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Toronto, Ontario

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The Lake Ontario city of Toronto is 340 feet [103.63 m] above sea level.<1>

Time Zone: Toronto lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Communities that are also named Toronto can be found in:

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At the time of the 2006 StatCan Census, Toronto had a population of 2,503,281 people<2>. This is an increase of 0.88% since the previous Census (with 2,481,494 people in 2001).

With 2,503,281 people, Toronto represented 20.59% of the total population of Ontario, making it the province's most populous community.

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<3>2006
Population
Change
Since 2001
 Brampton   W17 mi [27.36 km]433,80633.3% increase
 Don Mills   NE6 mi [9.66 km]---
 Downsview   NW4 mi [6.44 km]---
 East York   NE4 mi [6.44 km]---
 Islington   SW6 mi [9.66 km]---
 Markham   NE15 mi [24.14 km]261,57325.39% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Toronto.

Websites for Toronto

Official Website:   www.toronto.ca/
   
Chamber of Commerce:   www.bot.com/
Junior League:   www.jlt.org/

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for Toronto, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.




Search for Local Businesses

People have found Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Toronto. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

Lodging     Gas Stations     Banks              
Bed & Breakfast     Truck Stops     Real Estate    
Campgrounds      Rentals    
Restaurants     Auto Repair      
 RV Repair     Churches    
Food/Groceries        
Pharmacy     Auto Parts     Libraries    
  RV Parts     Schools    
Attractions     Motorcycle Parts     Government Offices    
     
Fishing/Hunting     Hospitals      
Hiking/Camping     Doctors      
  Dentists      
Other...     Veterinarians      

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Toronto:

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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Toronto? Please visit the Map Page for Toronto.


Footnotes

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Toronto - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<2>Unless noted otherwise, the population counts we use are estimates. Our population values come different sources and should not be considered official.

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<3>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Toronto and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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