Toronto
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Toronto was a Canadian city located beside Lake Ontario. (PROSE: Christmas in Toronto [+]Loading...["Christmas in Toronto (short story)"]) Anji Kapoor thought that Toronto was "a bit like New York City designed by the Swiss". (PROSE: Trading Futures [+]Loading...["Trading Futures (novel)"]) It contained many skyscrapers, made of steel and glass. (PROSE: Rose and the Snow Window [+]Loading...["Rose and the Snow Window (short story)"])
The Ninth Doctor supported the Toronto Maple Leafs. (PROSE: Rose and the Snow Window [+]Loading...["Rose and the Snow Window (short story)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 2006, standpipes and water rationing were used in Toronto, as water shortages were common due to environmental damage. (PROSE: Iceberg [+]Loading...["Iceberg (novel)"])
In approximately the 2000s,[nb 1] a map showing the location of Toronto appeared on a screen at UNIT HQ in Geneva. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])
Iris Wildthyme and Panda visited Toronto in 2010. (PROSE: Panda on Ice [+]Loading...["Panda on Ice (short story)"])
In the early 21st century, Baskerville predicted that a nuclear device would accidentally detonate in Toronto, destroying the city, but the Eighth Doctor prevented this. (PROSE: Trading Futures [+]Loading...["Trading Futures (novel)"])
In 2040, the Seventh Doctor helped stop a terrorist group from blowing up Pickering power station in Toronto. (PROSE: The Nuclear Option [+]Loading...["The Nuclear Option (short story)"])
During the mid to late 21st century, Toronto was a primary hub of the T-Mat network. (TV: The Seeds of Death [+]Loading...["The Seeds of Death (TV story)"])
The colony world Toronto was presumably named after the city. (PROSE: Ten Little Aliens [+]Loading...["Ten Little Aliens (novel)"])
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On Germania V, the British Royal Family fled to Canada after the Nazis invaded the United Kingdom. In the 1950s, Queen Margaret ruled the British Empire from a sandstone palace in Toronto's Queen's Park. (PROSE: Warlords of Utopia [+]Loading...["Warlords of Utopia (novel)"])
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Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman was born in Toronto, and later died there.
Standby art director Katie MacGregor and actor Brian Law were also born there.
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- ↑ Both Planet of the Dead and The End of Time are referred to in dialogue as taking place after the end of Journey's End, which is set in either 2008, according to TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS, or six weeks after the middle of May 2009, circa June, according to PROSE: Beautiful Chaos. However, the year of The End of Time is unspecified, as is whether or not it is intended to be the Christmas immediately after Journey's End.
