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  2. Toronto Purchase - Wikipedia

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    Starting in 1986, the Mississaugas opened a land claims settlement process with the Government of Canada to rectify its grievance over the Toronto Purchase and a smaller plot of land near Burlington Bay. [8] In 2010, Canada agreed to pay CA$145 million for the lands, based on the ancient value of the land, extrapolated to current dollars. The ...

  3. Great Fire of Toronto (1904) - Wikipedia

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    Call Box 12, which was used to sound the alarm, is the name for the volunteer canteen truck supporting Toronto Fire Services today. Toronto Fire Services Public Education Centre and Museum at Station 233 has a model displaying the area of the fire. A 1904 film, The Great Fire of Toronto, created by George Scott & Co. about the event, was the ...

  4. Land ownership in Canada - Wikipedia

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    That was the pattern of land ownership in the earliest British settlements in what is now eastern Canada. When the Crown granted land to settlers, the land grant normally included all minerals, other than precious minerals. [6] The result is that in Ontario, Quebec, and the four Atlantic provinces, much of the mineral rights are privately owned ...

  5. Real estate scammers try to sell vacant land they don't own ...

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    According to Wilkins, this scam primarily involves scammers selling vacant land that other people own. “Usually, it’ll sound too good to be true,” said Wilkins, adding that victims are lured ...

  6. Port Lands - Wikipedia

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    In 1986, the City of Toronto created the Toronto Economic Development Corporation which since 2009 has operated under the name Toronto Port Lands Company. TPLC is a City corporation that manages real estate assets and promotes development in the Port Lands. With respect to development, it works closely with Waterfront Toronto.

  7. Canada to lease government land in plan to add millions of homes

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    OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada plans to ease a housing shortage by leasing public land to developers for construction of affordable houses under a plan unveiled by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on ...

  8. List of unincorporated communities in Ontario - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 February 2025. List of communities in Ontario, Canada The following is a list of unincorporated and informal communities in the province of Ontario, Canada. These communities are not independent communities, these are usually a part of a township for the district, within a county. In non-urban areas ...

  9. Five places where land is free - AOL

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    In the spirit of settling the wild, wild West, some communities are giving away free land lots. ... Delta plane flips upside down after crash landing in Toronto. ... 4 Nations Face-Off: USA ...