. . Bytown (now Ottawa) Ninety-two per cent of the land in the province inhabited by about 35% of the population is under provincial administration and has no local elected representation the 51% of the province that is Crown land is administered by the Department of Energy and Resource Development Most of the province is administrated as a local service district (LSD) an unincorporated unit of local governance as of 2017 there are 237 LSDs Services paid for by property taxes include a variety of services such as fire protection solid waste management street lighting and dog regulation LSDs may elect advisory committees and work with the Department of Local Government to recommend how to spend locally collected taxes In 2006 there were three rural communities This is a relatively new entity; to be created it requires a population of 3,000 and a tax base of $200 million in 2006 there were 101 municipalities Regional Service Commissions which number 12 were introduced in 2013 to regulate regional planning and solid waste disposal and provide a forum for discussion on a regional level of police and emergency services climate change adaptation planning and regional sport recreational and cultural facilities the commissions' administrative councils are populated by the mayors of each municipality or rural community within a region Historically the province was divided into counties with elected governance but this was abolished in 1966 These were subdivided into 152 parishes which also lost their political significance in 1966 but are still used as census subdivisions by Statistics Canada Provincial finances. Lobbyists Registrar 12 Associations Wetlands on a lakeshore Moravians 1,778 5.6 School violence See also: Annual events in Toronto List of festivals in Toronto and Recreation in Toronto. 64 2718, Administrative areas of New Brunswick:, Givins St School (1859) Most of these gangs were simply loose-knit groups of juvenile delinquents involved mainly in low-level petty crimes such as gambling shop-lifting and pick-pocketing (Rogers was actually robbed by members of the King Gang while attempting to interview them) the composition of the gangs were mainly poor Caucasian youth of British descent although some were more ethnically diverse such as the George Gang (Jewish) the Mix Gang (Black) and the Aggies (Polish & Ukrainian) Current prevalence of youth gangs; 1 History Historic cannon at Fort Niagara; Toronto across the lake, Church St School (1872) HMS Sir Issac Brock being built in York Both sides engaged in building freshwater fleets in an effort to gain naval supremacy in Lake Ontario York the capital of Upper Canada stood on the north shore of Lake Ontario During the War of 1812 the lake was both the front line between Upper Canada and the United States and served as the principal British supply line from Quebec to the various forces and outposts to the west At the start of the war the British had a small naval force the Provincial Marine with which they seized control of the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie This was made it possible because of Major General Isaac Brock who led British forces in Upper Canada to several important victories in 1812 by shifting his small force rapidly between threatened points to defeat disjointed American attacks individually The United States Navy appointed Commodore Isaac Chauncey to regain control of the lakes He created a squadron of fighting ships at Sackett's Harbor New York by purchasing and arming several lake schooners and laying down new purpose-built fighting vessels However no decisive action was possible before the onset of winter during which the ships of both sides were confined to harbour by ice to match Chauncey's shipbuilding efforts the British laid down the sloop of war Wolfe at Kingston; and HMS Sir Isaac Brock at York Naval Shipyards Prelude. . .
Current roster Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory; ! A map highlighting the Canadas with Upper Canada in orange and Lower Canada in green in 1841 the two colonies were united to form the Province of Canada Although both rebellions were put down in short order the British government sent Lord Durham to investigate the causes He recommended self-government be granted and Lower and Upper Canada be re-joined in an attempt to assimilate the French Canadians Accordingly the two colonies were merged into the Province of Canada by the Act of Union 1840 with the capital at Kingston and Upper Canada becoming known as Canada West. Parliamentary self-government was granted in 1848 There were heavy waves of immigration in the 1840s and the population of Canada West more than doubled by 1851 over the previous decade As a result for the first time the English-speaking population of Canada West surpassed the French-speaking population of Canada East tilting the representative balance of power An economic boom in the 1850s coincided with railway expansion across the province further increasing the economic strength of Central Canada With the repeal of the Corn Laws and a reciprocity agreement in place with the United States various industries such as timber mining farming and alcohol distilling benefited tremendously A political stalemate between the French- and English-speaking legislators as well as fear of aggression from the United States during and immediately after the American Civil War led the political elite to hold a series of conferences in the 1860s to effect a broader federal union of all British North American colonies the British North America Act took effect on July 1 1867 establishing the Dominion of Canada initially with four provinces: Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec and Ontario the Province of Canada was divided into Ontario and Quebec so that each linguistic group would have its own province Both Quebec and Ontario were required by section 93 of the British North America Act to safeguard existing educational rights and privileges of Protestant and the Catholic minority Thus separate Catholic schools and school boards were permitted in Ontario However neither province had a constitutional requirement to protect its French- or English-speaking minority Toronto was formally established as Ontario's provincial capital Provincehood, Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory 1 Team history Geography and Environmental Studies Main article: Hotels in Toronto. . ; . . .
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