[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links: first Toronto, Keesmaat, Vaughan, parks, Dupont, Jarvis

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• Katie Daubs at the Toronto Star writes about a noteworthy discovery by geography Rick Laprairie, of the first recorded use of the word "Toronto" on a French map from 1678, referring to the body of water now known as Lake Simcoe.


• Edward Keenan considers the potential of the vision of Jennifer Keesmaat for Toronto, over at the Toronto Star.


• There are significant increases in transit use in Vaughan near the new subway stations, but traffic at many remains low. CBC reports.


• Urban Toronto notes that the City of Toronto has settled on designs for two parks on the waterfront.


• Urban Toronto notes that excavation has begun for the first big new condo developments on Dupont Street.


• blogTO shares a history of Jarvis Street, a beautiful street lost to construction and widening in the 1940s.