Bonne fête Toronto!

On March 6th, Toronto celebrated it's 182nd birthday. We are lucky enough to call it home. Since our class has been learning about mapping and geography in Social Studies, we celebrated with a few Grade 6 artists by making a painting with hand prints.

We also discussed some fun, weird, and interesting facts about Toronto. 

• Toronto is Canada’s largest city with a population now of almost 5.6 million. 
• Toronto is the 5th largest city in North America.
• The city of Toronto started off as York, the capital of Upper Canada in 1793. York was renamed Toronto in 1834.
• Toronto is the world’s fourth most livable city.
• Toronto has more than 8000 diverse restaurants. 
• The St. Lawrence Market is one of Canada’s great markets. The selection of food is outstanding. 
• There are over 1600 named parks in Toronto.
• There are about 10 million trees in Toronto.
• The longest street is Lawrence Avenue East (other than Yonge Street.)
• Toronto Island lies on top of a 900-acre floating sandbag! Centre Island is also the place Babe Ruth hit his first professional home-run!  It serves as an urban oasis for residents and tourists alike and is the largest car-free network in North America.
• According to Guinness World Records, PATH is the world's largest underground walkway with a total of 29km of space. PATH connects 50 office towers, 5 subway stations, six hotels and one railway terminal. 
• And much much more!