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15 Facts About New Toronto

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New Toronto is a neighbourhood and former municipality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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The Town of New Toronto was established in 1890, and was designed and planned as an industrial centre by a group of industrialists from Toronto who had visited Rochester, New York.

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New Toronto was originally a part of the Township of Etobicoke.

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New Toronto is a neighbourhood in transition, as the industrial corridor located at the north end of the community is being redeveloped after having been vacant and fallow for many years.

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New Toronto was planned and designed as a "town", with manufacturing as its focal point, but including retail business and residential areas in the plan.

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6.

The Town of New Toronto would become a fully independent, self-sufficient municipality.

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The next year, the pastor of Mimico's Methodist Church began holding separate services in New Toronto, establishing a church building as a branch of Mimico's new Methodist Circuit in 1909.

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In 1913, New Toronto was incorporated as a separate village, with a population of 500.

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New Toronto became a fully independent municipality in 1920 and established a Library Association.

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10.

In New Toronto, to serve the large local population of Ukrainians who had settled in the area over the years, St Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church was built in 1954 on Sixth Street .

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11.

In 1967, the Town of New Toronto was amalgamated with the other Lake Shore municipalities with Etobicoke to create the new Borough of Etobicoke.

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12.

Goodyear Canada Inc, which was the largest employer in New Toronto, shut down its plant contributing to a general loss of employment in the area.

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Recent attempts to rejuvenate New Toronto include the protection of remaining industrial lands for employment.

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14.

St Teresa's school was established in 1957 during a post war population boom in the, then independent, Town of New Toronto, including many families from predominantly Catholic countries, especially Poland.

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New Toronto always had a large industrial base including plants operated by: Ritchie and Ramsay Co.

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