TORONTO 4K | TIMELAPSE

History of Toronto With a history that spans more than 10,000 years, Toronto is one of Canada’s centers of social, cultural, business, and financial life. People moved to the area to hunt for animals after the last glacial period when melting glaciers resulted in the formation of large lakes. First Inhabitants The first inhabitants of today’s Toronto moved in small groups and engaged in gathering, fishing, and hunting of mastodons, mammoths, caribou, and other animals. The area was mostly covered by boreal forest and tundra and was the home of small and big game. According to archeologists, the area of present-day Toronto was inhabited by a number of indigenous groups, including the Huron, Mississauga, Seneca, and Iroquois. The Cayuga and Neutral people also lived in the area. In fact, according to some sources, the name of the city stands for a meeting place in the language of the Wyandot or Huron people. Others claim that the name comes from the word tkaronto of the Mohawk people which mean