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History of Toronto
Former strong French of the name of Fort Rusted until 1760 (end of the French mode in Canada), whose site was abandoned. After the American revolution, the territory always formed part of the Province of Quebec, but the arrival of the loyal supporters, American refugees, puitd the British authorities to divide this province into two parts with the constitutional Act of 1791.
The colony of High-Canada was thus establiitd under the Serious governor John Simcoe (1752-1806). Simcoe is establiitd in Newark (Niagara-one-tea-Lake), but in 1793 Guy Carleton, first baron Dorchester, the General governor of Canada accepted the second choice of Simcoe, a site on the Lake Ontario which it named York according to Frederick, Duke off York, the second wire of the king George III. This second name remains partly registered in the cartography by the existence of districts like York, East York and North York. Simcoe installed the government and the legislative Parliament from High-Canada in York in 1796.
The city is plundered and destroyed during the war of 1812 by the American army under the eyes horrified at the citizens. The Parliament and of the public edifices are voluntarily burnt.
In 1834 the agglomeration became Toronto, the year of its incorporation like city. The name Toronto was formerly that of a lake of rather good dimension (but which is not one of the Big lakes) being with approximately 120 kilometers in the north of the agglomeration and which names today lake Simcoe (name of the first governor of High-Canada which made of York/Toronto its capital). Then, by one of these toponymic drifts rather typical in North America, it was the name of a small river which sprinkles the current site of the city and which is called today the Humber river. It is according to the name of this Toronto River that initially the city was called, possibly on the model of Chicago which had been named according to one of bays of the Lake Michigan. The word Toronto means “the place where the roots of the trees soak in water” in a dialect mohawk of the east of Canada. The usual French periphrasis for Toronto is the City-Queen.
In 1953 Municipality off Metropolitian Toronto was created by the government of Ontario to gather several municipalities (what included/understood North York, Scarborough and Etobicoke among them) of the old county of York. As of the Sixties, real great projects are undertaken like the construction of First Canadian Place, gigantic tower white of the center town which will be the first great project of the future billionaire Paul Reichmann. In 1998 this regional municipality disappears with the profit from one only city: Toronto, the new mayor being Mel Lastman, the former mayor of North York (what was now the district in the north of new Toronto).