![]() ![]() The Toronto metropolitan area is at the core of a much larger region of urbanization that is referred to as the Golden Horseshoe. In recent decades, Toronto has been among the fastest-growing larger metropolitan areas in the high income world. By 2011, the metropolitan area had grown to a population of 5.5 million (Figure 3). The area of the former city of Toronto (abolished in 1998 as a part of a six jurisdiction amalgamation, see Note on the Toronto Amalgamation) has added little more than 100,000 residents while the suburban areas have added approximately 4.7 million. Since that time, nearly all of the growth in the Toronto metropolitan area has been in the suburbs (Figure 2). About 80% of these (630,000) lived in the former city of Toronto. In 1931, the metropolitan area had little more than 800,000 residents. Metropolitan, Suburban and Core Population Growth: 1931-2011 Many of these businesses, and some of their employees, decamped to Toronto. Toronto's ascendancy was in large part precipitated by the move by Québec, in which Montréal is the largest city, to assert the primacy of the French language even though much of the Montréal business community was Anglophone. This shift is exceptional within the high-income world over the past half century. ![]() Since the 1971 census, when the two Metropolitan areas were nearly identical size, Toronto has added approximately 3 million people, while Montréal has added approximately 1,000,000 (Figure 1). Toronto displaced Montréal is Canada's largest city during the 1960s. However, this is a relatively recent development. Toronto is the largest city (metropolitan area) in Canada and its principal commercial center. ![]()
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