. . This list includes many prominent families of Toronto Positions on the board were unpaid and were dominated by members of wealthy families who could afford to spend time in meetings and advocating for board policies J.D Ridout and G.P Ridout were sons of Thomas Ridout a politician and chairman of the Home District Council the Gooderham name is known best for its connection to Gooderham and Worts a Canadian distillery since purchased by Hiram Walker and whose buildings have been retained and restored in Toronto's Distillery District Joshua George Beard served on the board for twenty years in addition to serving as a city alderman and was elected the 10th Mayor of Toronto in 1854. Gooderham David Paterson and E.F Whittemore were directors of Consumer's Gas Works a Toronto gas distribution company since acquired by Enbridge whose buildings remain prominent in Toronto including the Consumer's Gas Building and as performance and rehearsal spaces for Canadian Stage. James L Robinson was George W Allan's partner in law and son of Sir John Robinson 1st Baronet of Toronto John Hawkins Hagarty would go on to become Chief Justice of Ontario James Price was a builder; his presence as the only trustee from more humble roots speaks to the composition of the Toronto Public School Board in this era. Dr Joseph Workman was elected chair of the school board in addition to serving on the board for five years he was Superintendent of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum now the Queen Street Mental Health Centre of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Workman was one of the prime supporters of the campaign to build publicly owned schools Notable Figures of the Toronto Public School Board.
Nuclear (15.4%) 5 Aftermath 1.1 Early history People celebrating the incorporation of Toronto in 1834 the Town of York was incorporated as the new City of Toronto The town was incorporated on March 6 1834 reverting to the name of "Toronto" to distinguish it from New York City as well as about a dozen other localities named 'York' in the province (including York County in which Toronto was situated) and to disassociate itself from the negative connotation of dirty Little York a common nickname for the town by its residents William Lyon Mackenzie was its first mayor The new Reform-dominated municipal council quickly set to work to correct the problems left unchecked by the old Court of Quarter Sessions Unsurprisingly for "Muddy York" the new civic corporation made roads a priority This ambitious road improvement scheme put the new council in a difficult position; good roads were expensive yet the incorporation bill had limited the ability of the council to raise taxes An inequitable taxation system placed an unfair burden on the poorer members of the community Mackenzie decided to take the matter directly to the citizens and called a public meeting at the Market Square on July 29 1834 "for six that being the hour at which the Mechanicks and labouring classes can most conveniently attend without breaking on a day's labour." Mackenzie met with organized resistance as the newly resurrected "British Constitutional Society" with William H Draper as president Tory aldermen Carfrae Monro and Denison as vice-presidents and common councilman and newspaper publisher George Gurnett as secretary met the night before and "from 150 to 200 of the most respectable portion of the community assembled and unanimously resolved to meet the Mayor upon his own invitation." Sheriff William Jarvis took over the meeting and interrupted Mayor Mackenzie "to propose to the Meeting a vote of censure on his conduct as Mayor." in the resulting pandemonium the two sides agreed that they would hold a second meeting the next day In 1837 a revolutionary insurrection was crushed by British authorities and Canadian volunteer units at Montgomery's Tavern on Yonge Street The Tories called the meeting for three in the afternoon so that the working class "mechanics" would not be able to attend the inability of the mechanics to attend was their saving grace for the meeting ended in a terrible tragedy when the packed gallery overlooking Market Square collapsed pitching the onlookers into the butcher's stalls below killing four and injuring dozens the Tory press immediately placed the blame on Mackenzie even though he didn't attend the Toronto mechanics ironically spared the carnage because of the hour at which the meeting was appointed did not appear to be swayed by the Tory press in the October 1834 provincial elections Mackenzie was overwhelmingly elected in the second riding of York; Sheriff William Jarvis running in the city of Toronto lost to reformer James Edward Small by the slim margin of 252 to 260 votes Toronto was the site of the key events of the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837 led by Mackenzie In 1841 the first gas street lamps appeared in Toronto Over 100 were installed that year in time for author Charles Dickens' visit in May 1842 Dickens described Toronto as "full of life motion business and improvement the streets are well-paved and lighted with gas." Dickens was on a North American tour View of Toronto looking west from King and Jarvis in 1845 the buildings right of the trees were later destroyed in the Great Fire of 1849 During the Typhus epidemic of 1847 863 Irish immigrants died of typhus at fever sheds built at the Toronto Hospital at the northwest corner of King Street and John Street the epidemic also killed the first Bishop of Toronto Michael Power while providing care and ministering to Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Famine The April 7 1849 Cathedral Fire destroyed the "Market Block" north of Market Square and St Lawrence Market as well as the first St James' Cathedral and a portion of Toronto's first City Hall While Toronto had a firefighting brigade and two fire halls the force could not stop the large fire and many businesses were lost a period of rebuilding followed After the Upper Canada Rebellion resentments between the ruling factions of the Family Compact and the Reform elements in Toronto continued as Irish and other Catholics migrated to Toronto and became a larger part of the population the Orange Order representing Protestant elements loyal to the British Crown fought to keep control of the ruling government and civil services the police constabulary and the fire departments were controlled through patronage and were under Orange control Orange elements were known to use violence against Catholics and Reformers and were immune to prosecution it would not be until the 20th Century that Toronto would have its first Catholic mayor Latter 19th century; . Hanging a picture in the office $700, Female 53.9% 50.5% S The 1795 Jay Treaty officially set the borders between British North America and the United States north to the Great Lakes and St Lawrence River on 1 February 1796 the capital of Upper Canada was moved from Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake) to York (now Toronto) which was judged to be less vulnerable to attack by the US The Act of Union 1840 passed 23 July 1840 by the British Parliament and proclaimed by the Crown on 10 February 1841 merged Upper Canada with Lower Canada to form the short-lived United Province of Canada Government! Religious schools Designed by Eberhard Zeidler the Eaton Centre represented one of North America's first downtown shopping malls it was designed as a multi-levelled vaulted glass-ceiling galleria modelled after the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan Italy At the time of its opening in 1977 the interior design of the Eaton Centre was considered quite revolutionary and influenced shopping centre architecture throughout North America Plans originally called for the demolition of Old City Hall and the Church of the Holy Trinity but these were eventually dropped after a public outcry Ultimately Louisa Street Downey's Lane and Albert Lane were closed and disappeared from the city street grid to make way for the new office and retail complex Since the 2010s the Eaton Centre is the most visited tourist attraction in Toronto and the most visited shopping mall in North America Large sprawling retail centres are common in suburban Toronto Of the more notable such centres is Yorkdale Shopping Centre which opened in 1964 as one of the largest malls in the world the mall was constructed with a novel system for its retailers to receive merchandise Most shopping centres have their receiving doors located at the back side while Yorkdale was constructed with a one-way two-laned road for trucks running beneath the centre that leads directly to retailers' basement storages Other large shopping malls in Toronto include Scarborough Town Centre Fairview Mall and Sherway Gardens Institutional architecture. ; . . 1.2 19th century Huron Tract Purchase area located in Southern Ontario highlighted in yellow Bond Academy.
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