TSX Venture Exchange

previously known as the Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX)

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In 1999 Vancouver and Alberta Stock Exchanges merged the form what is know as "Canadian Venture Exchange" (CDNX) handling
trading in junior equities. The TSX Venture Exchange is a stock exchange in Canada. In 2001 the TSX (Toronto Stock exchange) Group purchased it and renamed it.

Canadian markets have become a magnet for investment from around the world.

Through TSX Group’s equity and energy markets, investors and issuers discovered:

Fast, low-cost and liquid trading

A range of innovative trading products More oil and gas issuers than any exchange group in the world

The single largest source in the world of equity financing for mining issuers

The second largest exchange group in the world for technology companies

The S&P/TSX Composite Index that has risen 34 per cent since the end of 1999, compared to a decline of 15 per cent on the S&P 500

And all backed by a strong economy

Canada is the only G7 country in surplus for eight years running – and a country rich in natural resources.

In 1852 a group of Toronto businessmen met on July 26, 1852 with the intention to form an "Association of Brokers". Although they may have traded in shares that were available at that time, no official records remain of the groups' transactions.
In 1861 on October 25th, 24 men gathered at The Masonic Hall. A resolution was passed that day and Toronto Stock Exchange was born. The cost of membership was $5.00. In its early years the Toronto Stock Exchange trading volume was very modest, amounting to two or three transactions daily. Trading hours were limited to daily half-hour sessions and the trading list consisted of 18.

In 1999 through a realignment plan, Toronto Stock Exchange became Canada’s sole exchange for the trading of senior equities. The Montreal Exchange assumed
responsibility for the trading of derivatives and the Vancouver and Alberta Stock Exchanges merged to form Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX) handling
trading in junior equities. The Canadian Dealing Network, Winnipeg Stock Exchange, and equities portion of the Montreal Exchange later merged with CDNX. Toronto Stock Exchange won Royal Assent from the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario to convert the Exchange into a for-profit organization.
Toronto Stock Exchange set yearly trading records of 29.3 billion shares, valued
at $529 billion. In 2000 Toronto Stock Exchange monthly trading topped $100 billion for the first time ever in March 2000. The demutualization process is completed when The Toronto Stock Exchange Inc. became a for-profit company, on April 3. Daily trading value topped $15 billion for the first time ever in May 2000. Toronto Stock Exchange opened an office in Montreal.

In 2001 toronto Stock Exchange completed overhaul of its trading platform. The Toronto Stock Exchange completes the acquisition of the Canadian Venture Exchange. CDNX renamed TSX Venture Exchange in 2002. TSX Venture Exchange stock list migrated to the Toronto Stock Exchange trading platform in December 2001. S&P/CDNX Index was launched on December 10, 2001. The Index was renamed S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index in May 2002.
2002 Standard and Poor’s agreed to take over management of the Toronto Stock Exchange 300 Composite Index on May 1st. It is renamed the S&P/TSX Composite Index. The Canadian Foundation for Investor Education and Capital Markets Institute at the University of Toronto hosted a Symposium on National Securities Regulation. TSX Markets, a business of TSX Group, implemented new trading features including POSIT and Iceberg Orders. On April 8, 2002, The Toronto Stock Exchange Inc. re-branded its organization and adopted the acronym TSX. Canadian Venture Exchange is renamed TSX Venture Exchange and TSE/CDNX Markets is re-branded to TSX Markets. TSX Group CEO Barbara Stymiest officially opened a new office in Montreal.

From its pre-eminent domestic base, TSX Group's reach extends internationally, providing the global financial community with access to Canada's equity capital and energy markets. Each TSX Group operation is connected to and supports the activities of the others; all are focused on providing exceptional customer service from our offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal.

Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) - As Canada's senior equities market, TSX provides an efficient, liquid market for a broad cross-section of Canadian issuers. TSX assists about 1,500 issuers through services designed to increase retail and institutional investors.

TSX Venture Exchange - Serving the public venture equity market, TSX Venture Exchange provides access to capital for companies at the early stages of their growth while offering investors a well-regulated market for making venture investments.

TSX Markets - TSX Markets facilitates trading on TSX and TSX Venture and provides innovative trading products to increase investor participation, particularly across North America.

Natural Gas Exchange (NGX) - As a leading North American energy exchange, Natural Gas Exchange connects the buyers and sellers of natural gas and electricity contracts, enabling them to manage the risks inherent in energy trading, and provides the associated clearing and settlement services.

TSX Datalinx - To meet growing global demand for financial and capital markets information, data is packaged and sold with more than 118,000 subscriptions worldwide via TSX Datalinx, connecting the Canadian capital markets to investors at home and abroad.

TSX Technologies - Fundamental to these operations is TSX Technologies, which powers the operations of TSX Group through state-of-the-art trading technology.

Listing, trading and market data - supported by trading technology. These are the key elements of TSX Group

Throughout our more than 150-year history, TSX Group has been a pioneer of new products.

Innovation: from TSX Group:

Introduced the exchange world to computer trading in 1977. Twenty years later, Toronto Stock Exchange was the first major North American exchange to go completely electronic.
Launched the first exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the world in March 1990. In 2005, we listed the world's first inter-listed ETF.
Was the first exchange group in North America to use decimalized trading in 1996.
Developed the market for income trusts that have since become one of the hottest parts of our market. Income trusts, such as REITs, royalty trusts and business trusts, are an effective way for entities with predictable cash flow to raise capital.
Became the first North American stock exchange group to become publicly listed in 2002.

Toronto Office
P.O. Box 450
3rd Floor, 130 King Street W.
Toronto, ON
M5X 1J2
Canada

Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET

The TSX Group also owns the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). The TSX deals mostly with senior equities, while the TSX Venture Exchange deals with public venture equities.

Trivia

Toronto is a Canadian city located on the north western shore of Lake Ontario, and is the provincial capital of Ontario. Toronto is a global city, exerting significant regional, national, and international influence, and is one of the world's most multicultural and ethnically diverse cities. It is Canada's financial centre and economic engine, as well as one of the country's most important cultural, art, and health sciences centres.

A population of 2,481,494, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fifth most populous in North America, after Mexico City, New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. The city is the centre of the Greater Toronto Area, a regional conurbation, a densely populated region in Ontario which is home to over eight million people, roughly one quarter of the Canadian population. The population of the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) is estimated at 5,304,100 in 2005.

Toronto was voted the world's most livable city in 1994 by The Economist. It was displaced in 2005 by Vancouver, but is still ranked among the top ten.

The name Toronto has a rich history, and is quite distinct from the history of the eponymous Canadian city. Originally, the term referred to The Narrows, a channel of water through which Lake Simcoe discharges into Lake Couchiching. This narrows was styled tkaronto by the Mohawk, meaning where there are trees standing in water.

By 1680, Lake Simcoe appeared as Lac de Taronto on a map created by French official Abbé Claude Bernou; by 1686, Passage de Taronto referred to a canoe route tracking what is now the Humber River. The Humber River became known as Rivière Taronto as route became more popular with French explorers, and by the 1720s a fort to the east of the mouth of the river was named Fort Toronto.

The change of spelling from Taronto to Toronto is thought to originate on a 1695 map by Italian cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli.

Another explanation of why the town got its name is that a man called Ronto, a close relation of Tonto from the lone Ranger, was in a canoe and list his paddle. He wanted a lift show so a boat towed him from the place where he was stuck. The name of this place is now called TowRonto.

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Pronunciation
The stress is on the second syllable. Locals often pronounce the city's name "Toronno" (most often, 'I'm gonna go to Toronno') or "Tronno", "Tronto", "Toranna", "Taranna", "Chronno" or "Chranna" or even "Terawhnna" . This is a reflection of the varieties of Canadian pronunciation and does not represent a unique pronunciation for the city name itself. Even the same local speaker may pronounce the name differently depending on the subject of the conversation in which it is used.

Even for Canadian speakers it is never outright incorrect to pronounce distinctly the second t in Toronto. Pronouncing it "Tor-on-toe" (with stress on the second syllable) in casual speech is usually seen as a sign of someone who is not a native of the city. Canadian francophones pronounce it, "To-ron-to", in three syllables, with the french nasal on on the second syllable, and the accent on the third syllable.

Nicknames
Toronto has garnered various nicknames throughout its history, including:

T.O. – an acrostic for Toronto, Ontario, or a false acrostic for Toronto; pronounced "Tee-Oh"

Hogtown – referring to its importance in the 19th century as a site for growing, trading, and marketing livestock, especially in The Junction
Toronto the Good – from its history as a bastion of 19th century Victorian morality (sometimes called Toronto the Bad now in reverse as a derogatory nickname)
Methodist Rome – an analogy implicating the city as a centre for Canadian methodism, akin to Rome's role in Catholicism
City of Churches
Hollywood North – due to the many TV and movie productions in the city (although this title is also given to Vancouver)
Queen City – a reference most commonly used by francophone Quebecers ("La Ville-Reine")
Muddy York – derived from Toronto's previous name, York, and the weather's effect on its once-largely unpaved streets
The 416 – 416 is the original telephone area code for much of the city (the other area code in Toronto is 647; 905 is used in the surrounding GTA exurbs)
The Economic Engine of Canada
New York run by the Swiss – a take on Peter Ustinov's oft-quoted reference of the city to reporter John Bentley Mays in The Globe and Mail on 1 August 1987: "Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss." When reminded of this later at a reception in June 1992, he responded (again cited in The Globe), "I've learned it's really run by the Canadians."

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T-Zero - a play on the T.O. nickname used by anti-Torontonians (often Montrealers)
T-dot or T.dot – short for "T-dot, O-dot", a hip-hop slang nickname
The Big Smoke – a nickname it shares with many other cities
The Centre of the Universe - A derogatory term used outside Toronto.

Torry is another short name used.

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Oronto Bay is an arm of Lake Superior

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