Toronto - geography.

« to arrive in the Toronto CMA, most conspicuously from Hong Kong.

People of Chinese origin accounted for over 9 percent of the city’s population at the 2001 census.Foreign-born residents constitute 44 percent of the population, the highest metropolitan percentage on the North American continent.

The ethnic breakdown of metropolitanToronto in the 2001 census included Canadian, 18.5 percent; English, 16.9 percent; Scottish, 11.1 percent; Irish, 10.5 percent; Chinese, 9.4 percent; Italian, 9.2 percent;East Indian, 7.4 percent; French, 4.7 percent; German, 4.7 percent; Portuguese, 3.7 percent; Polish, 3.6 percent; Jewish, 3.5 percent; Jamaican, 3.2 percent; and Filipino,3.0 percent. IV EDUCATION AND CULTURE University of TorontoFounded in 1827, the University of Toronto is one of the largest universities in Canada and offers undergraduate and graduateprograms to more than 50,000 students.

Set in bucolic Queen’s Park, also the site of the Ontario Parliament buildings, the campusoffers students and faculty a peaceful academic setting in the heart of downtown Toronto.Robert Francis/Hutchison Library Toronto is the cultural center of Ontario and of English-speaking Canada.

Three public universities serve the region.

The renowned University of Toronto (1827), in thecentral area, has more than 50,000 students.

The University of Toronto also has two suburban campuses, one to the west in the city of Mississauga and another to the eastin Scarborough within the City of Toronto.

Recently, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (1963) joined it.

Near the northern margin of the city is York University(1959), a large research and teaching institution.

In the central area are Ryerson Polytechnic University (1948), and the Ontario College of Art (1876).

Four postsecondarycommunity colleges operate on 29 scattered campuses.

High schools and elementary schools are placed throughout residential areas. The Art Gallery of Ontario is located near the downtown.

It has a large collection of sculptures by British artist Henry Moore and paintings by the Group of Seven, prominentCanadian artists from the 1920s.

The Ontario Science Centre in North York, the region’s principal science museum, and the Royal Ontario Museum on Queen’s Park, one ofNorth America’s finest institutions for art and archaeology, are popular with young people interested in the natural and artificial wonders of the world.

Among other culturalfacilities in Toronto are McLaughlin Planetarium; Massey Hall (1894), a concert hall; Roy Thompson Hall, home of the noted Toronto Symphony Orchestra; andHummingbird Centre (formerly O’Keefe Centre), home of the Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet of Canada. Toronto is second only to New York City on the North American continent for live theater: Its major theaters include the Prince of Wales and the Ford Centre for thePerforming Arts in the city center of North York.

Toronto also has many off-Broadway-type small theaters.

Theatergoers from the Great Lakes region, as far east asSyracuse, New York, and west beyond Detroit, Michigan, board buses to see productions in Toronto.

The Toronto International Film Festival, held for two weeks everySeptember, is one of the best-attended film festivals in the world and has become an important source for discovery of new films by motion-picture distribution companies. V RECREATION On the central waterfront is Harbourfront, a redeveloped industrial region containing the Canadian Railway Museum and the Marine Museum, several restaurants, andpedestrian walkways along the water’s edge.

Across the bay are the Toronto Islands, a favorite playground.

Exhibition Park on the western lakeshore hosts the annual , oneof the largest fairs in the world.

Caribana is a major Caribbean music and costume festival held there every August.

Adjoining the exhibition grounds is Ontario Place, anextensive entertainment park.

Also in the vicinity is old Fort York, which still looks substantially as it did when it was rebuilt after American forces burned it in 1813 duringthe War of 1812.

About 3 km (about 2 mi) northwest of City Hall, on the brow of Davenport hill, is Casa Loma, an imposing European-style castle that is now a museum.

Inthe far northeast side of the City is the Toronto Zoo, a modern zoo covering many acres and with well-designed animal displays. Originally known as the SkyDome, the Rogers Centre is a state-of-the-art stadium complex that opened in 1989.

The stadium features a retractable roof that can open in 20minutes to expose the playing field and most of the 50,000 seats to the open air.

It is the home of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and the TorontoBlue Jays of Major League Baseball.

The Blue Jays, winners of the 1992 and 1993 World Series, were the first non-U.S.

team to win professional baseball's championship.

In1999 the Air Canada Centre opened as the home for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association and the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League.The Hockey Hall of Fame is in downtown Toronto. VI ECONOMY Toronto’s economy has changed over the past several decades, with financial and business services becoming the largest sector.

Included in this sector are banks, stockmarkets, insurance, advertising, marketing, accounting firms, and law firms.

Toronto ranks third on the continent, behind New York City and Chicago, Illinois, in the numberof major corporations that have their head offices there. Toronto is the leading printing and publishing center of English-speaking Canada and also has more software production companies than other parts of Canada.

One of thecommunity colleges, Sheridan College in Oakville, has a well-known training program for animators.

In distribution services, Toronto is the chief Canadian center fortelecommunications, broadcasting, and air transport.

Government and other public services, notably health and education, are major employers. Manufacturing, once a mainstay of the diverse economy, receded somewhat in the 1990s.

Automobile parts and assembly at the same time became a stronger componentof the manufacturing sector, and the Toronto region’s importance in this field is second only to that of Detroit.

Cars and trucks are Canada’s most valuable export, and theauto manufacturer General Motors is the largest industrial employer.

Another large employer is Northern Telecom, a major world producer of telecommunicationsequipment.

De Havilland Aircraft produces commuter aircraft, and the area also has a number of aircraft parts producers.

Construction, once a strong element in the Torontoeconomy, declined in the 1990s. Manufacturing and other fields have been helped by relatively cheap electrical energy provided by Ontario Power Generation.

Power for Toronto was originally generated insteam plants and later at Niagara Falls.

Natural gas and oil pipelines connect the region to the sources of these resources in western Canada. Within the city, the Toronto Transit Commission operates subways, buses, and streetcars.

The streetcars are preserved on certain downtown routes as a link to the city’spast and are a distinctive feature of Toronto.

Municipalities outside Toronto operate their own bus services that link to the Toronto system.

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