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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 municipalities of ...
Effective January 1, 1998, the Metropolitan government was abolished and Toronto, East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, and York were amalgamated to form the new City of Toronto. With the creation of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, what originally comprised the Townships of York, Etobicoke, and Scarborough were separated from the remainder of York County.
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The Toronto Purchase was the surrender of lands in the Toronto area from the Mississaugas of New Credit to the British crown. An initial, disputed, agreement was made in 1787, in exchange for various items. The agreement was revisited in 1805, intended to clarify the area purchased. The agreement remained in dispute for over 200 years, until 2010, ...
The capital of Upper Canada was moved from what is now Niagara-On-The-Lake to the north shore of Lake Ontario to provide better protection from the U.S. The capital was originally named York, but was renamed in 1834 to Toronto.
York Mills established as a transfer point for Northwest Company boats. Boats went up the Don River to York Mills then were hauled on wheels to Holland Landing. JH Yonge Street opened. JH
Land was granted or sold in the area that was part of York County and would later become North York.
Andrew McGlashan emigrated from Scotland and built a log cabin east of Bayview Avenue and north of York Mills Road. JH
The first school, a log cabin, was built to serve the Hogg’s Hollow area behind the Miller Tavern. JH
All the able-bodied citizens of the area were part of the militia and served in many of the battles that took place against the American invasion of the then British territory.
Andrew McGlashan sold the south half of his property to William Harrison and moved to Hogg’s Hollow where he built North York’s first Tannery of mud bricks. JH
Thomas Arnold, Township assessor, erected a sawmill on the west side of Yonge Street in Hogg’s Hollow. He later built a three-storey flour mill on the east side of Yonge. JH
First industry opened in North York — wool and saw mills near Lawrence and Leslie streets, built by Scottish immigrant Alexander Milne. SG
Apr 15, 2016 · Originally known as Dublin, York Township was a large area surrounding Toronto, designated as the provincial capital and renamed York in 1793. The name Toronto was resumed when the Town of York became a city in 1834. On January 1, 1850, the Township of York was incorporated within the large County of York. Between 1853 and 1926, about a dozen ...
The Archives has resources about the former municipalities that existed before the municipal amalgamation of 1998. Former City of Toronto Records. Even when it was a modest city of 9,000 and was known as “Muddy York,” Toronto was the commercial and financial hub of its large agricultural county. The history of the City of Toronto is the ...
Apr 12, 2024 · York County is a historic county in Upper Canada, Canada West, and the Canadian province of Ontario. York County was created on 16 June 1792 [1] and was part of the jurisdiction of the Home District of Upper Canada. It originally comprised all of what is now the regional municipalities of York, Peel, and Halton, and the city of Toronto, as well ...
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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.
