加拿大新闻商业网09年3月6日讯/3月6日是多伦多建市175周年纪念日，市政府和许多民间机构安排了不少庆祝节目，有兴趣的人士可以上市政府的网站上查询：www.toronto.ca/175。
175年前，多伦多只有20万人，只是1个普通的港口，经过多年的发展，已经成为加拿大金融、文化中心，人口也超过300万人，变成北美洲著名的大都市。
读者可以到多伦多星报的网站上查阅多伦多的旧照片，看看200年前的多伦多是什么样子
http://www.thestar.com/localhistory
多伦多市政厅大堂今天会展出珍贵的历史照片，供市民观赏，中午12:30-1:30，市议会会重现第1届议会开会的情景，演员们身穿当时的服装，估计会吸引大批市民前往观赏。
简市初期的多伦多街头。
100年前的多伦多港口。
Message from Mayor David Miller
It is my pleasure to announce that Toronto will be celebrating its 175th anniversary in 2009.
The City of Toronto was incorporated on March 6, 1834, following a significant increase in demand for public services in the former municipality of York.
Prominent journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie was chosen as Toronto’s first mayor, representing the fast-growing town of more than 9,000 residents. The city was named capital of the new province of Ontario 33 years later.
Toronto is now Canada’s largest city and home to a diverse population of more than 2.6 million people. It is the economic engine of Canada and one of the greenest and most creative cities in North America. In the past three years, Toronto has won more than 70 awards for quality, innovation and efficiency in delivering public services.
I encourage all Torontonians to join me in celebrating this significant anniversary. From March 6th – 8th, 2009, City Hall will open its doors to the public and host a variety of events to commemorate this milestone. This will be an opportunity for people of all ages to learn about Toronto’s heritage and to enjoy the diverse local talent that our city is home to today. Museums and historical centres across Toronto will also take part in this celebration of our city’s history and culture.
This anniversary will be a time for personal reflection and to celebrate Toronto’s many accomplishments. I hope everyone will have the opportunity to join us in commemorating this significant occasion.
http://www.toronto.ca/175/
Toronto turns 175
Toronto forged its identity amid cholera outbreak
Noor Javed Mar. 07, 2009
Toronto’s history is one of its people – those who founded the city, built it, and vowed to make it their own. Established by the British, it could have remained exclusive, elitist. Instead, from the moment
http://www.thestar.com/HealthZone/News&Features/article/598284
Portraits of ourselves
Kenneth Kidd Mar. 06, 2009
George Orwell once mused we have nothing in common with the figures of our childhood portraits “except that you happen to be the same person.” Toronto has similar portraits and they are all recognizably us and not …
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/597474
175 reasons to love Toronto
Mar. 05, 2009
With Honest Ed’s, Nuit Blanche, and too many Chinatowns to count, there is no place on earth like the 175-year-old Toronto. What to buy for the city that has everything
http://www.thestar.com/Entertainment/article/596779
Christopher Hume
Mar. 05, 2009
Not every day does a city turn 175. That’s not old by civic standards, it’s true; some cities have been around for millennia. But here in North America, it’s getting up there.
http://www.thestar.com/Entertainment/article/596703
Peer into past to fête city’s birthday
Vanessa Lu Feb. 25, 2009
The young hands pound the table tentatively at first – that is, until they get a quiet signal from their teachers it’s okay.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/592655
Local encounters unlock city history
Noor Javed Feb. 25, 2009
The founding of York in 1793. The War of 1812. The rebellion of 1837. Sound familiar? They should – especially if you went to school in Toronto.
http://www.thestar.com/ParentCentral/Education/article/592654
A decade later, Lastman proud he called in army
Jaspreet Tambar Jan. 12, 2009
As Environment Canada predicts more snow this week along with temperatures plunging to nearly —20C, Mel Lastman is warmly recalling his decision 10 years ago to call in the military to fight a snowstorm.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/569281
GTA’s disappearing Bond with Ian Fleming
Kenyon Wallace Nov. 14, 2008
Like a spy that vanishes into the night, leaving behind a half-full martini glass or perhaps even a kiss, GTA landmarks that some say inspired James Bond creator Ian Fleming are disappearing, leaving behind only …
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/536713
Reliving the White Hurricane of 1913
Adam Mayers Nov. 13, 2008
More than 60 years before the gales of November sank the Edmund Fitzgerald, a storm of far greater power swept across the Great Lakes, killing 250 people.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/535983
Portrait of the North St. Lawrence Market
PATTY WINSA Sep. 20, 2008
It’s 7 a.m. Saturday. Despite the time, vendors at the north market have been open for two hours. Meet some of the members of this community, and listen to their stories in our interactive Flash graphic.
http://www.thestar.com/living/Food/article/502582
Fort York grounds to get $12.4M makeover
John Spears Sep. 17, 2008
Toronto city officials are aiming to help you know a lot more about the War of 1812, with a $12.4-million makeover in time for the 200th anniversary of the start of the U.S.-British conflict on June 18, 2012.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/500530
The Great Fire of 1904
Adam Mayers Aug. 05, 2008
A little over 100 years ago on a bitterly cold and windy spring night, a fire swept through the downtown destroying a huge swath of the city’s commercial heart.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/472225
Hemingway feared for High Park’s great trees
Peter Jackson Jul. 31, 2008
In 1923, writing under the pseudonym Peter Jackson in the Toronto Daily Star, Ernest Hemingway wrote of the malady then attacking the fabled oaks of High Park.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/470247
Way cleared to reclaim cemetery
Tim Naumetz Jul. 07, 2008
It has taken more than 100 years, but one of the most unusual cabinet orders in Canada’s history is set to put the inhabitants of a Toronto cemetery finally at peace.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/455417
Islands’ past full of intrigue
Bill Taylor Jul. 02, 2008
Now it can be told – a tale of intrigue and espionage on the Toronto Islands; of sabotage and civil disobedience and a “mole” in the attorney general’s office.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/452448
Mystery of the shoe in the wall
LESLIE SCRIVENER Jun. 22, 2008
A child’s canvas shoe with holes in the toe and the heel were found in the wall of a house being renovated in Etobicoke. What secrets did it conceal?
http://www.thestar.com/GTA/LocalHistory/article/447311
L.M. Montgomery’s Uxbridge home now a historic site
Jun. 14, 2008
The home of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Canadian author who wrote Anne of Green Gables , has been designated a national historic site.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/443518
20 odd things about Toronto
Adam Mayers May 16, 2008
Columns like Looking Back are a little bit like Trivial Pursuit. You learn all kinds of odd things about the city. Some might still be underfoot.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/425953
When Yonge was a toll road
Adam Mayers Mar. 24, 2008
If you’re not a fan of the 407ETR be thankful you didn’t live in Toronto 150 years ago when many arteries in an out of the city were privately owned and operated toll roads.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/349982
The Ontario Bank’s 1906 collapse
Adam Mayers Feb. 19, 2008
The collapse of the Ontario Bank in 1906 has some parallels to the curent woes of France’s Société Générale bank.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/304707
