Toronto Gore (also the Gore of Toronto) is a former incorporated and now geographic

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. It is today split between

Mississauga Mississauga ( ), historically known as Toronto Township, is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is situated on the shores of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, adjoining the western border of Toronto. With a popul ...

and

Brampton Brampton ( or ) is a city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario. Brampton is a city in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and is a List of municipalities in Ontario#Lower-tier municipalities, lower-tier municipalit ...

History

Toronto Gore came into existence as a township in when it was separated from

Chinguacousy Township Chinguacousy Township is a former municipality and present-day geographic township in the Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario, Canada. In 1973, when Peel County became the Regional Municipality of Peel, the township was split in half, with t ...

. In 1867 it became part of Peel County when that county was split from York County. A small wedge-shaped tract of land, Toronto Gore was located in the east of the county, on the border with York County (and later,

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).''A History of Peel County'', Brampton: The Corporation of the County of Peel, 1967. It was south of Albion Township, east of Chinguacousy Township (the boundaries being located along

Castlemore Castlemore is suburban area that is located 14 km northeast of downtown Brampton in Ontario, Canada. It consists of multiple neighbourhoods of Brampton northwest of Claireville. The area has been in active development since the early 1990s, ...

and

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Roads respectively in present-day Brampton), and northeast of Toronto Township (now Mississauga). In 1952, the southern portion of the township (south of the present

Steeles Avenue Steeles Avenue is an east–west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of Regional Municipality of York, York Region in Ontario, Canada. It stretches across the western and central Greater Toronto Area from ...

) was annexed to Toronto Township, and in 1974 the remainder was amalgamated into the City of Brampton. Several historical villages were once located within Toronto Gore, including Claireville, Ebenezer, Castlemore, Wildfield and Coleraine. However, only small remnants like churches and cemeteries of these former villages exist. Wildfield remains the only community to maintain its unique identity while the rest have been completely overtaken by suburban developments. The name lives on in the name of the provincial and federal

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Bramalea—Gore—Malton Bramalea—Gore—Malton (formerly known as Brampton—Malton and Bramalea—Gore—Malton—Springdale) was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada. In 2015, it was dissolved into ...

as well as two local roads " Goreway Drive" and " The Gore Road", and the Brampton neighbourhood of Gore Meadows. Toronto-Gore, along with Goreway Drive, might have been named for Sir

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. A more likely derivation is from the shape of the tract or its origin: in surveying, a

gore Gore may refer to: Places Australia * Gore, Queensland * Gore Creek (New South Wales) * Gore Island (Queensland) Canada * Gore, Nova Scotia, a rural community * Gore, Quebec, a township municipality * Gore Bay, Ontario, a township on Manitouli ...

is a triangular piece of land in British usage and a small strip or tract of land lying between larger divisions in US usage.

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{{Brampton, Ontario History of Brampton Geography of the Regional Municipality of Peel Geographic townships in Ontario

History

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