. The Greater Toronto Area is a commercial distribution financial and economic centre being the second largest financial centre in North America the region generates about a fifth of Canada's GDP and is home to 40% of Canada's business headquarters the economies of the municipalities in Greater Toronto are largely intertwined the work force is made up of approximately 2.9 million people and more than 100,000 companies the Greater Toronto Area produces nearly 20% of the entire nation's GDP with $323 Billion and from 1992 to 2002 experienced an average GDP growth rate of 4.0% and a job creation rate of 2.4% (compared to the national average GDP growth rate of 3% and job creation rate of 1.6%) A worker at Oakville Assembly installs a battery on a Ford Flex in 2010 the automotive industry accounted for roughly 10 percent of Greater Toronto's GDP In 2010 over 51% of the labour force in the Greater Toronto Area is employed in the service sector with 19% in the manufacturing 17% of the labour force employed in wholesale & retail trade 8% of the labour force involved in transportation communication & utilities and 5% of the workforce is involved in construction. Despite the fact the service industry makes up only 51% of Greater Toronto's workforce over 72% of the region's GDP is generated by service industries The largest industry in the Greater Toronto Area is the financial services in the province accounting for an estimated 25% of the region's GDP. Notably the five largest banks in Canada all have their operational headquarters in Toronto's Financial District. Toronto is also home to the headquarters of the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Standard and Poor TSX Composite Index and offices of the TSX Venture Exchange the TMX Group the owners and operators of TSX Exchanges as well as the Montreal Exchange are also headquartered in Toronto the TSX and the TSX Venture Exchange represent 3,369 companies including more than half of the world's publicly traded mining companies Markham also attracted the highest concentration of high tech companies in Canada and because of it has positioned itself as Canada's High-Tech Capital the Greater Toronto Area is the second largest automotive centre in North America (after Detroit) Currently,[when?] General Motors Ford and Chrysler run six assembly plants in the area with Honda and Toyota having assembly plants just outside the GTA General Motors Ford Honda KIA Mazda Suzuki Nissan Volkswagen Toyota Hyundai Aston Martin Jaguar Land Rover Subaru Volvo BMW and Mitsubishi have chosen the Greater Toronto Area for their Canadian headquarters. Magna International the world's most diversified car supplier, also has its headquarters in Aurora the automobile industry within the region accounts for roughly 10% of the region's GDP Agriculture. . Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory As of 2012 nearly 50 people have successfully swum across the lake the first person who accomplished the feat was Marilyn Bell who did it in 1954 at the age of 16 Toronto's Marilyn Bell Park is named in her honour the park opened in 1984 and is just to the east of the spot where Bell completed her swim in 1974 Diana Nyad became the first person who swam across the lake against the current (from north to south) on August 28 2007 14-year-old Natalie Lambert from Kingston Ontario made the swim leaving Sackets Harbor New York and reaching Kingston's Confederation basin less than 24 hours after she entered the lake on August 19 2012 14-year-old Annaleise Carr became the youngest person to swim across the lake She completed the 32-mile (52-km) crossing from Niagara-on-the-Lake to Marilyn Bell Park in just under 27 hours Industrialisation. 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, Population 7.1 Energy When the Toronto Public School Board was first created elementary or common schools in the city did not have dedicated buildings but instead "the thousand-odd children who were registered as common school pupils were accommodated in rented premises--a dozen or so small halls and houses designated by numbers." This changed shortly after the election of the first board when six schools identical in architecture were built one in each ward of the city More schools with distinct designs were built over the coming decades Some of these original schools are listed in the order of their construction below:. .
. School of Graphic Communications Management Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory. . ! . The Saint Lawrence Seaway which extends across most of the southern portion of the province and connects to the Atlantic Ocean is the primary water transportation route for cargo particularly iron ore and grain in the past the Great Lakes and St Lawrence River were also a major passenger transportation route but over the past half century passenger travel has been reduced to ferry services and sightseeing cruises Railways! ! .
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