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History and Culture of Toronto, Canada: Touristic Information
De Aaron Ellis
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History and Culture of Toronto, Canada. Touristic Information. Welcome to Toronto, the most multicultural diverse city on the planet: over 140 languages are spoken. Study the history and culture of Toronto City for better understanding, it serves for a perfect knowledge of an environment, people, tradition and etiquette. It also serve a strong key to a successful tourism. It's estimated that over half of Toronto's residents were born outside Canada, and despite its complex makeup, Torontonians generally get along. When the weather is fine, Toronto is a blast: a vibrant, big-time city abuzz with activity. Some of the world's finest restaurants are found here, alongside happening bars and clubs and eclectic festivals. Yes, winter in Toronto can be a real drag. Things get messy on the congested highways and archaic public transit system. But come with patience, an open mind and during the delightfully temperate and colorful spring or fall, and you're bound to have a great time. There is a fresh international buzz about Toronto. Perhaps it's the influx of flush new residents from across the globe; or was it the Pan-Am Games that shone a spotlight on Toronto? Either way, this is a city that is waking up to its own greatness.
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History and Culture of Toronto, Canada: Touristic Information
De Aaron Ellis
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History and Culture of Toronto, Canada. Touristic Information. Welcome to Toronto, the most multicultural diverse city on the planet: over 140 languages are spoken. Study the history and culture of Toronto City for better understanding, it serves for a perfect knowledge of an environment, people, tradition and etiquette. It also serve a strong key to a successful tourism. It's estimated that over half of Toronto's residents were born outside Canada, and despite its complex makeup, Torontonians generally get along. When the weather is fine, Toronto is a blast: a vibrant, big-time city abuzz with activity. Some of the world's finest restaurants are found here, alongside happening bars and clubs and eclectic festivals. Yes, winter in Toronto can be a real drag. Things get messy on the congested highways and archaic public transit system. But come with patience, an open mind and during the delightfully temperate and colorful spring or fall, and you're bound to have a great time. There is a fresh international buzz about Toronto. Perhaps it's the influx of flush new residents from across the globe; or was it the Pan-Am Games that shone a spotlight on Toronto? Either way, this is a city that is waking up to its own greatness.
- Editora:
- SONITTEC LTD
- Lançado em:
- Mar 9, 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780463682340
- Formato:
- Livro
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History and Culture of Toronto, Canada
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Summary
Introduction
City Site
Climate
City Layout
Economy
Manufacturing
Cultural Life
The History
The Early Peoples
After the Ice Age
Ancient Toronto
Evolving Societies in a Changing Environment 6000 BCE - 600 CE
New Crops and the Emergence of Iroquoian Cultures, 600-1600
Arrival of European Goods (but not Europeans) in the 16th Century
Natives and Newcomers
Did Étienne Brûlé Visit Toronto in 1615?
Disease and Dislocation among the First Nations in the 17th Century
Seneca Iroquois Settlement in Toronto, 1660s-80s
The Name ‘Toronto’
The Alonkian Move to Toronto, C.1690
French Posts, 1720s and 1750s
The Early Years of British Rule, 1763-93
A Provincial Centre
The Military Birth of Urban Toronto on a Troubled Frontier
The Backwoods Capital
The War of 1812
Upper Canada’s Administrative and Commercial Centre
Incorporation of the City of Toronto, 1834
Trauma and Rebellion
An Industrializing City
Toronto’s Victorian Persona
Railways, Industrialization and Commercial Growth
Confederation
Class and Gender in the Late 19th Century
Victorian Urbanization, Culture, Education and Reform
The First Half of the 20th Century,
A Commercial City at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Culture, Creativity and Sport in the Early 1900s
Transportation in the Early Twentieth Century
The Maturing Social Environment in Challenging Times
The First World War and its Aftermath
The Great Depression, 1929-39
The Second World War, 1939-45
The Modern Metropolis
The Great Demographic Revolution
The Forgotten Revolution: Suburbanization
‘Metro’ and ‘Megacity’
Transportation and the Environment in the Modern Metropolis
Transforming the Downtown
Education
Economic Shifts and Inequalities
Culture and Creativity in a Liberalizing Society
Toronto in the Post-Modern World
Tourism
Places in Toronto
The Monkey’s Paw
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Casa Loma
Winter Garden Theatre
Sewers of Toronto
Allan Gardens Conservatory
Lower Bay Station
Leslieville’s Crazy Doll House
Toronto’s Half House
The Little House
Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy
SkullStore Oddity Shop
Toronto’s Half House
CN Tower: The Tallest Metal Staircase on Earth
Bata Shoe Museum
Toronto Neighbourhood Watch Signs
The Gibraltar Point Lighthouse
Cube House
Ireland Park
Arthur Conan Doyle Room
The Yorkville Rock
R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant
Toronto PATH
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Toronto
Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial
Berczy Park Dog Fountain
Simcoe Park ‘Worker’s Monument’
Secret Swing
History and Culture of Toronto, Canada
Touristic Information
Author
Aaron Ellis.
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Summary
History and Culture Values
The Importance of History in Our Own Lives
These two fundamental reasons for studying history underlie more specific and quite diverse uses of history in our own lives. History well told is beautiful. Many of the historians who most appeal to the general reading public know the importance of dramatic and skillful writing as well as of accuracy. Biography and military history appeal in part because of the tales they contain. History as art and entertainment serves a real purpose, on aesthetic grounds but also on the level of human understanding.
Stories well done are stories that reveal how people and societies have actually functioned, and they prompt thoughts about the human experience in other times and places. The same aesthetic and humanistic goals inspire people to immerse themselves in efforts to reconstruct quite remote pasts, far removed from immediate, present-day utility. Exploring what historians sometimes call the pastness of the past
the ways people in distant ages constructed their lives involves a sense of beauty and excitement, and ultimately another perspective on human life and society.
History Contributes to Moral Understanding
History also provides a terrain for moral contemplation. Studying the stories of individuals and situations in the past allows a student of history to test his or her own moral sense, to hone it against some of the real complexities individuals have faced in difficult settings. People who have weathered adversity not just in some work of fiction, but in real, historical circumstances can provide inspiration. History teaching by example
is one phrase that describes this use of a study of the past a study not only of certifiable heroes, the great men and women of history who successfully worked through moral dilemmas, but also of more ordinary people who provide lessons in courage, diligence, or constructive protest.
History Provides Identity
History also helps provide identity, and this is unquestionably one of the reasons all modern nations encourage its teaching in some form. Historical data include evidence about how families, groups, institutions and whole countries were formed and about how they have evolved while retaining cohesion. For many Canadians, studying the history of one’s own family is the most obvious use of history, for it provides facts about genealogy and (at a slightly more complex level) a basis for understanding how the family has interacted with larger historical change. Family identity is established and confirmed. Many institutions, businesses, communities, and social units, such as ethnic groups in the United States, use history for similar identity purposes. Merely defining the group in the present pales against the possibility of forming an identity based on a rich past. And of course nations use identity history as well and sometimes abuse it. Histories that tell the national story, emphasizing distinctive features of the national experience, are meant to drive home an understanding of national values and a commitment to national loyalty.
Introduction
Toronto, city, capital of the province of Ontario, southeastern Canada. It is the most populous city in Canada, a multicultural city, and the country’s financial and commercial centre. Its location on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario, which forms part of the border between Canada and the United States, and its access to Atlantic shipping via the St. Lawrence Seaway and to major U.S. industrial centres via the Great Lakes have enabled Toronto to become an important international trading centre. Moreover, the city is positioned on the edge of some of the best farmland in Canada, with a climate favourable to growing a wide range of crops, thereby making Toronto a transportation, distribution, and manufacturing centre. Most importantly, its central location, along with a host of political policies favouring international trade, places this city with the greatest economic ties to, and influence from, the United States. Since the second half of the 20th century the city has grown phenomenally, from a rather sedate provincial town Toronto the Good
to a lively, thriving, cosmopolitan metropolitan area. Area 244 square miles (632 square km); metro. area, 2,280 square miles (5,905 square km). Pop. (2011) 2,615,060; metro. area, 5,583,064; (2016) 2,731,571; metro. area, 5,928,040.
City Site
The melting of ice from the past glacial age altered the Toronto region’s landscape profoundly. Approximately 11,000 years ago a body of water much larger (about 130 feet [40 metres] higher) than the present-day Lake Ontario was in existence there a glacial lake referred to as Lake Iroquois. With the opening up of the St. Lawrence River, the lake waters receded, dropping in excess of 300 feet (90 metres) below the present level. Over time, the water levels rose to the present condition, leaving a marshy shoreline but a fine natural harbour. The site of the city is almost uniformly flat, although 3 to 4 miles (5 to 6 km) inland there is a fairly sharp rise of some 40 feet (12 metres) the shoreline elevation of the former glacial lake
The resources of the surrounding land were also important to Toronto’s development. The rich sedimentary soils of southern Ontario provided excellent farmland, and the ancient rock of the Canadian Shield to the north not only was a source of valuable mineral wealth but also was endowed with forests of spruce and pine. Another physical feature is Toronto’s location at the mouth of the Humber River, a river that facilitated a trade route north to Lake Simcoe and a shortcut to Georgian Bay on Lake Huron.
Climate
Toronto has a continental climate that is modified considerably by the proximity of the Great Lakes. Average temperature for January is in the low to mid-20s F (about –4.2 °C), but the wind chill factor can decrease this temperature considerably. In summer, the average July temperature is in the low 70s F (about 22.2 °C); however, it is not unusual to have summer days where the temperature exceeds 90 °F (32 °C) and the humidity is 100 percent. The prevailing westerly winds and the Great Lakes also influence precipitation, which is relatively even year-round, amounting to about 33 inches (834 mm) annually. In winter, though, this precipitation is in the form of snow and totals in excess of 4 feet (131 cm). Latitude plays a role in Toronto’s relatively mild climate (as well as that of the farming region of southern Ontario); at 43°40′ N
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