyed In 1788 By Captain Gother Mann And Laid Out In A Gridiron With Government And Military Buildings Around A Central Square The Influx Of Loyalist Settlers To The Western Portions Of Province Of Quebec Including The Toronto Area Led To The Passage Of The Constitutional Act 1791 The Act Split The Colony Into Two; With The Eastern Portion Of Quebec Forming The Province Of Lower Canada And The Western Portion Of Quebec (including Toronto) Forming The Province Of Upper Canada Town Of York (1793�1834)