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Norman D. Wilson (engineer)
Norman Douglas Wilson (1884–1967) was a Toronto-based transportation engineer who designed the Toronto subway and RT, Toronto subway, and created a design of a subway for Winnipeg in the late 1950s. See also * Wilson Avenue – a street in Toronto named for him * Wilson (TTC) - a subway station on the above-mentioned street * Wilson Heights, Toronto - a neighbourhood near the above-mentioned street * Wilson Heights (electoral district) - named for the above mention neighbourhood References * 1884 births 1967 deaths 20th-century Canadian engineers People from Old Toronto {{Canada-engineer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
