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Old Posted Aug 24, 2012, 5:42 PM
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Originally Posted by new.slang View Post
That goes for any North Shore towns. It makes me sad we don't really have anything like them in Greater Toronto.....
the big reason for that can be explained by the data below:

metro chicago population 1930: ~4,365,000

metro toronto population 1931: ~810,000



metro toronto was simply a much, much smaller place than chicagoland back in the days of early 20th century suburban development.
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