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Bürgermeister : Olivia Chow. Website : www.toronto.ca. Skyline Torontos (2021) Toronto ( englische Aussprache [ təˈɹɒn (t)oʊ̯ ]; regional auch [təˈɹɒnə] oder [ ˈtɹɒnoʊ̯ ]) ist mit 2,96 Millionen Einwohnern [4] die größte Stadt Kanadas und die Hauptstadt der Provinz Ontario.
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Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the fourth-most populous city in North America.
Willkommen. Toronto bei Nacht. Toronto [təˈɹɒntoʊ] ist mit 2,6 Millionen Einwohnern die größte Stadt Kanadas und Hauptstadt der Provinz Ontario. Sie liegt im Golden Horseshoe (Goldenes Hufeisen), einer Region mit über 8,7 Millionen Einwohnern, die sich halbkreisförmig um das westliche Ende des Ontariosees bis zu den ...
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Toronto was originally used on maps dating to the late 17th and early 18th century to refer to Lake Simcoe and the portage route to it. Eventually, the name was brought down to the mouth of the Humber River, which is where the present City of Toronto is situated. The bay serves as the end of the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail portage route from Lake ...
Lithic and Archaic periods
Toronto remained under glacial ice throughout the Last Glacial Period, with the glacial ice retreating from the area during the Late Glacial warming period approximately 13,000 BCE. Following the Last Glacial Period, Toronto's waterfront shifted with the growth, and later contraction of glacial Lake Iroquois. The area saw its first human settlers around 9000 BCE to 8,500 BCE. These settlers traversed large distances in family-sized bands, sustaining themselves on caribou, mammoths, mastodons,...
Formative to Classic stage
First Nations fishing camps were established around the waterways of Toronto as early as 1,000 BCE. By 500 CE, up to 500 people lived along each of the three major rivers of Toronto (Don, Humber, and Rouge River). Early on, First Nations communities had developed trails and water routes in the Toronto area. These led from northern and western Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. One trail, known as the "Toronto Passage", followed the Humber River northward as an important overland shortcut between L...
Post-classic stage
Several Iroquoian villages dating back to the 1200s have been excavated in Toronto, including an ossuary in Scarborough. From the 1300s to the 1500s, the Iroquoian inhabitants of the area migrated north of Toronto, joining the developing Huron-Wendat Confederacy. During this period, the Huron-Wendat confederacy used Toronto as a hinterland for hunting, with the Toronto Passage continuing to see use as a north–south route. The northeast portion of Toronto also held two 14th century Iroquoian b...
In May 1793, Lieutenant-Colonel John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant-governor of the newly organized province of Upper Canada, visited Toronto for the first time. Simcoe was unhappy with the then-capital of Upper Canada Newark, and proposed moving it to the site of present-day London, Ontario but was dissuaded by the difficulty of building a ro...
The town was incorporated on March 6, 1834, reverting to the name of "Toronto" to distinguish it from New York City, as well as about a dozen other localities named 'York' in the province (including York County in which Toronto was situated), and to disassociate itself from the negative connotation of dirty Little York, a common nickname for the to...
On January 1, 1998, Toronto was greatly enlarged, not through traditional annexations, but as an amalgamation of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto and its six lower-tier constituent municipalities; East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, York, and the original city itself. They were dissolved by an act of the Government of Ontario, an...
Hounsom, Eric Wilfrid (1970). Toronto in 1810. Toronto: Ryerson Press. ISBN 978-0-7700-0311-1.Levine, Allan (2014). Toronto: A Biography. Douglas and McIntyre. ISBN 978-1-77100-022-2.McGowan, Mark G. (1999). The Waning of the Green: Catholics, the Irish, and Identity in Toronto, 1887–1922. ISBN 9780773567467.McHugh, Patricia (1989). Toronto Architecture: A City Guide. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc. ISBN 978-0771055201.Anisef, Paul; Lanphier, C. Michael, eds. (2003). The World in a City. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802084361., history and impact of immigration to TorontoCareless, J. M. S. Brown of the Globe (2 vols, Toronto, 1959–63) online, leading editor of the mid-19th centuryDesfor, Gene and Roger Keil, eds. Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles(2004)Freeman, Victoria Jane. 'Toronto has no history!' Indigeneity, settler colonialism, and historical memory in Canada's largest city.(PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1970)Toronto: A Place of Meeting from the Toronto Public Library's virtual galleryThe History of the Battle of Toronto by William Lyon MacKenzie, 1839 from the Ontario Time MachineHistoricist articles on Toronto History by Torontoist.caToronto Boom Town, a 1951 National Film Board of Canadadocumentary covering the first half of the 20th centuryToronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario. It is also the largest city in Ontario. It is found on the north-west side of Lake Ontario behind New York City and Chicago. The City of Toronto itself has a population of almost 3 million people. Even more people live in the regions around it.
Toronto ist mit 2,96 Millionen Einwohnern die größte Stadt Kanadas und die Hauptstadt der Provinz Ontario. Sie liegt im Golden Horseshoe, einer Region mit über 8,1 Millionen Einwohnern, die sich halbkreisförmig um das westliche Ende des Ontariosees bis zu den Niagarafällen erstreckt.
Vor 3 Tagen · Toronto, city, capital of the province of Ontario, southeastern Canada. It is the most populous city in Canada, a multicultural city, and the country’s financial and commercial center. Its location on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario, which forms part of the border between Canada and the United States, and its access to ...
