GEO 793 - Geography of Toronto MIDTERM exam questions and answers.
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Toronto Area
Located northwest of Lake Ontario
Located on broad sloping plateau (no real difference in elevation) cut by numerous river valleys Rouge, don, and Humber valley
GTA also known as:
Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) by Statistics Canada with slightly different boundaries
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GEO 793 - Geography of Toronto MIDTERM exam
questions and answers
Toronto Area
Located northwest of Lake Ontario
Located on broad sloping plateau (no real
difference in elevation) cut by numerous river
valleys Rouge, don, and Humber valley
GTA also known as:
Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) by
Statistics Canada with slightly different boundaries
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,Greater Golden Horseshoe
Includes GTHA and Niagara Peninsula
City of Toronto
Capital of Ontario along Lake Ontario's
northwestern shore - Canada's largest/most
multicultural city
Dynamic metropolis, skyscrapers, free-standing CN
tower
Green spaces: Queens Park, 400-acre High Park,
Toronto Zoo, Don Valley Trails
World leader in business, finance, tech,
entertainment, and culture
Quick Toronto Facts
307 km of rivers and creeks run through the city
flowing in lake Ontario
More than 1600 named parks comprising more
than 8000 hectares of land (ravines, valleys,
woodlots, parks, beaches, gold courses, and
parkettes)
Has about 10 million trees - 4 million of which are
publicly owned Includes 600,000 street trees and
3.5 million trees in parks, etc.
City of Toronto owns and operates nearly 100,000
housing units
, There are more than 106,000 businesses in Toronto
(2017)
Toronto's Population:
2.93 Million (2017)
In 2017, the Province of Ontario projected that the
city of Toronto could grow by 500,000 people in the
next 25 years
Toronto's districts
Districts:
East York
Etobicoke
North York
Old Toronto
Scarborough
York
Toronto's traditional territories
the Mississauga of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg,
the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the
Wendat peoples
Toronto's Treaties
covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississauga
of the Credit
and the Williams Treaty signed with multiple
Mississaugas and Chippewa Bands
Indigenous Population Census Stats:
60 percent were First Nations (North American
Indian)
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