Talk:Peel County, Ontario
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Toronto Gore not named after Francis Gore
editThe previous version of this article claimed that Toronto Gore township was named after Francis Gore, a former Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada. This is not the case. The word "gore" in the name of the township refers to the shape of the township; a "gore" is a triangular piece of land. (See the third definition of "gore" on wiktionary here: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gore . This etymology is confirmed by this 1880 map of Peel county http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/peel.htm which gives the name of the township as "Gore of Toronto" – this makes sense if it's a "gore" in the geographical sense, but not if the township were named after Francis Gore. Sonitus (talk) 18:57, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
Toronto Township not named after Toronto (city)
editIn 1806 when the Township of Toronto was surveyed and named, the neighbouring town, capital of Upper Canada, had been called York since its founding some 13 years previously.
At the time, the name Toronto referred to the Toronto Purchase, which in turn referred to the lands around the Lake Ontario end of the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail. The Township of Toronto was the first municipality to bear the name. When the town of York was incorporated as a city in 1834, it belatedly decided to go back to the Native-inspired name. Thus were there two neighbouring Torontos for the next 134 years, until 1968 when the township of Toronto became the town of Mississauga.