Uxbridge Green tick Green tick 9.2 Post-secondary education French colony. . Conseil scolaire Viamonde is a French first language secular school board headquartered in Toronto The following public school boards operate secular schools in Toronto:, 1 Etymology See also: Franco-Ontarian Since the 2015 election the Greater Toronto Area is represented by 47 Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada Forty-six Members of Provincial Parliament also represent the GTA in the Ontario Legislature Five Senators from Ontario have also designated themselves as representatives of certain areas in the GTA in the Canadian Senate Federal politics. The business programs housed on campus in the "Business Building" moved into new facilities after a $15 million donation from Ted Rogers the school is within a new wing of the Toronto Eaton Centre at the southeast corner of Bay and Dundas Streets the school occupies three floors of the nine-floor wing (two floors are occupied by retail uses with an above-grade parking garage occupying the remaining three storeys) the integration of the Ryerson faculty with commercial uses in the same building has been praised as an innovative solution for the downtown university The school received national notoriety when one of its professors (James Norrie) insulted the cast of the Dragons' Den during the final negotiations stage of a successful pitch by students of the school the deal ultimately fell through because of the professor's actions the same professor was later banned from campus and sued the university Faculty of Arts.
Development of the Great Lakes following the end of the Last Glacial Period the first human settlers arrived in the area 11,000 to 10,500 years ago as the glaciers retreated from the area Toronto remained under glacial ice throughout the Last Glacial Period with the glacial ice retreating from the area during the Late Glacial warming period approximately 13,000 BCE Following the Last Glacial Period Toronto's waterfront shifted with the growth and later contraction of glacial Lake Iroquois the area saw its first human settlers around 9000 BCE to 8,500 BCE These settlers traversed large distances in family-sized bands sustaining themselves on caribou mammoths mastodons and smaller animals in the tundra and Boreal forest. Many of their archaeological remains lie in present-day Lake Ontario with the historic coastline of Lake Iroquois situated 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Toronto during this period As the climate warmed in 6,000 BCE the environment of Toronto shifted to a temperate climate the Toronto waterfront also changed dramatically during this period with erosion from the Scarborough Bluffs accumulating and rising water levels from Lake Ontario creating a peninsula that would later become the Toronto Islands First Nations settlements, York (now Toronto) capital of Upper Canada. . Gibraltar Point Lighthouse Main article: Canadian Classique 2.1 Trustees. . Main articles: Mennonite Society of Friends (Upper Canada) and the Children of Peace Federally the Conservatives Liberals and the New Democrats (NDP) all hold several electoral districts in the GTA the City of Toronto has often been supportive of the Liberal Party Traditionally Liberal support is strongest in Downtown Toronto while Conservative support is stronger in the surrounding communities outside Toronto the NDP also has a strong base within the GTA the Greater Toronto Area has the ability to influence election results and determine the governing party in Canada due in part to its large population and riding count From 1993 to 2011 a centre-right party failed to win a single seat in the former Metro Toronto in the 2011 election however a surge in NDP support combined with a collapse in Liberal support allowed the Conservatives to win eight seats in Toronto itself and another 24 in the suburbs Toronto's political leanings now appeared to mirror those of surrounding communities that leaned toward the Conservatives The election of 2011 showed Liberal support based on votes in the GTA had collapsed from 43.7% to 30.6% giving the Liberals only 14.9% of the local seats in the House of Commons However the support of the Conservatives and NDP increased accordingly with the Conservatives increasing their vote share from 31.5% to 42.2% (and capturing 68.1% of the GTA seats) and the NDP increasing from 14.6% to 23.2% of the vote and 17% of the local Federal ridings In the 2015 federal election the Liberals regained their dominance of the GTA after suffering devastating losses there four years earlier They defeated a number of prominent incumbents from both the NDP and the Conservatives the Liberals took all of Toronto itself They also took back almost all of the suburban ridings they had lost in 2011 Both the NDP and the Conservatives suffered heavily as their support collapsed in the inner city and the suburbs respectively Only a few Conservatives held onto their seats in the outer ring of the GTA while the NDP failed to elect any MPs in this area Federal Elections in the GTA 2000 2004 2006 2008 2011 2015; 3.1 Family Compact See also: History of Toronto 1970 Nineteenth century. ! Baitul Mukarram Academy The Toronto ravine system acted as a barrier towards development resulting in most ravines being left close to their natural state the ravine system had since been adopted as a central piece of Toronto's landscape Landscape.
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