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Old Toronto is the part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that corresponds to the boundaries of the City of Toronto prior to 1998. It was incorporated as a city in 1834, after being known as the town of York , and being part of York County .
The word Toronto has been recorded with various spellings in French and English, including Tarento, Tarontha, Taronto, Toranto, Torento, Toronto, and Toronton. [43] The most frequent early spelling, Taronto , referred to 'The Narrows', a channel of water through which Lake Simcoe discharges into Lake Couchiching where the Huron had planted tree ...
Toronto was founded as the Town of York and capital of Upper Canada in 1793 after the Mississaugas sold the land to the British in the Toronto Purchase. [1] For over 12,000 years, Indigenous People have lived in the Toronto area.
Since the 1998 amalgamation, it is administered together with old Toronto, and separate from Scarborough, North York, and Etobicoke-York, by the "Toronto and East York Neighbourhood Council". East York itself is commonly divided into two zones with mainly Edwardian urban neighbourhoods situated south of Taylor-Massey Creek and referred to as ...
Old Toronto 6, 18 St. Mary's Church: 1885 Joseph Connolly (spire by A. W. Holmes) 588 Adelaide Street West Niagara: Old Toronto 6 1 Draper Street 1886 1 Draper Street Fashion District: Old Toronto 18 50 King Street East 1886 50 King Street East St. Lawrence: Old Toronto [40] Eden Court 1886 Romanesque Revival 515 Royal York Road The Queensway ...
A pair of semi-detached bay-and-gable houses, a style found throughout Toronto in the late 19th and early 20th century. By the end of the 19th century, the centre of old Toronto had become an almost wholly industrial and commercial area. Some residents stayed behind in these districts, generally poorer citizens and newly arrived immigrants.
Also known as the "First Toronto Post Office" (it was the fourth post office in York, but the first one to serve the settlement when it became Toronto in 1834), it is one of the earliest surviving examples in Canada of a building purpose-built as a post office; typical of small, early 19th-century public buildings, combining public offices and ...
The Toronto-Barrie Highway is renamed as Highway 400: September 8: Ontario's first television station, CBLT, begins broadcasting in Toronto. November 1: First English broadcast of Hockey Night in Canada is televised from Maple Leaf Gardens. 1953: January 20: The Metropolitan Toronto School Board, a school board with a federation of 11 school ...