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According to the Toronto Real Estate Baord, there were 3,007 sales reported to mid-October, on par with the 3,012 sales reported during the same period in 2005.

Some regions of the city saw significant increases, due mainly to changes in market demand for certain types of properties. The hottest spots were Northeast Scarborough (up 24%), Rexdale in the west end (up 59%), and the downtown core (up 43%.) These sales increases were driven by condominium sales.

In Thornhill, north of the city, sales increase by 48% driven mostly by detached homes.

The average home price rose to $353,677, up six per cent over the
$335,208 recorded to the middle of September, and 3% higher than the $341,865 recorded during the first part of October last year.

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The current population of Prince Edward Island is approximately 138,500, of which about 32,250 live in Charlettetown, the capital city of the province. The second largest city is Summerside with a population of 14,654 (2001).

The island was named after Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent (1767-1820), the father of Queen Victoria.

The History Of The Rosedale Neighbourhood In Toronto - by Rob Parker
The wealthiest neighbourhood in Toronto came into being in 1824, when William Botsford Jarvis bought a portion of a 200 acre land grant made to Captain George Playter for his role in supporting King George in the American Revolution. Jarvis was the sheriff of the home district, and was a staunch supporter of the crown, continuing the family tradition passed on by his father, who like Playter had fought for the Crown during the American Revolution.

Jarvis moved to the property with his wife Mary. After their house was completed, Mary named the residence Rosedale because of the many roses that grew in the area. The couple would have five children, and Rosedale itself was one of the centres of concentration for William Lyon MacKenzie’s rebellion. MacKenzie and Jarvis had much ill will towards each other, and MacKenzie had stated one of the purposes of his march was to burn Rosedale to the ground. This was averted when a colonel in the ill fated rebellion said he would not fight women and children. Jarvis would later hang this colonel.

Legend has it that the famously meandering streets of Rosedale were patterned after the tracks Mary Jarvis made on her many rides throughout the property. Mary Jarvis died in 1852, and William lived on over a decade after her death until 1864. Although their names are synonymous with the history of the community, theirs was actually the second house built in the area, the first being built on the Don River in 1818...

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The French were the first to settle the island making it part of the colony of Acadia from about 1630 to the early 1700's. At that time it was called Ile Saint-Jean. The entire Acadian region, including PEI, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia was transferred back and forth between Britain and France until Britain finally wrested control of most of the region by around 1730.

Continued skirmishing between the English and French in the region made the English naturally suspicious of the loyalty of the Roman Catholic Acadian settlers. The Acadians signed an oath in 1730 not to take up arms against the English on the condition that they not be forced to fight against the French. In other words they were recognized as officially neutral between the two overlords.

But this was not good enough for the English who, by 1755, with the Seven Years War heating up, decided the only way to settle the Acadian problem was to deport them and replace them with English Protestants.

This led to the Acadian Expulsion or "Exiles" in the 1750's. About 6,000 Acadians were exiled from Port Royal, Grand Pre, and Beaubassin in 1755. Over 3,000 more were exiled after the fall of Louisbourg in 1758. When the war ended in 1763, the Exile was technically over. Acadians from the region had their property confiscated and were exiled in 1755 to various American Colonies and to England. Those who were exiled in 1758 were sent to France and several French colonies, including Louisiana. Eventually, by about 1790, about 3,000 of the dispersed Acadians ended up in what had become a "New Acadia" in Louisiana.

Roughly one thousand Acadians lived on the Prince Edward Island at this time. However, many fled to the island from mainland Nova Scotia during the British-ordered expulsion of Acadians in 1755. The second expulsion took place in 1758 when many of the Acadian inhabitants of the island were forcibly deported.

The new British colony of "St. John's Island", also known as the "Island of St. John" was settled by "adventurous Victorian families looking for elegance on the sea. Prince Edward Island became a fashionable retreat in the 18th century for British nobility"[1].

In 1798, Great Britain changed the colony's name from St. John's Island to Prince Edward Island to distinguish it from similar names in the Atlantic, such as the cities of Saint John and St. John's.

The Charlottetown area was first the site of an Acadian settlement called Port La Joye. Shortly after the Seven Years War in 1763 the area was chosen to be the capital of Queen's County and shortly thereafter became the province's capital. Almost half of the Island's population lives within the Charlottetown area. Charlottetown was first incorporated as a town in 1855 and designated as a city in 1885. It is also the county seat of Queens County.

In September 1864, Prince Edward Island hosted the Charlottetown Conference, which was the first meeting in the process leading to the Articles of Confederation and the creation of Canada in 1867. Prince Edward Island itself did not find the terms of union favourable and balked at joining in 1867, choosing to remain part of the nation of Great Britain and Ireland. In the late 1860s the colony examined various options including the possibility of becoming a discrete dominion unto itself, as well as entertaining delegations from the United States who were interested in Prince Edward Island joining the United States of America.

In the early 1870s the colony began construction of a railway and frustrated by Great Britain's Colonial Office, began negotiations with the United States. But in 1873, Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, negotiated for Prince Edward Island to join Canada. The federal government of Canada assumed the colony's railway debts and agreed to finance a buy-out of the last of the colony's absentee landlords to free the island of leasehold tenure and from any new migrants entering the island.

As a result Prince Edward Island entered Confederation on July 1, 1873, six years after the first "confederation" of Canadian provinces.

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The Indian populations of much of this part of North America were devestated by diseases brought to the new world by European explorers and settlers. Their reduced numbers led to further feuding between tribes as each attempted to restore their numbers by capturing enemies.

This was the state of affairs in the southern Ontario region for much of the 1600s as Iroquois battled with Hurons. By 1688 however the Iroguois, who had moved into the Toronto area, were in turn displaced by the French.

The first European to reach the Toronto area is thought to have been Etienne Brule, who had served under Samuel de Champlain. Tradition has it that Brule "discovered" the Toronto site in 1615, but other scholars question whether Brule ever reached Lake Ontario at Toronto.

The first verifiable evidence of European presence in the area came with Roman Catholic missionaries working with the local natives in the 1660s and 1670s. Seasonal traders also regularly passed through the area by this time, the most famous of whom was the explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle.

By 1720 the French had established a trading post on the Humber River at the base of what was known as the "Toronto Passage." And in 1750-51, the French built Fort Rouille to protect French interests in the area against the British.

Fort Rouille, or Fort Toronto as it was more commonly known, was used as a trading post until 1759. At that time the French were locked in a protracted war with the British to decide which imperial power would have the upper hand in dividing up world wide colonial interests. The French were forced to retreat from much of inland North America in 1759. Before retreating from Fort Rouille they and burned the fort to the ground rather than having it fall into English hands.

This marked the end of French control of the regions we now know as Toronto and Ontario, and the beginning of English domination, which was formalized in 1763 with the Treaty of Paris.

During the following decades the fate of Toronto was largely decided by events taking place south of the great lakes in the American Colonies. In the late 1770s and throughout the 1780s much of southern Ontario was settled by United Empire Loyalists who were forced to flee from the newly independent American authorities. And, along with British settlers, missionaries, and governing elite the population and culture of the Toronto region slowly developed and grew.

The threat from an openly antagonistic United States was foremost on the minds of most residents of the British colonies to the north, and as a result, Toronto and the rest of southern Ontario experienced only slow growth for a number of decades.

In 1793 the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe, moved the capital of the province from Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake) to Toronto and renamed the town York. At that time it was still a very small town consisting of only about 50 families. In 1813 one of the most decisive events of the War of 1812 with the U.S. saw York captured by the Americans and many of its major buildings burned to the ground.

But in spite of the damage done to York, the War of 1812-14 represented the end of hostilities between the U.S. and British North America. As a result the Toronto and southern Ontario regions experienced accelerated immigration and much more rapid development throughout the 1800s.

In 1834 the name of York was changed back to Toronto, and in 1841 Toronto became the capital of the newly minted Canada West portion of the United Province of Canada.

In 1867 when the Canadian confederation was reformed and expanded, Toronto carried on as the capital city of the new provice of Ontario.

Toronto's population grew rapidly in the late 1800s, with the population going from 30,000 in 1851 to 181,000 in 1891. This rapid population growth was almost completely the result of immigration. The 1891 population figure also included recent annexations of many smaller, outlying towns such as Parkdale, Brockton Village, West Toronto, East Toronto, and many others.

Most of the immigration in the early and mid 1800s was from Britain and Ireland. As a result Toronto became a thoroughly English-Scottish-Irish town and remained that way until immigration patterns changed in the late 1800s.

Agriculture is the major industry in PEI, as it has since colonial times. Potatoes are now the leading cash crop - accounting for one-third of provincial farm income. The province currently produces approximately 1300 million kg of potatoes annually, roughly a third of Canada's total potato production. PEI is also a major producer of seed potatoes, exporting to more than 20 countries around the world.

Prince Edward Island's transportation network traditionally revolved around its seaports (Charlottetown, Summerside, Borden, Georgetown, and Souris), all of which were linked to its railway system, and airports (Charlottetown and Summerside) for communication with mainland North America.

The railway system was abandoned by CN in 1989 in favour of an agreement with the federal government to improve major highways. Until 1997, the province was linked by two passenger-vehicle ferry services to the mainland - one service provided by Marine Atlantic operated year-round between Borden-Cape Tormentine, the other provided by Northumberland Ferries Limited operates seasonally between Wood Islands-Caribou. A third ferry service provided by CTMA operates seasonally between Souris-Cap-aux-Meules, connecting with Quebec's Magdalen Islands.

On June 1, 1997, the Confederation Bridge opened, connecting the island to the Nova Scotia mainland, and replacing the Marine Atlantic ferry service. Since then, the Confederation Bridge's assured transportation link to the mainland has altered the province's tourism and agricultural and fisheries export economies.

Tourism is a major part of the PEI economy with historic sites, parks, camping, golfing, festivals and special events across the island during the tourist season.

Nov 9, 2006 -Toronto resale housing activity remained strong for the full month of October with 6,876 homes being sold during the month, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board.

Hottest areas of the city were the Beach neighbourhood where overall sales were up 45% over the same period last year. Semi-detached homes were the big movers.

The average price of a home in the GTA in October was up to $356,423. This was 2% higher than September and up 4% from October 2005.

Musical venues in Toronto include the Toronto Centre for the Arts in North York; Roy Thomson Hall, home to Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO); and Massey Hall. The National Ballet of Canada is based in Toronto and performs at the Hummingbird Centre and formerly at the Walter Carsen Centre. It and the Opera will move to the Four Seasons Centre in 2006.

As Canada's largest city and the main centre of its recording industry, Toronto is also home to many Canadian pop, rock, and hip hop artists. This includes both musicians native to Toronto and those who have moved to Toronto from other towns and cities. The live music scene in Toronto is centred primarily in the Queen Street West area, part of what is known as the Entertainment District, although not all of Toronto's music venues are in this neighbourhood. More established acts play at venues such as Lee's Palace, The Opera House, The Horseshoe Tavern, The Mod Club, The Phoenix Concert Theatre, The Guvernment, and Kool Haus (formerly known as the Warehouse). Major concert tours by stars are usually booked into larger venues such as Air Canada Centre, Hummingbird Centre, the Rogers Centre and the Molson Amphitheatre at Ontario Place."

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Toronto represents a multicultural mosaic. The 2001 Canadian census indicates that more than 40% of Toronto's population belong to a visible minority group. In March 2005, Statistics Canada projected that the visible minority proportion will comprise a majority in both Toronto and Vancouver by 2017. Toronto's minority poulation grows by approximately 1% per year, largely because of immigration. Large ethnic communities in Toronto include those from Italy*, Jamaica*, India*, China*, Sri Lanka*, Portugal*, Poland*, Ghana, Korea, Philippines, Trinidad, Somalia, Ecuador, Vietnam, Russia, and Guyana. *Largest groups..."

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And of course there is Anne of Green Gables, the fictional character made famous by L.M. Montgomery. The Anne books have spawned an entire industry centred around the village of Cavendish on the north shore of the island, and the original inspiration for the Charlettetown Festival. Anne of Green Gables - The Musical, is Canada's longest running and certainly most beloved musical, a highlight of the Festival since its inception in 1965.

Prince Edward Island has also become a mecca for golfers with a number of world class golf courses and resorts including The Links at Crowbush Cove, Brudenell River, Dundarave, and a number of others.

For detailed visitor information see the website of the PEI tourism department.