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The area known as Toronto before the 1998 amalgamation is sometimes called the "Old Toronto", and "the core". For administrative purposes, Toronto is divided into four districts: Etobicoke-York, North York, Scarborough and Toronto-East York. Map of Toronto including the former municipalities that existed before 1998
However, the Greater Toronto Area, which is an economic area defined by the Government of Ontario [citation needed], includes communities that are not included in the CMA, as defined by Statistics Canada. Extrapolating the data for all 25 communities in the Greater Toronto Area from the 2021 Census, the total population for the economic region ...
An 1880s survey map of Scarborough showing the original route of Sheppard (halfway up map on right) along Twyn Rivers Drive. Sheppard was a sideroad between lots 15 and 16 York Township [3] In the former Scarborough municipality, Sheppard was once called the Lansing Sideroad. A post office known as "Lansing" occupied the corner of Yonge and ...
The Annex is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The traditional boundaries of the neighbourhood are north to Dupont Street, south to Bloor Street, west to Bathurst Street and east to Avenue Road. [3] The City of Toronto recognizes a broader neighbourhood definition that includes the adjacent Seaton Village and Yorkville areas. [4]
The Hemingway Apartments. From 1923 to 1924, novelist Ernest Hemingway rented an apartment on Bathurst Street north of St. Clair Avenue while employed as a reporter for the Toronto Star. A historic plaque was placed on the building by the Toronto Historical Board. [15] Lawrence Manor; Lawrence Plaza; Little Norway Park; North York Branson Hospital
Lawrence Avenue was named after Jacob Lawrence, a tanner and farmer in the area of Yonge Street and Lawrence Avenue. [5] It was a side road between lots 5 and 6 in York Township. [ 6 ] Originally Lawrence Avenue ran only east of Yonge Street, with the road heading west to Weston being named McDougall Avenue.
In Toronto’s zoning maps, which designate the permitted land uses in a given area, the arterial roads making up the borders of the neighbourhood (Jane, Runnymede, and Bloor) are zoned as mixed use. The local roads within are predominantly residential, with the exception of Annette (a minor arterial road). [11]
People who lived or are associated to it included famous writers, artists: [3] Pierre Berton - Canadian historian and author; Ernest Hemingway - American novelist and reporter lived here during his time in Toronto around 1919-1920; Lawren Harris - Canadian painter and member of the Group of Seven; Albert Franck - Dutch-born Canadian painter