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Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory Faculty of Science Census division Census subdivision In GTA Toronto CMA Oshawa CMA The Distillery District holds the largest collection of preserved Victorian industrial architecture in North America In the 1800s a thriving industrial area developed around Toronto Harbour and lower Don River mouth linked by rail and water to Canada and the United States Examples included the Gooderham and Worts Distillery Canadian Malting Company the Toronto Rolling Mills the Union Stockyards and the Davies pork processing facility (the inspiration for the "Hogtown" nickname) This industrial area expanded west along the harbour and rail lines and was supplemented by the infilling of the marshlands on the east side of the harbour to create the Port Lands a garment industry developed along lower Spadina Avenue the "Fashion District" Beginning in the late 19th century industrial areas were set up on the outskirts such as West Toronto/The Junction where the Stockyards relocated in 1903 the Great Fire of 1904 destroyed a large amount of industry in the downtown Some of the companies moved west along King Street some as far west as Dufferin Street; where the large Massey-Harris farm equipment manufacturing complex was located. Over time pockets of industrial land mostly followed rail lines and later highway corridors as the city grew outwards This trend continues to this day the largest factories and distribution warehouses are in the suburban environs of Peel and York Regions; but also within the current city: Etobicoke (concentrated around Pearson Airport) North York and Scarborough The West Don Lands is one of many former industrial sites in the downtown area that has undergone redevelopment Many of Toronto's former industrial sites close to (or in) Downtown have been redeveloped including parts of the Toronto waterfront the rail yards west of downtown and Liberty Village the Massey-Harris district and large-scale development is underway in the West Don Lands the Gooderham & Worts Distillery produced spirits until 1990 and is preserved today as the "Distillery District," the largest and best-preserved collection of Victorian industrial architecture in North America. Some industry remains in the area including the Redpath Sugar Refinery Similar areas that retain their industrial character but are now largely residential are the Fashion District Corktown and parts of South Riverdale and Leslieville Toronto still has some active older industrial areas such as Brockton Village Mimico and New Toronto in the west end of Old Toronto and York the Weston/Mount Dennis and the Junction areas still contain factories meat-packing facilities and rail yards close to medium-density residential although the Junction's Union Stockyards moved out of Toronto in 1994 The "brownfield" industrial area of the Port Lands on the east side of the harbour is one area planned for redevelopment. Formerly a marsh that was filled in to create industrial space it was never intensely developed its land unsuitable for large-scale development because of flooding and unstable soil it still contains numerous industrial uses such as the Portlands Energy Centre power plant some port facilities some movie and TV production studios a concrete processing facility and various low-density industrial facilities the Waterfront Toronto 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 a former chemicals plant site along the Don River is slated to become a large commercial complex and transportation hub Public spaces! !

. . To finance operations the municipality levied property taxes in 1850 Toronto also started levying income taxes. Toronto levied personal income taxes until 1936 and corporate income taxes until 1944 Until 1914 Toronto grew by annexing neighbouring municipalities such as Parkdale and Seaton Village After 1914 Toronto stopped annexing bordering municipalities although some municipalities overwhelmed by growth requested it After World War II an extensive group of suburban villages and townships surrounded Toronto Change to the legal structure came in 1954 with the creation of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto (known more popularly as "Metro") in 1954 This new regional government which encompassed Toronto and the smaller communities of East York Etobicoke Forest Hill Leaside Long Branch Mimico New Toronto North York Scarborough Swansea Weston and York was created by the Government of Ontario to support suburban growth This new municipality could borrow money on its own for capital projects and it received taxes from all municipalities including Toronto which meant that the Toronto tax base was now available to support the suburban growth the new regional government built highways water systems and public transit while the thirteen townships villages towns and cities continued to provide some local services to their residents to manage the yearly upkeep of the new infrastructure the new regional government levied its own property tax collected by the local municipalities On January 1 1967 several of the smaller municipalities were amalgamated with larger ones reducing their number to six Forest Hill and Swansea became part of Toronto; Long Branch Mimico and New Toronto joined Etobicoke; Weston merged with York; and Leaside amalgamated with East York This arrangement lasted until 1998 when the regional level of government was abolished and Etobicoke North York East York York and Scarborough were amalgamated into Toronto the "megacity" Mel Lastman the long-time mayor of North York before the amalgamation was the first mayor (62nd overall) of the new "megacity" of Toronto which is the successor of the previous City of Toronto Existing by-laws of the individual municipalities were retained until such time that new citywide by-laws could be written and enacted New citywide by-laws have been enacted although many of the individual differences were continued applying only to the districts where the by-laws applied such as winter sidewalk clearing and garbage pickup the existing city halls of the various municipalities were retained by the new corporation the City of York's civic centre became a court office the existing 1965 City Hall of Toronto became the city hall of the new megacity while the "city hall" of the Metro government is used as municipal office space The census metropolitan areas listed below are within the Greater Golden Horseshoe Not all land within the Greater Golden Horseshoe is part of a Census Metropolitan Area; some Census Metropolitan Areas are partly in the Golden Horseshoe and partly outside it Toronto 5,928,040! .