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	Toronto, Canada
		Toronto is one of the most multicultural cities in the world, with 1 in 3 or about (36%) comprised of visible minorities, meaning that 63% of the population is of European origin, chiefly of English, Scottish, Italian, and Portuguese descent.
		The City of Toronto covers an area of 641 km² (247 square miles) and is bounded by Lake Ontario to the south, Etobicoke Creek and Highway 427 to the west, Steeles Avenue to the north, and the Rouge River to the east.
		Toronto grew rapidly in the late 19th century, the population increasing from 30,000 in 1851 to 56,000 in 1871 and 181,000 in 1891.
	www.creekin.net /c2632-n33-toronto-canada.html (4066 words)

	City of Toronto: Archives: The Great Fire of 1904
		The tenants at number 13 are Wyld and Darling, whose later warehouse at Bay and Wellington streets was destroyed by the 1904 fire.
		Fire fighters and equipment from Toronto’s surrounding suburbs, and others arriving by special express trains from Hamilton and Buffalo, arrived in time to help Toronto’s exhausted fire fighters make a last stand just west of Yonge Street.
		Finally, by 4:30 am, the fire was declared under control, though small fires continued to break out for the next few days, and the ruins smouldered for two weeks.
	www.toronto.ca /archives/fire1.htm (1144 words)

	The world's top toronto ontario websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The City of Toronto has a physical area of approximately 630 km² (243 square miles) and is bounded by Lake Ontario to the south, Etobicoke Creek and Highway 427 to the west, Steeles Avenue to the north, and the Rouge River to the east.
		Further growth in the Toronto area is often attributed to the rise of the separatist movement in Quebec and the election of the Parti Québécois; in 1976.
		In 1904 a large section of the downtown was destroyed in the 1904 Toronto fire, but it was quickly rebuilt.
	www.websbiggest.com /wiki-article-tab.cfm/toronto__ontario (3383 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/1904 Toronto fire
		The Great Toronto Fire of 1904 was a fire that destroyed a large section of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada on April 19, 1904.
		As a result of the fire, more stringent safety laws were introduced and an expansion of the city's fire department was undertaken.
		It was largest fire ever in the city, although a previous large fire had consumed many city blocks on April 7, 1849 when the city was much smaller and constructed mostly with wood.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/1904_Toronto_fire (354 words)

	Port Perry / Scugog Twp. Heritage Gallery
		At the time of the fire the sheds on the eastern half of the lot were blown up in order to create a complete fire break which prevented the fire from spreading further west to McCaw's new building.
		The Ross Elevator and Mill at the waterfront luckily escaped the fire, primarily because the wind was blowing from the east.
		The tragedy of the 1883 fire was compounded by the fact that in the early stages of the fire, some unscrupulous people pretended to help by rescuing merchandise from the fire and piling it on the street, but much of the rescued merchandise disappeared.
	www.scugogheritage.com /history/fire1883.htm (1266 words)

	Toronto Islands / Toronto Centre Island / Toronto Island Ferry
		The Toronto Islands were not always in fact islands but actually a series of continuously roaming sand-bars, or littoral drift deposits, originating from the Scarborough Bluffs and carried westward by Lake Ontario currents.
		During that decade, a number of severe storms and their strong wave action worked to erode the peninsula, requiring frequent repair to small gaps until finally, in 1858, an island was created when a storm completely separated the peninsula from the mainland and the gap was not repaired.
		After the islands were transferred from the federal government to the City of Toronto in 1867, Plan D-141 divided the land into lots and allowed cottages, amusement areas and resort hotels to be built.
	www.torontoharbour.com /toronto-islands.php (1219 words)

	memories
		Other items connected with the 1922 Fire and Fire Departments is the 1922 Ruggles Fire pumper purchased after the Great Fire to replace the steam operated one that burned at the corner of Ferguson Avenue and main Street in front of the present day Smallman’s Pharmacy.
		We also have a 1904 street car restored by our members which was one of 87 cars shipped here from Toronto to house those in the Haileybury area who lost their homes and possessions.
		The proper approach to a fire or accident was very important, in the end, the men were all working in a concerned and professional manner.
	www.angelfire.com /ar3/hhm/firemen.html (3788 words)

	Toronto, Canada
		Toronto is an important centre of international commerce, and houses the Toronto Stock Exchange, second only in North America to the New York Stock Exchange.
		Toronto lost 10,000 lives when many of its British immigrant inhabitants volunteered to fight in World War I. Then came the Great Depression of the 1930s, bringing hunger, homelessness and an unemployment rate over 30 percent.
		Toronto is a prime example of late-20th century, early-21st century history in motion, an "accidental city" as it has been called by former Saturday Night editor Robert Fulford.
	worldfacts.us /Canada-Toronto.htm (2335 words)

	Toronto : In Depth : History \| Frommers.com
		In 1834, the city was incorporated, and York became Toronto, a city bounded by Parliament Street to the east, Bathurst to the west, the lakefront to the south, and 366m (1,200 ft.) north of the current Queen Street (then called Lot) to the north.
		It was still a city of churches worthy of the name "Toronto the Good," with a population of staunch religious conservatives, who barely voted for Sunday streetcar service in 1897 and, in 1912, banned tobogganing on Sunday.
		Toronto became a major city in the 1950s, with Metro providing a structure for planning and growth.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/toronto/0034020044.html (3534 words)

	Voluntarism and the Fire Service in Nineteenth Century St. John's, Newfoundland
		In practice the new fire companies did not live up to expectations, and the town often found itself depending for fire protection on assistance from the local Imperial garrison as was the case in so many other colonial towns.
		The main reason for the incapacity of the fire service lay in its financial condition, the four companies established in 1833 were driven further and further into debt when many householders defaulted on their assessments.
		Attached to each station also were several permanent paid firemen who were to be assisted in fighting fire both by the policemen assigned to the ward in which the fire was located and by a force of civilian reserves who would be paid whenever their services were sought.
	www.ucs.mun.ca /~melbaker/firedept.htm (4154 words)

	EJ Phillips 1830-1904 Toronto
		Mary Shortt, in a January 1980 letter about her thesis on Toronto theatre notes that "I was unable to explain [John] Nickinson's strange behavior in 1858, when he disappeared for an extended period from the Royal Lyceum [Theatre].
		She became a director of the Toronto Opera House Company in 1873, and was the first manager of the Grand Opera House, until it was sold to a new owner who replaced her two years later in 1878.
		The Royal Lyceum built by wealthy landowner John Ritchey in 1848 was the first fully equipped theater in Toronto complete with a balcony, dressing rooms, footlights and orchestra pit and was the forerunner to both The Grand Opera House and St. Lawrence Hall.
	mysite.verizon.net /vze85s68/toronto.htm (1355 words)

	Toronto Public Library - Local History Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fire insurance plans are detailed large-scale maps of cities, smaller municipalities, and industrial sites.
		At one inch to 100 feet it was the largest scale map of Toronto produced to that date and the first to show construction material of buildings.
		This atlas includes individual maps of several townships that are now part of Toronto - Etobicoke, Scarborough, York (with enlarged maps of the south-west and south-east parts) - as well as plans of the city of Toronto, and the towns and villages of Weston and Yorkville.
	www.tpl.toronto.on.ca /localhistory/atlases.html (1299 words)

	Firefighter's Real Stories - Tidbits
		Fire Poles -- as fire stations developed into 2-story buildings, the second floor was used for sleeping and relaxation.
		Fire insurance companies were eager for better equipment and devoted firemen to extinguish the blazes.
		Fire legislations created after an inferno in Boston in 1653 included: All houses must have at least one ladder that will reach the ridge of the house.
	www.firefightersrealstories.com /tidbits.html (3691 words)

	CalendarHome.com - 1904 - Calendar Encyclopedia
		April 18 - The Great Toronto Fire destroys much of that city's downtown, but kills no one.
		June 15 - A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1000.
		October 21 - Russian Baltic Fleet fires on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats in the North Sea, in what would be known as the Dogger Bank incident.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /1904.htm (1670 words)

	UMD Library-Fire Insurance Plans \| Library \| University of Waterloo
		A fire insurance plan is a large scale urban map or set of maps of a community.
		The fire insurance plans are for use in the library only.
		Fire insurance maps in the Library of Congress - plans of North American cities and towns provided by the Samborn Map Company.
	www.lib.uwaterloo.ca /locations/umd/cart/fire_plans.html (308 words)

	Map & GIS Collection, University of Toronto Libraries
		Fire Insurance plans and atlases are large-scale (high resolution) urban maps which grew out of the need of fire insurance underwriters to understand the physical characteristics of a structure to be insured.
		These maps show with detail colour drawings and symbols, the character of the outside and inside construction of buildings, passages, probable fire cut-offs, fire walls, openings in walls, height and occupancy or use of individual buildings or groups of buildings.
		Street widths, street addresses, property lines, water pipes or mains, fire hydrants and fire alarm boxes are also located on the maps.
	prod.library.utoronto.ca:8090 /maplib/fips.htm (394 words)

	1904abstracts.html
		Last Thursday [March 10, 1904] clever Ed GARRETT, the mulatto hustler at Stroud's Livery Stable, was killed in John PERRY's Williamstown Saloon by John REDDY, a Falmouth saloon keeper, who was shot in the face by GARRETT.
		Sidney CONRAD ESKRIDGE died at her home September 4, 1904; was born September 8, 1854 and was in her 58th year; suffered severe heart attack on Sunday and peacefully passed away; she was married to Wm.
		Died on the 5th [October 1904] an infant child of Charles TACKETT; buried in Owenton IOOF Cemetery on the 6th.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ky/county/grant/index/1904abstracts.html (8331 words)

	Toronto Fire Services - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Toronto Fire Services is responsible for responding to fires, rescue and assisting with medical situations within the City of Toronto.
		As of April 2005, the departments and commissioners were replaced by divisions under the City Manager (and Deputy Managers), so the TFS is now referred to as the Toronto Fire Services Division.
		It is headquarters for Toronto EMS and Toronto Fire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toronto_Fire_Services (522 words)

	VI9100 - IRON MEN, WOODEN LADDERS
		Whatever the source, by the time a watchman saw flames and sounded the alarm at 8:04 pm on that icy night of April 19, 1904, the fire was well on its way to burning Toronto to the ground.
		Miraculously, although many fire fighters suffered minor injuries, no one died in the fire.
		Join your host, Bryan Ratushniak, an 18 year veteran of the Toronto Fire Department, as he takes us back 100 years to a time when ordinary men became extraordinary heroes.
	www.fire-police-ems.com /videos/vi9100.shtml (171 words)

	EJ Phillips 1830-1904 Toronto
		John Drew [mother of Georgie Drew Barrymore, and grandmother of John, Lionel and Ethel] appeared in Toronto in 1858 with her third husband an Irish comedian, drawing good houses with familiar Irish comedies and farces: The Irish Ambassador, The Irish Emigrant and the Irish Lion.
		In 1860 Nickinson returned briefly to Toronto, leased the Royal Lyceum, and renamed it The Prince of Wales Theatre in honor of the Prince, who was on a North American tour at that time.
		Romeo and Juliet: Nurse [and Juliet in Cincinnati 1864]
	home.comcast.net /~m.chitty/toronto.htm (3357 words)

	Eye Weekly - Film Lead - October 26, 2006
		These were adapted for the screen by Shawn Slovo, son of the late Joe Slovo, long-time leader of South Africa's communist party and the ANC's military wing.
		Speaking in an interview around the time of Catch a Fire's world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, Chamusso expresses amazement that his life could be the stuff of movies.
		But Catch a Fire is also a potent and pressing lesson on the importance of forgiveness, South Africa's Truth and Reconcilation Commission having become a model for other countries hoping to escape from a legacy of violence.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.26.06/film/lead.php (785 words)

	W. J. Gage Co. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gage Co. used this perforator from 1887 to 1904:
		April 20, 1904, fire destroyed the heart of downtown Toronto.
		Fire investigators traced the source of the fire to the Currie Neckwear Co. factory on the north side of Wellington St., a few doors west of Bay St. Up on the top floor, a hot iron had been left too close to a pile of rags.
	www.kw.igs.net /~mjbehm/bnaps/wjg.htm (98 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- The great Toronto fire
		This interesting web site looks at the fire that took place in Toronto in April 1904, exploring an interesting aspect of urban history.
		It is published by the Archives of Ontario, and provides an interactive history of the fire that destroyed over 100 buildings and caused more than 10 million dollars of damage.
		There is a slide show of photographs showing the aftermath of the fire, a display of models showing the route of the fire, and an animation showing how it spread.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=13193 (206 words)

	UnSeen Toronto: The History of UnSeen Toronto
		The Toronto region had been populated for at least ten thousand years before the arrival of Brûlé.
		The French build Fort Toronto on the east bank of the Humber River; it was replaced with a larger French fort called Fort Rouille which was built three miles east of the Humber on the grounds of the present day Canadian National Exhibition.
		Lord Dorchester initiates the purchase of Toronto from the Mississauga tribes for the price of 1700 British pounds.
	www.bcholmes.org /rpgs/unseen/places/history.html (229 words)

	Blue Ball Fire calender of events
		Rheems Fire Co: September 16 - Pig Roast (pig, filling, baked beans, roll, apple sauce and drink).$7.50 per meal Later that day there will be a traditional housing for the new Squad, Special Unit, Duty Vehicle, and Tanker.
		Labor Day originated in Toronto in April 1872 with the first workingmen's demonstration organized by the Toronto Trades Assembly.
		Ten years later, in July, a parade took place in Toronto and Peter J. McGuire of New York was invited to hold a speech.
	www.blueballfire.com /Calender.html (1706 words)

	Toronto Disasters
		This collection highlights the wrath of Hurricane Hazel that pounded city homes; it remembers the urgent screams heard amidst the tangled wreckage of a nightmarish subway crash; and it recounts one icy night in 1904 when flames engulfed city buildings.
		These tragedies, and others, epitomize the strength and character of Torontonians in the face of disaster.
		Toronto Disasters will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in history and human interest stories.
	www.fedpubs.com /subject/history/toronto_disasters.htm (129 words)

	Classics in the History of Psychology -- James (1904)
		The general group of experiences that act, that do not only possess their natures intrinsically, but wear them adjectively and energetically, turning them against one another, comes inevitably to be contrasted with the group whose members, having identically the same natures, fail to manifest them in the 'energetic' way.
		I make for myself now an experience of blazing fire; I place it near my body; but it does not warm me in the least.
		Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mental fire.
	psychclassics.yorku.ca /James/consciousness.htm (5324 words)

	Child's Play :: The Memphis Flyer :: the mid-south's news weekly :: Book Reviews :: Books
		Hardly Munro's equal (yet) but very much following in her footsteps.
		Canada, though, remains Munro's province, from the farms and small towns of Ontario to the big-city streets of Toronto and Vancouver, from mid-20th-century families making a hard life livable on those farms and in those small towns to their educated, now-aging offspring trying to make sense of things and of themselves in a wider world.
		Add to this Munro's outlook: a Northerner's efficiency -- dialogue in short bursts but sounding exactly the notes needed, exposition without a waste of word, and everywhere this: characters in the throes of...
	www.memphisflyer.com /memphis/Content?oid=oid:1904 (772 words)

	Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Toronto art students league 1896-1904, negro slaves loyalist, elections and education, waterloo centennial, Pennsylvania german folklore,
		toronto art students league, negro slaves and loyalists, provincial archives, election and education 1850's Louth,
		Toronto Globe defense of Canada 1861-1866, john beverley robinson, toronto bank guards, hamilton family,
	www.aandc.org /collections/ontario_history_detail.html (3016 words)

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