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UTC−05:00 (Eastern) York County is a historic county in Upper Canada, Canada West, and the Canadian province of Ontario. It was organized by the Upper Canada administration from the lands of the Toronto Purchase and others. Created in 1792, at its largest size, it encompassed the area that presently comprises the City of Toronto, the regional ...
At the time, York Region was known as York County and it was comprised of many communities formed through settlement occurring during the early 1800s. As settlement intensified, more roads and paths were created; the sparsely settled natural forests were slowly cleared for agriculture and many homes and businesses built and established.
Mar 9, 2022 · Name of County: Date Formed: Boundary Changes: Parent County: Counties Created by Boundary Changes: Albany: 1683 Nov 01 Details: Colonial lands Tryon 1772, Charlotte 1772, Greene 1800, Columbia 1786, Rensselaer 1791, Saratoga 1791, Schoharie 1795, Schenectady 1809 Allegany: 1806 Apr 07 Details: Genesee, Steuben (1808) Genesee 1811, Wyoming 1846 ...
Named from the town of York, now Toronto, established by Governor Simcoe (1792) as the capital of the Province, near the site of a French Fort (Rouille) which was burned in 1759. The county is about equally divided by Yonge Street, the road built by Simcoe’s Queen’s Rangers from Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe, and at the time of the first surveys (1791) was clothed with pine and hardwood forests.
York County's West Riding was divided once in 1816 to form Gore District (later Halton, Wentworth, Waterloo and Wellington Counties) and again in 1851 to form Peel County. Counties, districts and townships in different areas of the province may have shared the same name. For example, Victoria County is different from the earlier Victoria District.
Nov 13, 2008 · November 13, 2008. Created by ImportBot. Imported from University of Toronto MARC record . Illustrated historical atlas of the county of York. by , 1969, P. Martin Associates edition, in English.
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In 1953, the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was created to administer common services for the City of the Toronto, the townships of East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough and York as well as seven villages and towns that had been separated from these townships over time; each of these municipalities retained their mayors or reeves and councils.
