The proper term (one which anyone outside Canada has no need to know) is “Torontonian”.
As for being sheltered, since it’s founding in the 1790s there is enough forest within the city limits, including most of the downtown core, that the default option with wildlife is to co-exist to the point where I was in my early twenties before discovering that in certain parts of the city, wild deer not only thrive, they breed at a sustainable rate that is adequate for a viable gene pool and low enough for habitat that they can stay in place without any outside intervention in any way.
I am 60 years old now, well-travelled by any layman’s standard (France, Eastern Canada, most American states west of the Mississippi, Bahamas), but I have only lived outside the city once; that was five months in a City 6 1/2 hours north of Toronto that began when I was 17 and ended by the time I was 18.
To sum it up, my ultimate retirement plan is to live within a 3-hour drive from Toronto, enough to satisfy me to work at my own choosing while enjoying all the benefits of both city life and country life well into my mid-90s.
“Torontonian”
Thanks. I knew somebody could tell me. That’s a real awkward tongue-twister!
We just did a 1,700 mile loop through Washington State, through the North Cascades Highway, to Vancouver then to Whistler for a couple days. North to Pemberton then east through the mountains to Kamloops and Revelstoke. Stayed in Revelstoke a few days. We were both very surprised to find such world-class skiing in the small town of Revy. From there to the Icefields Parkway and north to Jasper for a few days. We ended by going back down the Icefields Parkway to Lake Louise and Banff. Finally back home (North Idaho) through Radium Hot Springs.
Western Canada is like the Western USA — lots of wide open, sparsely populated spaces. It was very delightful.
My Mom’s family landed in Ontario in the 1860s, homesteaded the Saskatchewan prairie for 20 years, moved to Red Deer, AB for a while and finally settled in Creston, BC where they ran a fruit ranch / farm for 50 years. That was my great grandparents. Lots of family on my Mom’s side still in BC but not so much in SK or AB.