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Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario.
In 1967, the seven smallest municipalities of the region were merged into their larger neighbours, resulting in a six-city configuration that included the old City of Toronto and the surrounding municipalities of East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough and York.
Toronto's most prominent landmark is the CN Tower, which currently stands as the tallest free-standing land structure in the world at 553 metres (1,815 ft).
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Toronto is also home to Canada's most famous castle - Casa Loma, the former estate of Sir Henry Pellatt, a prominent Toronto financier, industrialist and military man. Other notable neighbourhoods and attractions include The Beaches, the Toronto Islands, Kensington Market, Fort York, and the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Toronto is Canada's largest media market, and the 4th largest media centre in North America (behind New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago), with four conventional dailies and two free commuter papers in a greater metropolitan area of about 5.5 million inhabitants.
The Toronto Star and the Toronto Sun are the prominent daily city newspapers, while the national dailies The Globe and Mail and the National Post are also headquartered in the city.
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 Toronto, Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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.
Located on the northern shore of Lake Ontario, Toronto was originally a term of indeterminate geographical location, designating the approximate area of the future city of Toronto on maps dating to the late 17th and early 18th century.
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 Learn more about Toronto, Ontario in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Toronto's government was reorganized in 1953 to coordinate services for the city and surrounding region.
Toronto is home to a vibrant theater scene, where such companies as Soulpepper, the Canadian Stage, and Tarragon produce plays; as well, many Broadway theatrical hits originated in Toronto, such as Showboat and Ragtime.
Toronto is the seat of three universities -- University of Toronto, York University, Ryerson University -- and many other institutes of higher learning, including the Ontario College of Art & Design, Centennial College, George Brown College, Humber College, and Seneca College.
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 Transit Toronto - Content: The Expressways of Toronto (Built and Unbuilt)
The first expressways in the Toronto area were those of the intercity type, and were designed to relieve pressure on existing highways between large urban areas.
In 1953 Metropolitan Toronto was incorporated by the Province of Ontario, as a new upper-tier government for the City of Toronto and 12 surrounding municipalities (Townships of York, East York, North York, Etobicoke, Scarborough; the towns of Weston, Leaside, Mimico and New Toronto and villages of Swansea, Long Branch and Forest Hill).
The Spadina Expressway was to connect central Toronto with the rapidly growing suburbs in the northwest, as the DVP connected with the northeast.
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 Expressway Site Toronto
Toronto is part of an elite group of North American cities that maintains a system of freeways and expressways at the municipal or county level.
Metro Toronto was responsible for both the construction and maintenance of the expressway from Eglinton Ave to its southern end at Weston Rd. The expressway, which has a speed limit of 70 km/h (45 mph), currently has traffic lights at its at-grade intersections.
It was meant to be the eastern terminus of a proposed extension of the Gardiner Expressway freeway, known as the Scarborough Expressway.
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 EH.Net Encyclopedia: Urban Mass Transit In The United States
In 1912, San Francisco launched the effort with its Municipal Railway, to be followed by public systems in Seattle, Detroit, and Toronto.
Moreover, the construction of new roads, including federally-financed expressways, encouraged automobile commuting, whether by driving alone or in a carpool.
The process began in Toronto, whose transit commission used cash from its heavy wartime ridership to open a new subway in 1954.
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 Gardiner Expressway at AllExperts
The Gardiner Expressway, along with the Don Valley Parkway and the Allen Road (the short completed section of the truncated Spadina Expressway), form the municipal expressway system in Toronto.
Subsequent to the 1998 amalgamation of the Metro municipalities into a single Toronto government, the stretch of the Queen Elizabeth Way between Highway 427 and the Humber River was downloaded from the provincial Ministry of Transportation to the new City of Toronto and was redesignated as part of the Gardiner.
Critics of the expressway have long decried its appearance, referring to it as "The Mistake by the Lake", and have argued that it cuts off the city from its waterfront.
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 Greater Toronto Area
The City of Hamilton, Regional Municipality of Niagara and City of Guelph all have significant ties to Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area.
In a 1993 zone split, the City of Toronto retained the 416 code, while the rest of the Greater Toronto Area was assigned the new area code 905.
Prior to the municipal amalagamations that took place with the introduction of regional government, Oshawa was the only nearby city with a significant population and recognition.
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 Jane Jacobs Information
Jacobs was an advocate of a Province of Toronto to separate the city proper from Ontario.
She died in Toronto on 25 April, 2006, at the age of 89, apparently of a stroke at Toronto Western Hospital.
Toronto traffic planners often fault Jacobs for preventing them from considering expressways to meet growing demand from suburban growth and automobile traffic, since the Spadina Expressway cancellation heralded the end of new Municipal expressways in Toronto.
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 [ruv.net] Freelance Designer : : Montreal, Quebec, Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The city boomed as railways were built to New England, Toronto, and the west, and factories were established along the Lachine Canal.
Two new museums were also built, and finally in 1967 the metro opened along with several new expressways in time for Expo '67, which was held in Montreal and was anticipated to attract 50 million visitors.
The members are all elected municipal officers, with the exception of a representative of the government of Québec on the public security committee.
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 Spacing Votes • Blogging Toronto’s 2006 Election » Traffic
Toronto should not be in the business of managing highways when the province already does a relatively good job doing it.
Arguing that a decision on the Gardiner should be made at the ballot box in a future municipal election, Pitfield claimed that Miller is excluding the public from any decision-making regarding the future of the controversial expressway.
His erstwhile Liberal allies at Queen’s Park, having already delivered the City of Toronto Act and a whack of transit money, are in full election preparation mode, which is to say they’ll be hard-pressed to ribbon-cut their way to victory, given the slow-down in the economy and John Tory’s relentless attacks.
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 Looking for Toronto?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
If online guides like this one — and other summaries of APA style in composition textbooks, etc. — do not suffice, students should purchase the APA Publication Manual for their own use (approximately $27 for the recommended spiral-bound edition) or borrow it from a library.
Copies should be available in college and university libraries and in municipal libraries.
Another research guide from Capital Community College, based on the documentation style recommended by the Modern Language Association, is also available online.
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 Oakville-Halton Ontario Highways information, listings and links
The Gardiner Expressway (along with the Don Valley Parkway and the Allen Road/Spadina Expressway) are municipal expressways owned & operated by the City of Toronto.
The QEW was North America's first super highway was re designed as a dual-lane, divided roadway with landscaping and a grass median with trees, based on the advanced design of the autobahns being built in Germany at the time.
The Frederick G. Gardiner Expressway, known locally as "The Gardiner" connects the Don Valley Parkway (DVP) in the east with downtown Toronto alongside the shore of Lake Ontario to extend to the western suburbs and the QEW.
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 Ontario Fishing Guide: Fishing Guide in Ontario, Canada
Often considered the centre of Ontario, the Greater Toronto Area is the province's main hub.
Centred around the city of Toronto, the GTA is full of big city attractions and urban amenities.
In keeping with its urban stature, a variety of taxi and car rental services are also available out of Toronto and the entire area of Southern Ontario is connected by the 400-series of highways and municipal expressways.
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 ipedia.com: Chicago, Illinois Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
During Daley's tenure (he died in office in 1976), the 1968 Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago, four major expressways were built, the Sears Tower became the world's tallest building and O'Hare Airport, which later became the world's busiest airport, was constructed.
University of Chicago, a rigorous institution known for having the most Nobel Prizes asoociated with it than any other university, it is essentially analogous to Hyde Park, the south side neighborhood it calls home.
University of Illinois, Chicago, the largest university in Chicago, located right off where Eisenhower and the Dan Ryan Expressways meet, home to the largest medical school in the nation.
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