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	TORONTO FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Toronto's population is 2,518,772 (2004 Statistics_Canada estimate); that of the Greater_Toronto_Area (GTA) is 5,203,686 (2004).
		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 British, Irish, French, Italian, and Portuguese descent.
		Toronto's climate is moderated by Lake_Ontario; its climate is among the mildest in Canada east of the Rocky Mountain range.
	www.gottaorderflowers.com /Toronto (6847 words)

	Toronto
		Toronto, capital and largest city of Ontario and second city in size in Canada, is situated on the north shore of Lake Ontario, opposite the mouth of the Niagara River, 333 miles s.w.
		Toronto is the chief distributing center of Ontario, particularly in grain, fruits, and live stock.
		Steamship lines connect Toronto with Canadian and American lake and river ports from Port Arthur to Montreal, and because of this it is known as the "Queen City of the Lakes." Fourteen of the chartered banks of Canada have their headquarters here, and the annual bank clearings are over $6,000,000,000.
	www.sensato.com /1921/01toront.htm (830 words)

	Metropolitan Street Railway of Toronto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Metropolitan Street Railway of Toronto was the one of many operator of horseless streetcars in Toronto.
		The franchise was granted in 1877, but it began service on Yonge Street in 1885.
		It changed its name to Metropolitan Street Railway Company in 1893 and sold in 1897 to Toronto Railway Company in 1897.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metropolitan_Street_Railway_of_Toronto (89 words)

	The Toronto & York Radial Railway
		In August 1922, ownership of the MSR was transferred to the City of Toronto with the lapsing of Mackenzie's transit lease.
		History: Chartered in 1896 by a local Schomberg businessman to construct a railway from Schomberg to a point at or near the community of Aurora, the Schomberg and Aurora Railway (SandAR) was an oddity in that it contemplated a steam operation connecting with a radial line.
		The railway was absorbed into the Toronto Railway Company in March 1895 and then became part of the Toronto and York Radial Railway Company in 1904 as the Scarboro Division.
	home.primus.ca /~robkath/railmet.htm (1832 words)

	March History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As a Early Sunday morning, March 16, the last radial car of the Lake Simcoe line rolled into the city, terminating a golden dream that had its origin 53 years ago when the Metropolitan Street Railway Company of Toronto was incorporated The Commission purchased a camera and projecting machine for motion pictures.
		It was the job of the General Plans Section, headed by Alex Harvey, to decide the design of the actual route of the Rapid Transit Subway.
		Its members determined where the subway would go within existing street lines, where it would go on a private right-of-way, where it should be covered and where it should be open-cut.
	www.city.toronto.on.ca /ttc/coupler/0300/marhis1.htm (243 words)

	vacations-
		Toronto can be an eye opener for United States city dwellers: crime by our standards essentially doesn't exist, the streets and subway are impeccably clean, and vandalism and graffiti are not part of the Toronto scene.
		Toronto is a walking city of diverse neighborhoods where you wander, as if in another land or time.
		The great old dame, of course, is the former railway hotel, the Royal York, (800 441 1414) conveniently across from the Union subway station on Front Street and favored by guests as different as Queen Elizabeth II of England and the Rolling Stones.
	www.sandiego-online.com /travel/vacations/toronto.shtml (1013 words)

	Transit Toronto - Content: The Bloor Streetcar (Deceased)
		A gap between Sherbourne Street and Broadview Avenue was closed on December 14, 1918, however, with the opening of the Prince Edward Viaduct over the Don valley and the Rosedale Ravine.
		As Toronto and its suburbs grew throughout the fifties, however, it grew to the west, the east and the north.
		After the TTC overruled Metropolitan Toronto's own Planning Department, which still wanted the central part of the line to run under Queen Street, and after receiving financial assistance from Metro and the province, work began on the Bloor-Danforth subway.
	transit.toronto.on.ca /streetcar/4115.shtml (2512 words)

	Toronto Tranportation Commission
		The Toronto Transportation Commission was formed September 1, 1921, when the City of Toronto acquired the Toronto Street Railway Company and the Toronto Civic Railways.
		During the period between 1921 and 1927, the Toronto Suburban Railways and the Toronto and York Radial Railway & Metropolitan Lines were also taken over by the T.T.C. The Toronto Transportation Commission ceased to exist December 31, 1953, being replaced on January 1, 1954 by the Toronto Transit Commission.
		This was brought about because of a change to a metropolitan system of government which expanded the Commission's area of responsibility from 35 to 240 square miles.
	www.trainweb.org /elso/TTC.HTM (873 words)

	eye - Surface solutions (cont'd) - 03.25.04
		The risk with the big plans -- the Greater Toronto Authority and the Hydro corridors and the subways -- the risk with that stuff is we forget the bread and butter, and that's the lesson we should have learned from the 1990s.
		Toronto is successful and we fund the other orders of government to some extent.
		Travel in Toronto at this point is chaotic, as the City absorbs a number of smaller transit operators when it expands its borders.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.25.04/city/subway-part2.html (2294 words)

	USATODAY.com - Excerpt from 'Flying Over 96th Street' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		At 96th Street and Park Avenue, train tracks emerge from the underground belly of Manhattan and climb into the sunlight.
		North of 96th Street, six-story tenements on either side of the avenue confront the massive stone abutment that serves as the foundation for the elevated railway tracks.
		The streets above 96th Street have their own smell: a combination of sickly sweet, rotting garbage, the musty decay of vacant tenements, and the thick aroma of generously garlicked cooking escaping from open windows of ground-level kitchens, cuchifrito stands, and curbside food carts.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/excerpts/2004-09-08-flying-over_x.htm (868 words)

	Canadian Northern Railway
		The Canadian Northern Railway Company (CNoR) had its origins in the creation of the Lake Manitoba Railway and Canal Company which was incorporated in 1889 by Manitoba interests to construct a series of portage prairie lines throughout the central portion of the Province of Manitoba to compete with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR).
		Acting upon the recommendations of several railway commissions respecting the chaotic railway situation in the country, the Federal Government in August 1917 took complete control of the CNoR with Mackenzie and Mann forced to resign.
		Below are links to the individual histories of railway lines that were either created by or ultimately came under the control of the Canadian Northern Railway that were constructed within the Province of Ontario.
	home.primus.ca /~robkath/railcnor.htm (876 words)

	Toronto :: Main Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I live on a street downtown where you have to move your car from one side of the street to the other on the 1st and 15th of each month in the summer.
		Here's an idea Toronto or Toronto Hydro should adopt to encourage people to save power: give away or sell at a discount clotheslines so people don't use their clothes dryers as much.
		I'm not sure whether Toronto used to be cleaner because people dealt with their trash properly, or whether we had more garbagemen prowling on the streets.
	toronto.myblogsite.com /blog (5015 words)

	Urban Transport Technology - Toronto Transit Commission Toronto Transit Commission
		In addition to these there is a 75km long tram network and the GO Transit suburban rail service connecting with the metro at the central Union station as well as other stations.
		Sheppard Subway is Toronto's newest metro line; it was opened on 24 November 2002 at a cost of $557 million.
		In July 2003, Toronto City Council approved a Master Agreement to enter into a lease with the Union Pearson Group for a 100-year term to restore, revitalize and operate Union Station on behalf of the City of Toronto.
	www.urbantransport-technology.com /projects/toronto (1077 words)

	Toronto hotels reservations, cheap hotels, discounts - hotel deals
		Sophistication and charm are the hallmarks of the InterContinental Toronto where the service is outstanding and nothing is too much trouble for the attentive and friendly staff.
		The Metropolitan Hotel is a 26-storey, 432-room hotel renowned for its personalized service, intimate scale, and elegant and contemporary decor.
		Connected directly into Toronto's Union Railway Station and the PATH underground shopping network, the location provides easy access to many city attractions such as the Theatres District, the Eaton Centre, CN Tower, SkyDome and the Harbourfront area.
	www.all-hotels.com /toronto-hotels.htm (808 words)

	Transit History of Toronto, Ontario
		The City of Toronto assumed all operations at the end of the TSR franchise 20 May 1891.
		For the 1884 fair street railway pioneer Charles Van Depoele constructed a successful 3000 ft. (900 m) line inside the fair grounds and passengers were carried.
		For September 1885 the line was extended to meet a Toronto Street Railway horsecar line, providing public transit to the fair.
	home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~wyatt/alltime/toronto-on.html (1039 words)

	40th ICAAC Hotels - 2000
		The Crowne Plaza Toronto Centre is an elegant tower of architectural simplicity and urban sophistication.
		The Four Season's Toronto is in the heart of the chic Yorkville district, minutes from everything that makes Toronto so remarkable: the shops and boutiques of Bloor Street, theatres, galleries, parks, and cosmopolitan neighborhoods.
		The Park Hyatt Toronto is located in the heart of Toronto's fashionable Yorkville district, across the street from the Royal Ontario Museum and close to the financial district and Convention Center.
	www.asm.org /mtgsrc/ic40hotel.htm (867 words)

	May History
		Canadian railway Baron Sir William Mackenzie, owner of the Toronto Railway Co. (established 1891), predecessor to the TTC.
		Of the growing traffic congestion in Toronto, Yale University Professor W.M. Daniels wrote: "In congested urban sections, streetcars must be given a preferential use of streets and public thoroughfares.
		When it is remembered that a streetcar with 60 passengers takes perhaps 1/20th of the street area necessary for the accommodation of 20 or 25 automobiles with the same number of riders, a strong argument can be made for such preferential right of way."
	www.city.toronto.on.ca /ttc/coupler/0500/may_his.htm (255 words)

	History of Regional Transit in Toronto, Ontario
		Acquired by the City of Toronto 16 August 1922 and operated by the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario as the Hydro Electric Railways: Toronto and York Division from 01 November 1922 until 12 January 1927.
		York Township Railways on behalf of the community by the TTC (see Toronto).
		The last commuter rail service operated by a railway (as opposed to a transit agency) in the Toronto region was Via Rail Canada, Inc. 's Toronto - Peterborough - Havelock service (ended 12 January 1990).
	home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~wyatt/alltime/toronto-suburbs-on.html (1059 words)

	Old Time Trains
		One of the first to go in downtown Toronto was the large CPR freight and express sheds at King and Simcoe Streets.
		To the west in Toronto the entire CPR Parkdale Yard (actually two small yards) complete with passenger station, express building and freight shed all disappeared in the 1980's and is still being redeveloped along with many adjacent industries.
		A little northwest in West Toronto the massive Canada Packers plant was replaced with housing, while the nearby stock yards is full of mostly "big box" retail stores.
	www.trainweb.org /oldtimetrains/Various/redevelopment.htm (701 words)

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		Willow Park Dr. is the street just before the lights you need to turn left into the mall.
		Some of our rest stops, particularly close to major metropolitan areas, are prime "Gimme all your cash and credit cards!!" opportunities for the missguided youth of the area.
		Directly across street is large dirt lot with sign: "Truck and RV Parking." No time limit is posted.
	members.aol.com /stephndud3/BdMAPEDIT1.txt (18083 words)

	Early Days in Richmond Hill: A History of the Community to 1930 : electronic edition. : Rails through Richmond Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Vera Clarke,"Memories Regarding the Metropolitan Railway," typescript, Aurora Museum
		In June 1910 arrangements were made and advertised for dancing in Bond Lake Park each Wednesday and Saturday evening, beginning at 8:30 p.m.
		Grinding merrily up Yonge Street, the Metropolitan trolleys took dancers to Bond Lake.
	edrh.rhpl.richmondhill.on.ca /?ID=s10.7 (387 words)

	CFP 2005 > PANOPTICON'05
		Cukier was the technology editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong; before that he was the European Editor of Red Herring in London and worked at The International Herald Tribune in Paris.
		Devin decided to attend law school after participating in the massive demonstrations during the 1999 Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization in Seattle, where he acted as a street medic and also as a logistical coordinator for the Independent Media Center, which was founded in the months before the demonstrations.
		Devin has assisted the ever-growing Indymedia network with various legal problems over the years, including a 2001 subpoena issued at the request of the Canadian government, and a take-down request from the FBI at the request of Swiss authorities in 2004.
	cfp2005.org /Speakers.html (11865 words)

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	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Choir/6820/m-2.html (2984 words)

	W&H MAIN YARDS: Railroad Reporting Marks
		The ALPHA code is used by shippers and railroads to identify car-handling organizations for purpose of routing, billing, division of charges, etc. Please note that this file contains references to companies that are known to be no longer in existence.
		CFWR Caney Fork and Western Railroad 0 CG Southern Railway System (Central of Georgia Railway) 455 CGBX Procor Ltd. 601 CGCX Continental Grain Co. 686 CGDX County Gas Distributors Inc. 3 CGEX Canadian General Electric Co. Ltd.
		KM * Kansas and Missouri Railway and Terminal Co. 0 KMCX Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp. 535 KNC * Kingcome Navigation Co. Ltd.
	www.spikesys.com /Trains/rep_mrks.html (2622 words)

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