Toronto is an Canadian City.
History[]
When Europeans first arrived at the site of present-day Toronto, the vicinity was inhabited by the Iroquois who had displaced the Huron people, occupants of the region for centuries before 1500 Toronto'' is likely derived an Iroquoian word , meaning "place where trees stand in the water". This refers to the northern end of what is now Lake Simcoe, where the Huron had planted tree saplings to corral fish. However, the word "Toronto", meaning "plenty" also appears in a 1632 French lexicon of the Huron language, which is also an Iroquoian language. It also appears on French maps referring to various locations, including Georgian Bay, Lake Simcoe, and several rivers.A portage route from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron running through this point, known as the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail led to widespread use of the name.
During the American Revolutionary War, an influx of British Empire] settlers came here as United Empire Loyalists fled for the British-controlled lands north of Lake Ontario. The Crown granted them land to compensate for their losses in the Thirteen Colonies. The new province of Upper Canada was being created and needed a capital. In 1787, the British Lord Dorchester arranged for the Toronto Purchase with the Mississauga of the New Credit First Nation, thereby securing more than a quarter of a million acres of land in the Toronto area.
In 1793, Governor John Graves Simcoe established the town of York on the Toronto Purchase lands, naming it after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany Simcoe decided to move the Upper Canada capital from was built at the entrance of the town's natural harbor, sheltered by a long sand-bar peninsula. The town's settlement formed at the harbor's eastern end behind the peninsula, near the present-day intersection of Parliament Street and Front Street in the Old Town Area.
Residents[]
Current[]
- Diane McAdams
Former[]
- Logan (dead)
- Rachel
- Elena
- Phillip (dead)
Trivia[]
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