Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko William Lyon Mackenzie, he Kaiwhakatika, te koromatua tuatahi o Toronto, he tūranga kotahi tau noa iho tana noho, ka hinga ki a Tory Robert Baldwin Sullivan i te tau 1835. I whakakapia a Sullivan e Dr. Thomas David Morrison i te tau 1836. Ko tētahi atu Tory, ko George Gurnett, i kōwhiria i te tau 1837. I taua tau, ko Toronto te wāhi o ngā kaupapa matua o te
Ko te Whakatupuranga o Upper Canada. I te mutunga ka arahi a Mackenzie i te whakaekenga ki te Tavern o Montgomery, ka tiimata te Upper Canada Rebellion. Kaore i whai hua nga whakaeke, i rite ki nga kaihauturu o Ingarangi, ana ka haere nga hoia a Kanata i Toronto ki te puni tutu i Montgomery's Tavern ka whakamararatia nga whakakeke. I rere a Mackenzie me ētahi atu Kaiwhakatika ki Te Hononga o Amerika, i te wā i whakaekehia ai ētahi kaiārahi whakakeke, pērā i a Hamuera Lount rāua ko Pita Matthews. Ka pōtitia e Toronto he rangatiratanga o ngā mēra Tory, Conservative rānei, ā, tae noa ki te tekau tau 1850 ka noho anō tētahi mema o te Reform hei mēra. I muri tata mai i te tutu, i whakangaromia a Toronto e tana ahi nui tuatahi i te tau 1849. Ko te ahi tetahi o nga ahi nui e rua i puta i te taone nui, me te mea i puta i te tau 1904.