# History of Toronto

> History of Toronto is an information site about the history of Toronto, Canada, from Indigenous settlement to the present: historic buildings and churches, neighbourhoods, institutions, records for genealogists, and fact pages about the city. Pages cite their sources, give the date they were last verified, and mark where sources disagree.

## Start here
- [Toronto history overview](https://historyoftoronto.ca/history/overview): timeline from Indigenous villages to the 1998 amalgamation
- [Toronto history section guide](https://historyoftoronto.ca/history): the pages of the history section
- [Historic sites](https://historyoftoronto.ca/history/historic-sites): Fort York, Casa Loma, the Distillery District and more
- [Historic buildings](https://historyoftoronto.ca/history/buildings) and [historic churches](https://historyoftoronto.ca/history/churches)
- [Biographical sketches from the 1885 County of York history](https://historyoftoronto.ca/history/bios)

## Guides
- [Toronto facts: location, population, geography, weather](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-facts)
- [Visiting Toronto](https://historyoftoronto.ca/visiting-toronto)
- [Living in Toronto](https://historyoftoronto.ca/living-in-toronto)
- [Getting around Toronto](https://historyoftoronto.ca/getting-around-toronto)
- [Culture, sports and language](https://historyoftoronto.ca/culture-and-sports)
- [All articles and guides](https://historyoftoronto.ca/articles)

## People and tools
- [People of Toronto history](https://historyoftoronto.ca/people): 24 biographies with sources
- [Research tools](https://historyoftoronto.ca/research-tools): surname search of the 1885 book, timeline, map, buildings index, records checklist, population chart, street names, census finder, age and relationship calculators, walking tour builder, on this day, quiz
- [Open data: CSV and JSON datasets under CC BY 4.0](https://historyoftoronto.ca/open-data)
- [Toronto history questions and answers](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-history-faq)
- [Toronto in numbers](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-in-numbers)
- [Glossary of Toronto history terms](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-history-glossary)
- [Timeline of Toronto history](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-timeline)
- [Updates and corrections log](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-history-updates)
- [Editors](https://historyoftoronto.ca/editors)
- [Sources and bibliography](https://historyoftoronto.ca/sources)
- [Editorial policy](https://historyoftoronto.ca/editorial-policy)

## Data pages and hubs
- [Timeline of Toronto history](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-timeline): 198 dated events from 1687 to 2025, each linked to an article
- [Street names](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-street-names): the origin of 146 Toronto street names, each with its source
- [Historic buildings index](https://historyoftoronto.ca/historic-buildings-index): 52 historic buildings and sites
- [Map of historic places](https://historyoftoronto.ca/historic-places-map): 54 places with coordinates
- [Surname search](https://historyoftoronto.ca/surname-search): 899 biographical sketches from the 1885 history of Toronto and York County
- [Toronto quiz](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-quiz): 30 questions with sourced answers
- [Lost and rebuilt Toronto](https://historyoftoronto.ca/lost-toronto-buildings): buildings that were demolished or destroyed, quoted from the articles
- [Toronto in the 1790s](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-in-the-1790s): 10 dated events
- [Toronto in the 1830s](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-in-the-1830s): 9 dated events
- [Toronto in the 1840s](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-in-the-1840s): 11 dated events
- [Toronto in the 1850s](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-in-the-1850s): 12 dated events
- [Toronto in the 1870s](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-in-the-1870s): 9 dated events
- [Toronto in the 1880s](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-in-the-1880s): 9 dated events
- [Toronto in the 1910s](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-in-the-1910s): 11 dated events
- [Toronto in the 1920s](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-in-the-1920s): 11 dated events
- [Toronto in the 1950s](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-in-the-1950s): 10 dated events
- [Toronto in the 1970s](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-in-the-1970s): 9 dated events
- [Toronto in the 1990s](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-in-the-1990s): 13 dated events
- [Toronto in the 2020s](https://historyoftoronto.ca/toronto-in-the-2020s): 12 dated events

## Research links
- [Genealogy links](https://historyoftoronto.ca/genlinks)
- [History links](https://historyoftoronto.ca/links)

## Full text
- [Full text of key pages](https://historyoftoronto.ca/llms-full.txt)