Handout: Toronto: Interesting Facts

• Toronto is Canada's largest city.
  
  
• The University of Toronto (U of T) is the largest of its kind in North America.
  
  
• Toronto's baseball team is the Blue Jays.
  
  
• Toronto's football team is the Toronto Argonauts.
  
  
• Toronto's basketball team is the Toronto Raptors.
  
  
• The CN Tower is the worlds's tallest free standing structure.
  
  
• "Toronto" is a Huron word meaning "meeting place".
  
  
• In 1849 and 1904 large fires destroyed most of Toronto's downtown section.
  
  
• The first streetcars in Toronto were horse-drawn and came into use in 1861.
  
  
• In 1890 electric streetcars replaced the existing horse-drawn streetcars.
  
  
• In the early 1950's Toronto opened Canada's first subway.