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Toronto was founded as the Town of York and capital of Upper Canada in 1793 after the Mississaugas sold the land to the British in the Toronto Purchase. [ 1] For over 12,000 years, Indigenous People have lived in the Toronto area. The ancestors of the Huron-Wendat were the first known groups to establish agricultural villages in the area about ...
The history of Ontario covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. The lands that make up present-day Ontario, the most populous province of Canada as of the early 21st century have been inhabited for millennia by groups of Aboriginal people, with French and British exploration and colonization ...
Religion has been a major influence on the societies, cultures, traditions, philosophies, artistic expressions and laws within present-day Europe. The largest religion in Europe is Christianity. [1] However, irreligion and practical secularisation are also prominent in some countries. [2] [3] In Southeastern Europe, three countries ( Bosnia and ...
The Tower of Babel [a] is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis [1] meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. [2] [3] [4] [5]According to the story, a united human race speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the land of Shinar (Hebrew: שִׁנְעָר, romanized: Šinʿār; Ancient Greek: Σενναάρ, romanized: Sennaár).
Toronto's Jewish community is the most populous and one of the oldest in the country, forming a significant part of the history of the Jews in Canada. It numbered about 240,000 in the 2001 census, having overtaken Montreal in the 1970s. As of 2011, the Greater Toronto Area is home to 188,710 Jews. [1] The community in Toronto is composed of ...
Religion in Canada encompasses a wide range of beliefs and customs that historically has been dominated by Christianity. [ 4][ 5] The constitution of Canada refers to God', however Canada has no official church and the government is officially committed to religious pluralism. [ 6] Freedom of religion in Canada is a constitutionally protected ...
[32] [33] Toronto is known for its many skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, [34] in particular the tallest free-standing structure on land outside of Asia, the CN Tower. [35] The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks, [36] and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational ...
Christianity is the most adhered-to religion in Canada, with 19,373,330 Canadians, or 53.3%, identifying themselves as of the 2021 census. [1] The preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms refers to God. The French colonization beginning in the 17th century established a Roman Catholic francophone population in New France ...