Metropolitan Toronto - Services

Services

The following is a list of services that were funded and provided by the Metro government:

  • Economic Development Division
  • Metro Toronto Welfare and Social Services (Welfare, homes for the aged, children's services)
  • Metro Toronto Police (since renamed Toronto Police Service)
  • Toronto Transit Commission
  • Metro Toronto Parks and Property (Regional parks including the Toronto Islands, waterfront park and valley park systems)
  • Metro Toronto Planning (Regional planning)
  • Metro Toronto Treasury
  • Metro Toronto Clerk
  • Metro Toronto Legal
  • Metro Toronto Personnel
  • Metro Toronto Roads and Traffic
  • Metro Toronto Ambulance (renamed Toronto Ambulance Service (TAS) then latter Toronto EMS)
  • Metro Toronto Works (Sewage treatment, water filtration and distribution)
  • solid waste disposal (but not collection, which was a lower-tier responsibility)
  • Social services, hostels, public housing, children's services: Metro Toronto Community Services, Metro Toronto Hostel Services Division, and Metro Toronto Housing Authority (now Toronto Community Housing Corporation)
  • The Metro Toronto Library (now Toronto Public Library), which directly operated the Metro Toronto Reference Library and provided coordination between the municipal public libraries within Metro
  • Metro Toronto Audit

In addition, the following agencies were Metro government agencies:

  • Metro Toronto Zoo (now Toronto Zoo)
  • Sony Centre for the Arts (formerly the O'Keefe Centre and the Hummingbird Centre)
  • Exhibition Place

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