Metro Toronto Council
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| Nickname(s): Metro, Metro Toronto | |||
 Location of Metropolitan Toronto in the province of Ontario |
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 Canada
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 Ontario
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| Incorporated | 1953 from Toronto, York Township, Scarborough Township and Etobicoke Township | ||
| Dissolved | 1998 into  Toronto
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| • Type | Council–manager government | ||
| • Body | Metropolitan Toronto Council | ||
| • Chairman | Alan Tonks (last) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 630 km2 (240 sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) | ||
The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was a senior level of municipal government in the Toronto, Ontario, Canada area from 1954 to 1998. It was created out of old town Toronto, York Township, Scarborough Township and Etobicoke Township. It was commonly referred to as "Metro Toronto" or "Metro" to avoid confusion with the original city of Toronto, which was its administrative headquarters.
Passage of the 1997 City of Toronto Act caused the 1998 amalgamation of Metro Toronto and its constituents into the present day City of Toronto. The boundaries of present-day Toronto are the same as those of Metropolitan Toronto upon its dissolution: Lake Ontario to the south, Etobicoke Creek and highway 427 to the west, Steeles Avenue to the north, and the Rouge River to the east.
Prior to the formation of Metro, the municipalities surrounding the central City of Toronto were all independent towns and villages. All were members of either York Township, Scarborough Township or Etobicoke Township. After 1912, the city no longer annexed suburbs from York Township. At times the suburbs asked to be annexed into Toronto, but the city chose not to do so.
In 1924, Ontario cabinet minister George S. Henry, was the first to propose a 'metropolitan district' with its own council from the city and the county to administer shared services. He wrote a draft bill, but the government chose not to act on it.
The Great Depression saw almost all of the towns and villages of the County go insolvent. When that happened they were, financially, taken over by the province. In 1933, Henry, now the premier, appointed a formal inquiry into forming a metropolitan district. A proposal was made for Toronto to provide several of its services to the suburbs as well. The inquiry died with the defeat of Henry in 1934.
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