65 Facts About Toronto Ontario

Toronto Ontario is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.

Diverse population of Toronto Ontario reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada.

The Toronto Ontario City Council is a unicameral legislative body, comprising 25 councillors since the 2018 municipal election, representing geographical wards throughout the city.

Toronto Ontario is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media outlets.

Toronto Ontario is the third-largest tech hub in North America after Silicon Valley and New York City, and the fastest growing.

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The word "Toronto Ontario", meaning "plenty" appears in a 1632 French lexicon of the Huron language, which is an Iroquoian language.

Site of Toronto lay at the entrance to one of the oldest routes to the northwest, a route known and used by the Huron, Iroquois, and Ojibwe, and was of strategic importance from the beginning of Ontario's recorded history.

The first 25 years after the Toronto Ontario purchase was quiet, although "there were occasional independent fur traders" present in the area, with the usual complaints of debauchery and drunkenness.

Reformist politician William Lyon Mackenzie became the first mayor of Toronto Ontario and led the unsuccessful Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 against the British colonial government.

Toronto Ontario became the largest alcohol distillation centre in North America.

In 1967, the seven smallest municipalities of Metropolitan Toronto Ontario were merged with larger neighbours, resulting in a six-municipality configuration that included the former city of Toronto Ontario and the surrounding municipalities of East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, and York.

Toronto Ontario's population grew to more than one million in 1951 when large-scale suburbanization began and doubled to two million by 1971.

Toronto Ontario called in the Canadian Army to aid snow removal by use of their equipment to augment police and emergency services.

Toronto Ontario hosted WorldPride in June 2014, and the Pan and Parapan American Games in 2015.

Toronto Ontario covers an area of 630 square kilometres, with a maximum north–south distance of 21 kilometres .

Toronto Ontario Islands were a natural peninsula until a storm in 1858 severed their connection to the mainland, creating a channel to the harbour.

City of Toronto Ontario has a hot summer humid continental climate, though was on the threshold of a warm summer humid continental climate until the 20th century but still found in the metropolitan region, with warm, humid summers and cold winters.

Toronto Ontario encompasses an area formerly administered by several separate municipalities that were amalgamated over the years.

Pre-amalgamation City of Toronto Ontario covers the downtown core and older neighbourhoods to the east, west, and north of it.

Old Toronto Ontario is home to many historically wealthy residential enclaves, such as Yorkville, Rosedale, The Annex, Forest Hill, Lawrence Park, Lytton Park, Deer Park, Moore Park, and Casa Loma, most stretching away from downtown to the north.

The first neighbourhoods affected were Leaside and North Toronto Ontario, gradually progressing into the western neighbourhoods in York.

Examples included the Gooderham and Worts Distillery, Canadian Malting Company, the Toronto Ontario Rolling Mills, the Union Stockyards and the Davies pork processing facility .

Toronto Ontario still has some active older industrial areas, such as Brockton Village, Mimico and New Toronto Ontario.

The Waterfront Toronto Ontario agency has developed plans for a naturalized mouth to the Don River and to create a flood barrier around the Don, making more of the land on the harbour suitable for higher-value residential and commercial development.

Toronto Ontario's economy has seen a steady boom in growth thanks to a large number of corporations relocating their Canadian headquarters into the city, and Canada's growing cultural significance.

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Toronto Ontario is one of the centres of Canada's film and television industry, due in part to the lower cost of production in Canada.

Toronto Ontario is a large hub of the Canadian and global technology industry, generating $52 billion in revenues annually.

Real estate is a major force in the city's economy, Toronto Ontario is home to some of the nation's—and the world's—most expensive real estate.

In spring 2012, Toronto Ontario Place closed after a decline in attendance over the years.

The Toronto Ontario International Film Festival is an annual event celebrating the international film industry.

Toronto Ontario's buildings vary in design and age with many structures dating back to the early 19th century, while other prominent buildings were just newly built in the first decade of the 21st century.

In contrast, since 2000, amid the Canadian property bubble, Toronto Ontario has experienced a period of condo construction boom and architectural revival, with several buildings by world-renowned architects having opened.

The Toronto Ontario Islands are close to downtown Toronto Ontario, and do not permit private motor vehicles beyond the airport.

Royal Toronto Ontario Museum is a museum of world culture and natural history.

The Art Gallery of Toronto Ontario contains a large collection of Canadian, European, African and contemporary artwork, and plays host to exhibits from museums and galleries all over the world.

Toronto Ontario is home to Casa Loma, the former estate of Sir Henry Pellatt, a prominent Toronto Ontario financier, industrialist and military man.

Toronto Ontario has a diverse array of public spaces, from city squares to public parks overlooking ravines.

The Toronto Ontario Public Space Committee is an advocacy group concerned with the city's public spaces.

Toronto Ontario is represented in five major league sports, with teams in the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, Canadian Football League, and Major League Soccer .

Toronto Ontario is home to the Toronto Ontario Maple Leafs, one of the NHL's Original Six clubs, and has served as home to the Hockey Hall of Fame since 1958.

In 2016, Toronto Ontario hosted the 65th NBA All-Star game, the first to be held outside the United States.

Toronto Ontario is represented in soccer by the Toronto Ontario FC MLS team, who have won seven Canadian Championship titles, as well as the MLS Cup in 2017 and the Supporters' Shield for best regular season record, in 2017.

Toronto Ontario has a high level of participation in soccer across the city at several smaller stadiums and fields.

Toronto Ontario FC had entered the league as an expansion team in 2007.

The Rock formerly shared the Scotiabank Arena with the Maple Leafs and the Raptors, However, the Toronto Ontario Rock moved to the nearby city of Hamilton while retaining its Toronto Ontario name.

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Toronto Ontario has hosted several National Football League exhibition games at the Rogers Centre.

Toronto Ontario Wolfpack became Canada's first professional rugby league team and the world's first transatlantic professional sports team when they began play in the Rugby Football League's League One competition in 2017.

Toronto Ontario is home to the Toronto Ontario Rush, a semi-professional ultimate team that competes in the American Ultimate Disc League .

Many post-secondary institutions in Toronto Ontario are members of U Sports or the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association, the former for universities and the latter for colleges.

Toronto Ontario was home to the International Bowl, an NCAA sanctioned post-season college football game that pitted a Mid-American Conference team against a Big East Conference team.

Toronto Ontario hosted the 2015 Pan American Games in July 2015, and the 2015 Parapan American Games in August 2015.

Toronto Ontario was a candidate city for the 1996 and 2008 Summer Olympics, which were awarded to Atlanta and Beijing respectively.

Toronto Ontario is among various cities in North America to host matches during soccer's 2026 FIFA World Cup.

The Toronto Ontario City Council is a unicameral legislative body, comprising 25 councillors, since the 2018 municipal election, representing geographical wards throughout the city.

In 2005, Toronto Ontario media coined the term "Year of the Gun", because of a record number of gun-related homicides, 52, out of 80 homicides in total.

Total number of homicides in Toronto Ontario reached a record 96 in 2018; the number included fatalities from the Toronto Ontario van attack and the Danforth shooting.

In 2007, Toronto was reported as having some of the longer average emergency room waiting times in Ontario.

Toronto Ontario's Discovery District is a centre of research in biomedicine.

Toronto Ontario has an extensive network of bicycle lanes and multi-use trails and paths.

In 2015, the Toronto Ontario government promised to fund Line 6 Finch West which is to be completed by 2023.

Toronto Coach Terminal in downtown Toronto serves as a hub for intercity bus services in Southern Ontario, served by multiple companies and providing a comprehensive network of services in Ontario and neighbouring provinces and states.

The main municipal expressways in Toronto Ontario include the Gardiner Expressway, the Don Valley Parkway, and to some extent, Allen Road.

TDSB operates the most schools among the four Toronto Ontario-based school boards, with 451 elementary schools, 105 secondary schools, and five adult learning centres.

The University of Toronto Ontario operates two satellite campuses, one of which is in the city's eastern district of Scarborough, while the other is in the neighbouring city of Mississauga.

Toronto Ontario contains the headquarters of the major English-language Canadian television networks CBC, CTV, Citytv, Global, The Sports Network and Sportsnet.

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