FUN FACT: York was renamed “Toronto”, reviving the old Injun-derived name tkaronto (“where there are trees standing in the water”), on March 6, 1834, just 5 months before slavery was officially abolished throughout the empire (August 1, 1834, when the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 came into force).
So Toronto wasn't even named Toronto before the law to abolish slavery was actually passed.
FUN FACT: York was renamed “Toronto”, reviving the old Injun-derived name tkaronto (“where there are trees standing in the water”), on March 6, 1834, just 5 months before slavery was officially abolished throughout the empire (August 1, 1834, when the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 came into force).
So Toronto wasn't even named Toronto before the law to abolish slavery was actually passed.