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Defunct institutions One study has reported that approximately 2,400 high school students in Toronto claim to have carried a gun at least once between 2004 and 2005. Research has found that most youth gang-related crime consists of property offences, drugs sales drug use and physical conflicts with other gangs Social activities are more widely reported amongst self-identified youth gang members than criminal activities. Murder and other more grievous types of crime are uncommon Demographics of youth gang members, Three universities based outside of the GTA operate satellite campuses within the GTA including McMaster University Trent University and the University of Guelph the Ron Joyce Centre in Burlington is a 4.5-acre (1.8-hectare) site mainly used by the McMaster's DeGroote School of Business. Trent University also operates a satellite campus in Oshawa known as Trent in Oshawa. Guelph's Humber Campus is in Etobicoke Toronto The Greater Toronto Area is also home to six publicly funded colleges, which have campuses spread in and around the Greater Toronto Area the six publicly funded colleges are:. Main article: Great Lakes passenger steamers, characterized by buildings on small lots (frontages less than 12.5 metres (41 ft)) ranging in height from 2 to 5 storeys These buildings have street-related retail uses at grade and residential uses above Typically they are built to the lot line and span the width of the lot These characteristics produce the familiar retail strip in which there is a continuous wall of retail activity and there is a direct relationship between the main entrance of a store and the public sidewalk The Main Street is the concept of small avenues and store frontages on busy roads which maintain the vitality of communities and the continuity of the streetscape Shopping centres, University President Sheldon Levy announced December 1 2009 that the school would acquire and renovate the Maple Leaf Gardens for use as a university athletic facility at an estimated cost of $60 million the cost was split three ways between the Canadian federal government Ryerson University and Loblaws. Known as the Mattamy Athletic Centre the facility includes sports venues and classrooms on upper levels the street and lower levels feature a Loblaws supermarket a Joe Fresh store an LCBO store and parking Ryerson and Loblaws each own their space The Mattamy Athletic Centre (commonly known as the "MAC") has full size basketball and volleyball courts the Mattamy Home Ice (NHL sized skating rink) a cardio room fitness centre with dumbbells and additional fitness machines Elizabeth Wyn Wood's Bas-relief at Ryerson University in Toronto. . . 9.2 CONCACAF Champions League Toronto Argonauts CFL Football BMO Field 1873 17 (last in 2017), The Toronto Maple Leafs officially the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club and often simply referred to as the Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto Ontario They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL) the club is owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd and are represented by Chairman Larry Tanenbaum the Maple Leafs' broadcasting rights are split between BCE Inc and Rogers Communications for their first 14 seasons the club played their home games at the Mutual Street Arena before moving to Maple Leaf Gardens in 1931 the Maple Leafs moved to their present home Scotiabank Arena (originally named the Air Canada Centre) in February 1999 The club was founded in 1917 operating simply as Toronto and known then as the Toronto Arenas Under new ownership the club was renamed the Toronto St Patricks in 1919 in 1927 the club was purchased by Conn Smythe and renamed the Maple Leafs a member of the "Original Six" the club was one of six NHL teams to have endured through the period of League retrenchment during the Great Depression the club has won thirteen Stanley Cup championships second only to the 24 championships of the Montreal Canadiens the Maple Leafs history includes two recognized dynasties from 1947 to 1951; and from 1962 to 1967. Winning their last championship in 1967 the Maple Leafs' 51-season drought between championships is the longest current drought in the NHL the Maple Leafs have developed rivalries with four NHL franchises: the Boston Bruins Detroit Red Wings the Montreal Canadiens and the Ottawa Senators The Maple Leafs have retired the use of thirteen numbers in honour of nineteen players in addition a number of individuals who hold an association with the club have been inducted in the Hockey Hall of Fame the Maple Leafs are presently affiliated with two minor league teams the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League and the Newfoundland Growlers of the ECHL Contents; Three universities based outside of the GTA operate satellite campuses within the GTA including McMaster University Trent University and the University of Guelph the Ron Joyce Centre in Burlington is a 4.5-acre (1.8-hectare) site mainly used by the McMaster's DeGroote School of Business. Trent University also operates a satellite campus in Oshawa known as Trent in Oshawa. Guelph's Humber Campus is in Etobicoke Toronto The Greater Toronto Area is also home to six publicly funded colleges, which have campuses spread in and around the Greater Toronto Area the six publicly funded colleges are:. A map of the Toronto purchase notable is the British surveyor's insistence on using a grid instead of using the natural features to demarcate boundaries such as Etobicoke Creek Under the Treaty of Paris which ended the conflict between Great Britain and its former colonies the boundary of British North America was set in the middle of the Great Lakes This made the land north of the border more important strategically and as the place for Loyalists to settle after the war in 1781 the Mississaugas surrendered a strip of land along the Niagara River and in 1783 land on the Bay of Quinte for the Mohawks who had been loyal to the British to settle (today's Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory) Between 1783 and 1785 10,000 Loyalists arrived and were settling on land the Crown had recognized as Indian Land in 1784 the Mississaugas surrendered more land in the Niagara peninsula including land on the Grand River for the Iroquois In 1786 Lord Dorchester arrived in Quebec City as Governor-in-Chief of British North America His mission was to solve the problems of the newly landed Loyalists at first Dorchester suggested opening the new Canada West as districts under the Quebec government but the British Government made known its intention to split Canada into Upper and Lower Canada Dorchester began organizing for the new province of Upper Canada including a capital Dorchester's first choice was Kingston but was aware of the number of Loyalists in the Bay of Quinte and Niagara areas and chose instead the location north of the Bay of Toronto midway between the settlements and 30 miles (48 km) from the US Under the policy of the time the British recognized aboriginal title to the land and Dorchester arranged to purchase the lands from the Mississaugas The 1787 purchase according to British records was conducted on September 23 1787 at the "Carrying-Place" of Bay of Quinte the British crown and the Mississaugas of New Credit met to arrange for the surrender of lands along Lake Ontario in the case of the Toronto area the Mississaugas of New Credit exchanged 250,808 acres (101,498 ha) of land in what became York County (most of current Toronto and the Regional Municipality of York bounded by Lake Ontario to the south approximately Etobicoke Creek/Highway 27 to the west approximately Ashbridge's Bay/Woodbine Avenue-Highway 404 to the east and approximately south of Sideroad 15-Bloomington Road to the north) for some money 2,000 gun flints 24 brass kettles 120 mirrors 24 laced hats a bale of flowered flannel and 96 gallons of rum At the time the Mississaugas believed that the agreement was not a purchase extinguishing their rights to the land but a rental of the lands for British use in exchange for gifts and presents in perpetuity In 1788 surveyor Alexander Aitken was assigned to conduct a survey of the Toronto site the Mississaugas blocked him for surveying west of the Humber saying the lands to the west had not been ceded Aitken was only allowed to survey the land after British authorities interceded with the Mississaugas Aitken surveyed west to Etobicoke Creek but did not survey more than a few miles from the lake before stopping to avoid further confrontation 1805 indenture; .

Incorporated in Canada West (1841-1867), In the 2011 census 84% of provincial residents reported themselves as Christian: 52% were Roman Catholic 8% Baptist 8% United Church of Canada and 7% Anglican Fifteen percent of residents reported no religion Economy, See also: History of neighbourhoods in Toronto and List of neighbourhoods in Toronto. .