Tag: modernization

  • Historic Architect Edmund Burke Shaped Look Of Today’s Toronto

    Historic Architect Edmund Burke Shaped Look Of Today’s Toronto

    Since 1793, when the Town of York, the second capital of Upper Canada, was founded, Toronto has been an important economic and political hub. The first governor of the Town of York, John Graves Simcoe, believed that this town would become a powerful industrial metropolis, and when Toronto became one of the top financial centres…