GEO 793 Lecture 3: GEO 793 Week 3 Notes
2 Oct 2016
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William lyon mackenzie: elected mayor of toronto in 1834, 1837 rebellion why its important is because it takes place on yonge street. End of 1800s and beginning of 1900s: immigrants from ireland, uk, video of spadina museum 9 minutes in total watch it by yourself at home. Toronto a city of immigrants: yonge street and beginning of ttc video. Named after sir george yonge, political friend of governor simcoe. 1830s small cabs and horse rides in the town of york. Ttc took over in 1921 large modern street cars. Big dig yonge street was connected to union station to york line. Iroquoius village more than 1 family could live there: tkaronto. Tkaronto meaning place where trees are in water. Speculation that when indigeneous people arrived, they saw this. 1750-60: relations between the french and the mississaugas. 1760: british relations with the mississaugas: colonization 101. Got a certain amount of money from british so that british could take over the land.
