Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Throughout its history, Toronto has been a city divided into many communities and neighbourhoods. As the city has grown, new neighbourhoods have been created out of once rural farmland. Over time, the neighbourhoods within existing areas have also been altered and rearranged. The variety and breadth of neighbourhoods within the city has led to the moniker "the city of neighbourhood. Before incorporation as a city in 1834, Toronto was known as York. For about two decades from its inception in 1793, most residents settled in an area bounded by present-day Jarvis and Parliament streets, south of Queen Street East, and north of Front Street, which at the time was at the waterfront.