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A new overlay area code, 437, started operation on March 25, 2013. [6] [7] That effectively allocates 24 million numbers to a city of 2.5 million people. Area code 942 is scheduled for addition to the 416/647/437 overlay on April 26, 2025. [8] Area code 387 has been reserved for Toronto's future use.
Ontario (Toronto metropolitan area) March 25, 2013: overlaid on 416/647; 2025: to be overlaid by 942; area code 387 is reserved as a fifth code for the region; 438: Quebec (Montreal metropolitan area) November 4, 2006: overlaid on 514; 2022: overlaid by 263; 439: not in use; available for geographic assignment 440
Ontario: 416, 613: 519, 705, 807, 905: ... Area codes 807 and 867 are the only remaining Canadian area codes that are not part of an overlay.
In a 1993 zone split, Metropolitan Toronto retained the 416 code, while the other municipalities of the Greater Toronto Area were assigned the new area code 905. [89] This division by area code has become part of the local culture to the point where local media refer to something inside Toronto as "the 416" and outside of Toronto as "the 905". [90]
The numbering plan area surrounds the city of Toronto (area codes 416/647/437), leading locals to refer to the primarily suburban cities surrounding Toronto as "the 905" or "905 belt". It is bound by the 519/226/548/382 overlay area in the west, 705/249/683 in the north, 613/343/753 in the east, and Western New York State's 716/624 area on the ...
Foundation Motorcycle Club – A now defunct Ontario-based Hells Angels support club, that was active during the Ontario Biker War, it had chapters in Toronto, Hamilton and Oakville. [206] Ghost Riders Motorcycle Club – Alberta based gang, absorbed by the Grim Reapers Motorcycle Club (Canada) in November 1980. [207]
A 1973 report by the Ontario Provincial Police listed the Black Diamond Riders as being marginal in the drug market in Toronto. [12] However, the Satan's Choice hitman Cecil Kirby shot up the clubhouse of the Black Diamond Riders one night in 1974 for no better reason than he disliked Barnes, whom Kirby stated had "a really big mouth".
Area codes 705, 249, and 683 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for most of northeastern and central Ontario in Canada. Area code 705 was created in a 1956 area code split from portions of the 613 and 519 numbering plan areas.