York, Upper Canada

York [ jɔɹk ] was the original name of the current city of Toronto in the Canadian province of Ontario.

The Wyandot called the place where the city originated York, " Tarantua ", which means as much as meeting place, where they held meetings. In the 17th century it was the fur hunters, who quite successfully used the meeting place for their business until the British Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe had built a fort out of the economic hub. He believed York was the appropriate location for the capital of Upper Canada, which was still in Newark at that time, now Niagara -on-the -Lake.

The town of York on the north shore of Lake Ontario was the capital of Upper Canada in 1796.

On 6 March 1834 the city was renamed in Toronto. At this time York had 9250 inhabitants.