Main article: Toronto subway Land was granted to these allied Six Nations who had served on the British side during the American Revolution by the Haldimand Proclamation (1784) Haldimand had purchased a tract of land from the Mississaugas the nature of the grant has been under dispute Loyalists and the land grant system. 6 Controversies 6 Cultural architecture 2 Prelude Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory See also: List of oldest buildings and structures in Toronto and List of tallest buildings in Toronto. ! Mural of the Toronto Maple Leafs at College subway station the Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey club with the NHL Toronto is represented in five major league sports with teams in the National Hockey League Major League Baseball National Basketball Association Canadian Football League and Major League Soccer it was formerly represented in a sixth and seventh; the USL W-League that announced on November 6 2015 that it would cease operation ahead of 2016 season and the Canadian Women's Hockey League ceased operations in May 2019 the city's major sports venues include the Scotiabank Arena (formerly Air Canada Centre) Rogers Centre (formerly SkyDome) Coca-Cola Coliseum (formerly Ricoh Coliseum) and BMO Field Professional sports. . Local service district 2007 20,134. !
Battle of Fort George 27 May 1813 Religious schools Main articles: Rebellions of 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion and Patriot War Semifinals Mexico Santos Laguna! 8.1 Rail Retired numbers Kingston Thomas Talbot emigrated in 1791 where he became personal secretary to John Graves Simcoe Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada Talbot convinced the government to allow him to implement a land settlement scheme of 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) in Elgin County in the townships of Dunwich and Aldborough in 1803. According to his government agreement he was entitled to 200 acres (80 ha) for every settler who received 50 acres (20 ha); in this way he gained an estate of 20,000 acres (8,000 ha) Talbot's administration was regarded as despotic He was infamous for registering settlers' names on the local settlement map in pencil and if displeased erasing their entry Talbot's abuse of power was a contributing factor in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 Crown and Clergy reserves. The Canadian Alliance Society was reborn as the Constitutional Reform Society (1836) when it was led by the more moderate reformer Dr William W Baldwin After the disastrous 1836 elections it took the final form as the Toronto Political Union in 1837 it was the Toronto Political Union that called for a Constitutional Convention in July 1837 and began organising local "Vigilance Committees" to elect delegates This became the organizational structure for the Rebellion of 1837 vte, 3.8% 1840 432,159 +5.6% 8 Midfielder Marky Delgado (HG) United States Expansion to the north end that cost $2 million added 1,249 seats and was completed for the start of the 2010 MLS Season a $120 million renovation to the stadium was officially announced September 23 2014 it includes a second tier of seating that would add 8,400 seats raising the capacity of the stadium to 30,991 New suites washrooms concourse and a roof would also be added Construction began in September 2014 and would be divided into two phases; the completion of the project was set for May 2016 the expansion would accommodate a Canadian football field with artificial turf end-zones when the Toronto Argonauts move to BMO Field in 2016, along with hosting the Grey Cup that year Club culture; . This section needs to be updated Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information (June 2018), 2011 12,851,821 +5.7% 10 See also, Thanks to its vast hinterland Toronto designers have had access to a wide array of raw materials for construction Due to the clay sediments of the former lake bed that Toronto is built upon and but more prominently the shale layer underlying this area of North America brick has been an especially cheap and available material for almost the city's entire history Much of it was provided by the Don Valley Brick Works Domtar's brick division Canada Brick and Brampton Brick whose output can still be found in thousands of structures across the city and throughout the surrounding regions Throughout the city most homes from all eras are made of brick Commercial and industrial builders also long embraced brick with the Distillery District being a prominent example though today more efficient materials such as cinder blocks are more common for commercial projects Prominent landmarks have also gone to greater expense and generally eschewed simple brick Older banks and government buildings used stone and modern attempts to marvel have embraced modern materials such as concrete and aluminum in addition to extensive glazing Even today the overwhelming bulk of residential buildings constructed in Toronto are clad in brick Sandstone was also historically a readily available building material with large deposits quarried from the Credit River valley More expensive than brick but more ornate it was used for many early landmarks such as the Ontario Legislature Old City Hall and Victoria College It is also the main material used in the unique Annex style house Industrial architecture. . De La Salle College, J Greenwood College School, A Inconsistency in source data B 1999: Lowest total since 1986 C 2018: Highest total to date In the late 1980s gangs in Toronto were becoming increasingly violent This coincided with the arrival of crack cocaine in the city which caused more gun violence to occur in low-income neighbourhoods in 1988 Toronto Police were under scrutiny for a series of shootings of unarmed black men dating back to the late 1970s in 1991 Toronto experienced its most violent year with 89 murders (that murder tally was surpassed in 2018) 16 of which were linked to drug wars involving rival gangs On May 4 1992 there were riots on Yonge Street which followed peaceful protesting of a fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by Toronto police the eighth such shooting in the last four years and fourth fatal one. Later that year local activist Dudley Laws claimed that police bias against Blacks was worse in Toronto than in Los Angeles Late 1990s. !
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