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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