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From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: ZIP code -> city name blues(repost)
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Date: Wed, 14-Mar-84 12:45:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 14 12:45:34 1984
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You think you have problems.  Here, we have the Municipality of Metropolitan
Toronto, sort of a federation of smaller municipalities.  When it was formed
(1954) there were 13 constituent municipalities:
	East York       Mimico*         Toronto
	Etobicoke       New Toronto*    Weston*
	Forest Hill*    North York      York
	Leaside*        Scarborough
	Long Branch*    Swansea*
In 1966 there was a reorganization and the 7 smallest members (marked *) were
absorbed into the larger ones, whose names did not change, and that is the way
it is now.  So what are our postal addresses?  These:
	Don Mills       Rexdale         Weston
	Downsview       Scarborough     Willowdale
	Islington       Toronto
You will observe that 5 names refer to places that have not existed since 1954,
and 1 other to a place that ceased existing in 1966.  2 out of 8 exist.

Naturally, the boundaries of the postal address Toronto do not coincide with
those of the real Toronto-- but at least the postal area includes the entire
city.  (And the post office does recognize some/all of the actual muncipality
names, especially since most of them decided to become cities recently.)

Mark Brader