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! . 11 See also S Methodists 82,923 6.2.3 Bank wars: the Scottish joint-stock banks. ! 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. .

Main article: Clergy Corporation In 2011 the most commonly reported religion in Toronto was Christianity adhered to by 54.1% of the population a plurality 28.2% of the city's population was Catholic followed by Protestants (11.9%) Christian Orthodox (4.3%) and members of other Christian denominations (9.7%) Other religions significantly practised in the city are Islam (8.2%) Hinduism (5.6%) Judaism (3.8%) Buddhism (2.7%) and Sikhism (0.8%) Those with no religious affiliation made up 24.2% of Toronto's population Language. 5.1 Current roster French colony Father Alexander Macdonell was a Scottish Catholic priest who formed his evicted clan into the Glengarry Fencibles regiment of which he served as chaplain He was the first Catholic chaplain in the British Army since the Reformation When the regiment was disbanded Rev Macdonell appealed to the government to grant its members a tract of land in Canada and in 1804 160,000 acres (650 km2) were provided in what is now Glengarry County Canada in 1815 he began his service as the first Roman Catholic Bishop at St Raphael's Church in the Highlands of Ontario in 1819 he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Upper Canada which in 1826 was erected into a suffragan bishopric of the Archdiocese of Quebec in 1826 he was appointed to the legislative council Macdonell's role on the Legislative Council was one of the tensions with the Toronto congregation led by Father William O'Grady O'Grady like Macdonell had served as an army chaplain (to Connell James Baldwin's soldiers in Brazil) O'Grady followed Baldwin to Toronto Gore Township in 1828 From January 1829 he was pastor of St Paul's church in York Tensions between the Scottish and Irish came to a head when O'Grady was defrocked in part for his activities in the Reform movement He went on to edit a Reform newspaper in Toronto the Canadian Correspondent Ryerson and the Methodists. . . . .