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People have lived in the Toronto region on the north shore of Lake Ontario for almost 11,000 years since the first indigenous people moved there from the south after the ice age. Direct contact with Europeans occurred in the 17th century, and the French built small trading posts there during the 18th, but the birth of the urban community did not occur until the British regime. In 1787, the Toronto area was purchased from the Mississaugas; then in 1793, John Graves Simcoe, lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, established a military post and civilian town to improve the colony's defenses during a period of threatened American invasion. He named his settlement 'York' and moved the provincial capital here from the vulnerable border village of Niagara.
Industrialization, beginning modestly in the mid-19th century, expanded greatly after Confederation, and contributed significantly to shaping the city's environment and prosperity. By 1901, the industrial, commercial, financial, and institutional centre had a population of 208,000, which rose to 667,500 by 1941.
