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1) Yonge Street (pronounced Young) is the longest street in the world at 1,896 km
2) Toronto is as far south as the French Riviera (but sadly not as warm all year)
3) More people live in Toronto than in all the four Atlantic Provinces combined (Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick)
4) Toronto has the fifth largest government in Canada
5) Toronto is one of the most racially diverse cities in the world:
Population of 2.48 million in the City and roughly 5 million in the Greater Toronto Area
Over 100 languages and dialects are spoken here
43 per cent of Toronto's population (1,051,125 people) reported themselves as being part of a visible minority, up from 37 per cent (882,330) in 1996.
The top four visible minority groups in Toronto were:
Chinese at 259,710 or 10.6 per cent of our population
South Asian at 253,920 or 10.3 per cent
Black at 204,075 or 8.3 per cent
Filipino at 86,460 or 3.5 per cent
49 per cent of Toronto's population was born outside of Canada, up from 48 per cent in 1996
New immigrants to Toronto since 1991 number 516,635, representing 21 per cent of our population.
Fully one in five Toronto residents arrived in this country during the 1990s
One in four children between 5 and 16 in the City of Toronto are new immigrants having arrived between 1991 and 2001
While the City of Toronto had 48.7 per cent of the GTA's population in 2001, we were home to:
57.8 per cent of all GTA immigrants (1,214,625)
64.4 per cent of all new immigrants that arrived in the GTA during the 1990s (516,635)
60.4 per cent of all GTA residents identified as belonging to a visible minority (1,051,125)
Toronto has 79 ethnic publications
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"My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars."
- Old Man Luedecke
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