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Toronto is a Canadian city located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario, and is the provincial capital of Ontario. Toronto is a global city, exerting significant regional and national influence, and is one of the world's most multicultural and ethnically diverse cities.[citation needed] It is Canada's financial centre and economic engine, as well as one of the country's most important cultural, artistic, and health sciences centres. Toronto was named the world's most livable city in 1994 by The Economist. It was displaced in 2005 by Vancouver, but is still ranked among the top ten.

The city of Toronto proper has a population of 2,481,494 (2001 census) and is the most populous city in Canada. The population of the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) is estimated at 5,304,100 in 2005. The Greater Toronto Area (GTA), slightly larger than the Toronto CMA, is defined by provincial authorities for urban planning purposes. Toronto is at the centre of the Golden Horseshoe, a densely populated region in Ontario which is home to roughly eight million people, or one quarter of the population of canada.

In 1998, the current City of Toronto was amalgamated from its six prior municipalities and regional government. The current mayor of Toronto is David Miller. In January 2005, it was designated by the federal government as one of Canada's cultural capitals. Toronto is sometimes nicknamed T.O., T dot, The Big Smoke or Hogtown.

'Toronto' means 'place where trees stand in the water'. It is an Iroquois name in reference to what is now Lake Simcoe (then Lake Toronto) to the north, where Hurons installed tree saplings to corral fish. The portage between Lake Ontario and Lake Huron that went this route was called the 'Toronto Portage', or 'Passage'. The first European presence was established by French traders at Fort Rouillé in 1750. The first large influx of Europeans was by United Empire Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution in the mid-to late-1780s.

Toronto grew slowly in the initial years and was used by the British primarily as a naval base. When Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe moved the capital of Upper Canada from Newark to Toronto in 1793 he renamed the town York. By 1800 the town was still very small, smaller than Kingston, and consisted of probably not more than fifty families. York was captured, its surrender negotiated by John Strachan, and its major buildings burned by U.S. soldiers in 1813 (during the War of 1812). After the war, the city grew more rapidly throughout the remainder of the nineteenth century by becoming one of the main destinations of immigrants to Canada.

On March 6, 1834, the Township of York reverted to its original name of Toronto. A bustling steamboat entry port burgeoned in the 1840s and the city's development was aided by the addition of gaslit streetlights and sewers. The city grew even more rapidly after it was linked by rail to the upper Great Lakes in 1854. By the 1870s, industrialization reached a feverish pace and helped to ensure Toronto's place as a major centre of urban growth in the new Canadian Confederation.

In the second half of the Twentieth Century, with an influx of post-war immigrants, and, after 1970, immigrants from the developing world, Toronto surpassed Montreal as Canada's most populous city. At the same time, the city's banking and exchange centers also surpassed those of Montreal. This happened at a time when Canada had repatriated much of its stock and bond trade from London, requiring the establishment of a domestic trading center. Its stock market, which, until the early 1960s, primarily capitalized high-risk ventures, expanded to become one of the world's major exchanges.

Toronto is one of the most multicultural cities in the world. In 2004, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ranked Toronto second, behind Miami, in its "List of World Cities with the Largest Percentage of Foreign-born Population". Though ranking first, Miami's foreign-born population is mostly Hispanic, whereas Toronto's is significantly more diverse. Toronto also ranked ahead of Los Angeles, Vancouver, New York City, Singapore, and Sydney. The resulting cultural diversity is reflected in the numerous ethnic neighbourhoods of the city.

Toronto represents a multicultural mosaic. The 2001 Canadian census indicates that 42.8% of Toronto's population belong to a visible minority group. In March 2005, Statistics Canada projected that the visible minority proportion will comprise a majority in both Toronto and Vancouver by 2012.

In 1900, the overwhelming proportion of Toronto's population originated in Great Britain and Ireland. During the 20th century, large scale immigration has changed the demographics of Toronto and there are now people from many different ethnic and national origins living in the city. Areas like Koreatown, Chinatown, Little Jamaica, Little India, Portugal Village, Corso Italia and Little Italy are examples of these large changes in the population's origins. Significant Population groups that have had an overwhelming preferance for Toronto compaired to other Canadian and American cities are Jamaicans, Sri Lankans, Guyaneese, Italians, Somalians and Ghanaians. Toronto holds the largest Sri Lankan Population outside of Sri Lanka.

Religion: Roman Catholicism (33.4%), Anglican Church (5.9%) (Pentecostal, Baptist, Church of God etc.)(11.3%). Islam,(5.5%) Hinduism (4.1%), Judaism (3.5%) Buddhism (4.0%) Sikhism (4.0%) No religion or beliefs (16.6)%

While English is the predominant language spoken by Torontonians, Statistics Canada reports that other language groups are significant, including Chinese, Portuguese, Tamil, Persian, Spanish, Punjabi and Italian. Italian is spoken second to English in languages used at work.

The City of Toronto covers an area of 641 square kilometres (247 sq mi) and is bounded by Lake Ontario to the south, Etobicoke Creek and Highway 427 to the west, Steeles Avenue to the north, and the Rouge River to the east. In addition to Etobicoke Creek and the Rouge River, the city is intersected by two major rivers and their tributaries, the Humber River in the west end and the Don River just east of the central core. The concentration and protection of ravines allows for large tracts of densely forested valleys with recreational trails within the city.

However, the ravines also interfere with the city's street grid, and many of the major thoroughfares such as Finch Avenue, Leslie Street, Lawrence Avenue, St. Clair Avenue and Keele Street are terminated as a result, but continue on the other side of the ravines. Many others, such as Bloor Street/Danforth Avenue viaduct require large bridges to cross high above the ravines.

Toronto's climate is moderated by its southerly location within Canada and its proximity to Lake Ontario; its climate is among the mildest of any place in Canada east of the Rocky Mountain range. However, the daily weather is highly variable, particularly during the winter months. Mild periods often occur throughout the winter (temperatures in the 5-10 °C range (40s°F) or even higher are not uncommon) triggering regular melting of snow on the ground, so that there are snow free periods even in mid-winter.

There are usually two or three bitter cold snaps each year, where maximum temperatures only reach into the -10°C (14°F) to -20°C (-4°F) range, and minimums can drop to near -30°C (-22°F) , often accompanied by strong winds making it feel even colder. The coldest ever temperature recorded at Toronto Pearson International Airport was -31.3°C (-24.3°F) on January 4, 1981, and the coldest ever wind chill reading was -44.7°C (-48.5°F) also on January 4, 1981. The average January maximum temperature is -2.1 °C (28.2°F), and the average minimum is -10.5°C (13.1°F).

In the summer, daytime temperatures can climb as high as 35°C (95°F), but high humidity often causes the equivalent humidex value to be 40°C (104 °F) or even higher. The highest ever temperature recorded at Toronto Pearson was 38.3°C (100.9°F) on August 25, 1948, and the highest ever humidex reading was 50.3°C (122.5°F) on July 14, 1995. The average July maximum temperature is 26.8°C (80°F), and the average minimum is 14.8°C (58.6°F).

Autumn offers pleasant daytime temperatures followed by refreshingly cool nights. Spring is typically the shortest season of the year, generally with warm days and cool nights. The average yearly precipitation is 793 millimetres (31.7 inches), with an average annual snowfall of about 115 centimetres (46 inches). Precipitation is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year, but summer is usually the wettest (and also sunniest) season.

Severe weather phenomena include periods of intense cold in winter and extreme heat in summer (such temperature extremes are usually short-lived, however), freezing rainstorms, thunderstorms, and hail. Toronto is rarely affected by the remnants of Atlantic hurricanes, although Hurricane Hazel in 1954 produced widespread flooding and damage throughout the area.