From the Archives Toronto Canada: Photos from a 1983 trip up to Toronto. Hope they may be of some interest. Apologies to my UHH friends from Canada; they likely will not need the...

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From the Archives Toronto Canada

Feb 11, 2023 20:04:19 #

HamBar06 Loc: Philadelphia, PA

Photos from a 1983 trip up to Toronto. Hope they may be of some interest.
Apologies to my UHH friends from Canada; they likely will not need the Info below.
Larry B.

TORONTO
Toronto was founded as the Town of York and capital of Upper Canada in 1793 after the Mississaugas surrendered the land to the British in the Toronto Purchase. For more than 12,000 years, Indigenous People have lived in the Toronto area. The ancestors of the Huron-Wendat were the first known groups to establish agricultural villages in the area about 1,600 years ago.
In the 17th century, the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail along the Humber River became a strategic site for controlling the fur trade farther north. The Seneca people established a village of about 2,000 people known as Teiaiagon along the trail. The French set up trading posts in the area, which they abandoned when the British conquered French North America in the Seven Years' War
In the late 19th century, Toronto grew into an important regional center, and was linked to the rest of Ontario by a growing railway network and the American and British markets by its port. After World War II,an influx of immigrants came to the region.
The Province of Ontario formed a regional government, [Metropolitan Toronto], encompassing Toronto and its suburbs in 1954. The Governments invested heavily in infrastructure facilitating a boom in population and industry. In the second half of the 20th century, Toronto surpassed Montreal as Canada's largest city and became the economic capital of Canada

Toronto City Hall built 1965 Viljo Revell, Architect