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History of Toronto
1847. Wave of over 30,000 Irish Immigrants arrive in Toronto to escape the famine in Ireland. 1849. April 7. The first Great Fire of Toronto occurs. May 30. King's College is renamed as the University of Toronto. The Williams Omnibus Bus Line is established as the first public transit system in Toronto. 1850.
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List of oldest buildings and structures in Toronto
History of Ontario
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1807 – First settlement, Ebytown, on the site of present-day Kitchener. 1809 – The first documented appearance of steam navigation on the Great Lakes is at Prescott, when the steamship Dalhousie was launched for service on the Saint Lawrence River. [25] 1812–1814 – The War of 1812 with the United States.
The earliest Toronto neighbourhoods were the five municipal wards that the city was split into in 1834. The wards were named for the patron saints of the four nations of the British Isles (St. George, St. Andrew, St. Patrick, and St. David) and St. Lawrence, the patron saint of Canada. Today, only St. Lawrence remains a well-known neighbourhood ...