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 Bryces Souvenir Guide to Toronto, 
 
 TORONTO OF TODAY, 
 
 WITH A 
 
 GLANCE AT THE PAST. 
 
 By G. mercer ADAM. 
 
 IT is not quite a hundred years since the 
 first Lieutenant-Governor of the now 
 great and thriving Province of Ontario came 
 to the scene of his early administrative duties, 
 which was I hen ahuost wholly a wilderness. 
 Fifty years earlier, and before Canada passed 
 forever from the dominion of France, Toronto 
 was known only as a French stockade and 
 trading post, situate near the mouth of the 
 Humber river, then Nature's highway of 
 communication for Indian tranper or warrior 
 to the Upper Lakes and the Far West. The 
 name, Toronto (which means '* "x place of 
 meeting "), was, however, in early days ap- 
 plied somewhat generally to the region lying 
 about Lake Simcoe, to the Humber river it- 
 self, as " the Pass at Toronto," meaning the 
 water*"ay connecting Lake Ontario with 
 Lakes Simcoe and Huron, the central chan- 
 nel of communication to the West, and 
 therefore the likely ** meeting- place" of 
 
 French and Indian voyageursand of roaming 
 bands of the native tribes that peopled or 
 frequented the district. But after the lapse 
 of years it was found convenient to limit the 
 area covered by the elastic term, and the name 
 Toronto came to be applied exclusively to 
 what its citizens now proudly designate '* the 
 Queen City of the West." 
 
 FO'JNDING OF YORK (NOW TORONTO). 
 
 With the coming, in 1 794, of Governor Sim- 
 coe, Toronto — or York, as it was at the time 
 called — was ushered into existence, and the 
 clearing then made was the beginning of the 
 infant capital. Under this sturdy soldier- 
 administrator of the old regime^ the town 
 rose at once, in name at least, to the dignity 
 of the metropolis of Upper Canada, though 
 at this early period both Kingston and New- 
 ark (Niagara) had better claims to the hon- 
 our. Its earliest buildings were two large 
 
 Entered, according to Act of the Parliament 0'' Canada, in the year One Thoasand Eight Hundred and 
 Eighty-Seven, by GR/f<ME Merger Adam, in .he Office of the Minister of Agriculture. 
 
TORONTO OF TO-DAY, WITH 
 
 halls for the accommodation of the Provin- 
 cial Legislature (which first met at Niagara) 
 and the Courts of Justice, a vice-regal resi- 
 dence on the banks of the Don, and a fort 
 and barracks for His Majesty's troops, erected 
 at the mouth of the harbour. Almost con- 
 currently with the erection of these buildings 
 an arterial line of communication was cut by 
 the soldiery for thirty miles through the vir- 
 gin woods to the Holland River and the 
 waterways to the North and West, while a 
 post-road, traversing ^he Province, was also 
 he-vn out of the forest, giving access to the 
 heart of the Peninsula and the old Freach 
 settlements and English m^'^'cary posts at the 
 Detroit and beyond. 
 
 The human interest connected wi»h the site 
 of Toronto, at the period we have referred 
 to, may be said exclusively to centre in the 
 families of two Mississaga Indians whose sol- 
 itary wigwams were pitched on the wooded 
 shores of the harbour and lake. It is not a 
 little curious at the present day to note that 
 from these Indians, or from the representa- 
 tives of the tribe, the intruding white man 
 acquired the area on which the city is now 
 built for the munificent sum of ten shillings, 
 plus a little ** fire water," (even the pream- 
 ble of the Scott Act had not yet been 
 evolved I) sundry trinkets dear to the abori- 
 ginal heart, and an occasional issue of that 
 conventional Indian habiliment, a gay new 
 blank Jt. Nor were the pictorial and natural 
 aspects of the scene originally less primitive. 
 The whole region was in a state of nature, 
 for the forests clothed the land as with a 
 garment, and the reign of solitude was 
 
 supreme, save for the occasional cry of mus< 
 quash or loon, as they disported themselves 
 in the waters of the bay, or the soft fall of 
 an Indian paddle. An early writer makes 
 the remark that in a circumference of 150 
 miles the Indians are the only neighbours 
 of York. 
 
 EARLY SITE OF THE CITY. 
 
 To the eye of the shrewd first Governor, 
 however, the fine geographical position, the 
 capacious and well-sheltered harbour, and 
 the ready means of reaching the north and 
 west by *' the Pass at Toronto," strongly re- 
 commended the site of Toronto as a desirable 
 one for a future great city and the im- 
 mediate, if not permanent, Provincial capital. 
 What has since been achieved has amply jus- 
 tified Governor Simcoe's choice. At first, 
 the growth of the town was slow, though it 
 was aided by incoming bands of U.E. Loyal* 
 ists, who, at the close of the American Revo- 
 lution, gladly forfeited home and country to 
 live on, even in a wilderness, under the Old 
 Flag. But slow as was the growth, even 
 what there was was interfered with and set 
 back by the invading American forces in the 
 War of 18 1 2, which on two occasions burpt 
 and sncked the town. Despite this, however, 
 there was progress, for the solid qualities of 
 the English race which had founded it tri- 
 umphed over difficulties, and by the time the 
 town was incorporated (viz., in 1834) the 
 city of Toronto had a population close upon 
 
 IO,CXX). 
 
 GROWTH OF THE CITY. 
 
 In 1850 the population was under 30,- 
 000 ; the value of assessablo property was 
 
A GLANCE AT THE PAST. 
 
 nearly fifteen millions ; and the imports 
 were one million. Ten years later, the pop- 
 ulation was under 50,000 ; the assessed 
 vrlue of real property within the municipality 
 was almost twenty millions ; while the im- 
 ports had risen to nearly three millions. 
 To-day (1887) the population, including the 
 suburbs, is close upon 140,000 ; the value of 
 taxable property is almost seventy-five mill- 
 ions ; and the city's annual imports about 
 twenty millions ! The strides in population, 
 in imports, and in the value of ratable prop- 
 erty are matched by Toronto's growth and 
 development in other directions, and by the 
 status to which the city has risen as the great 
 mart and distributing centre of industry and 
 commerce. The motive power of the city's 
 wonderful advancement, of course, is money, 
 aided by the ability, xhe energy, and the 
 shrewdness of its men of business, and by the 
 brawn and muscle of the toilers behind 
 them. Its financial resources maybe judged 
 from the fact that there are fourteen banias 
 (exclusive of branches and Savings Banks), 
 and as many more loan societies, besides a 
 host of building and investment societies ; 
 insurance, trust and deposit companies, the 
 aggregate capital of which cannot be far 
 short of a hundred millions ! 
 
 The intellectual and moral growth of 
 Toronto, represented by the universities, col- 
 leges, schools and institutes, and by the 
 churches of all denominations, which latter 
 have given it tne appellation of ' ' the city of 
 churches," is no less gratifying. According 
 to a recent census, there are within the 
 municipal bounds of Toronto, 26 Episcopal 
 
 churches, 2 reformed Episcopal, 22 Methodist 
 churches, 18 Presbyterian, 11 Baptist, 9 
 Catholic, I Gatholic Apostolic, 7 Congrega- 
 tional, 4 of the denomination of the " Chris* 
 tian " church, i Unitarian, i German Luther- 
 an, I Jewish Synagogue, and some six 
 miscellaneous places of worship — in all 1 10 
 churches, exclusive of mission houses, and 
 the headquarters and branch barracks of the 
 Salvation Army. Did space permit, we 
 might give equally gratifying statistics as to 
 the number and capacity of the public and 
 secondary schools, of the various colleges and 
 seminaries of learning, and of the extent and 
 development of the local press with its 
 myriad daily, weekly, and monthly issues. 
 In these respects, as regards the religious 
 welfare, the education, and the enlightenment 
 of the people, as well as with respect to the 
 position the city holds as a trading and 
 manufacturing centre, it will be seen how far 
 the Toronto of to-day has advanced from the 
 embryo capital of the Simcoe regime^ or even 
 from the "Muddy Little York " of its me- 
 dieval history. 
 
 ATTRACTIONS AS A PLACE OF RESIDENCE. 
 
 On other accounts, however, may the 
 citizens of Toronto felicitate themselves on 
 the city's growth and development. To it, 
 we know, the rich Province of Ontario, with 
 not a little of the p:reat North -West, is 
 tributary. It has become a vast commercial 
 emporium, a great railway centre, the liter- 
 ary " hub " of the Dominion, the Mecca of 
 tourists, an Episcopal and Arch- Episcopal 
 See and the ecclesiastical headquarters of 
 
TORONTO OF TO-DAY, WITH 
 
 many denominations, the seat of the law 
 courts, the Provincial Legislature, the uni- 
 versities, colleges and great schools of 
 learning. But, in addition to all these, it has 
 also become a most attractive place of resi- 
 dence. The shaded streets, the parks, the 
 cool breezes from the lake, with a pull to the 
 Humber, or to the many readily accessible 
 resorts on the water front extending east 
 and west of the ciiy, yachting on the lake, 
 an afternoon trip to Niagara, Grimsby, 
 Hamilton, or St. Catharines, or a run up 
 over Sunday to the Muskoka lakes, and the 
 Georgian Bay, make a summer residence in 
 the Provincial metropolis a joy and delight. 
 Nor are the means of passing the winter en- 
 joyably and instructively — with access to 
 libraries, museums, and art -galleries, besides 
 the attractions of lectures, concerts, operas, 
 etc., — less pleasing or abundant. But 
 Toronto has attractions to others than tour- 
 ists and strangers : to our own people in 
 different parts of the Dominion, and particu- 
 larly to the youth of both sexes in our 
 country towns, — not only at Fair times, but 
 at all seasons of the year, — a visit to the 
 Provincial metropolis, in its stimulus to the 
 intellectual life, is becoming more and more 
 an education. Besides its varied modern 
 life and its commercial and intellectual 
 activities, Toronto is not lacking in an his- 
 toric past, and, as antiquity goes in the New 
 World, it has not a little to feed and to grat- 
 ify the historic memory. In this utilitarian 
 age this may not count for much, except with 
 the antiquary and the literary and historical 
 student. Such we can imagine, however. 
 
 wending their way to the site of the Old 
 Fort, just west of the Queen's Wharf, where, 
 in i8t3, over two hundred of an invading 
 American force wee, with their leader, 
 blown into the air. 
 
 THE city's pioneers AND MODERN 
 WORKERS. 
 
 Nor will the restful and picturesque ceme- 
 teries that slope down to the classic Don fail 
 to draw the historical student who has vividly 
 in his mind the stirring events and the burn- 
 ing questions of an earlier time. Here, 
 where sleep the city's honoured dead, may be 
 seen the granite column which filial affection 
 has reared to the loving memory of that ar- 
 dent patriot, Robert Baldwin. Near by are • 
 the last resting-places of statesmen, chief 
 justices, chancellors, judges, the chiefs of 
 commerce and industry, and numberless now 
 forgotten men, whose names were once 
 *' household words " in the early days of 
 Upper Canada. Nor will the University, 
 the colleges, the churches, the museums, the 
 art rooms, the public libraries, with the 
 ofBces of those great agencies of public 
 opinion, the city dailies, be omitted by the 
 visitor to the now cosmopolitan city. On 
 all sides will the intelligent observer, as he 
 makes the tour of the rapidly-growing capi- 
 tal, find material to interest and doubtless to 
 instruct him. Nor can we imagine him failing 
 to pay his respects to the many distinguished 
 citizens among the judiciary and the heads of 
 colleges in Toronto, or to the large circle who 
 as politicians, litteratures^ journalists, clergy^ 
 men, educationists, or men of commerce, are 
 
A GLANCE AT THE PAST. 
 
 doing the country's work, and in their sphere 
 are creditably aiding to build up our young 
 but progressive nation. 
 
 THE CITY AND HOW TO SEE IT. 
 
 The visitor to Toronto, whether he ar- 
 rives by boat at one of the wharves, or by 
 rail, at the Union station, will hardly fail to 
 be impressed by the extent of the traffic 
 that will instantly meet his eyes on landing 
 and on making his way to one or other of the 
 hotels, or to the various lines of street rail- 
 way which branch off from the neighbourhood 
 of the Esplanade to all parts of the city. 
 (Consult map and chart of the tram-car routes, 
 at the end of this guide.) The city, it will 
 be found, covers an area some five miles in 
 breadth {i.e., parallel with the lake) by 
 nearly three miles in depth {i.e., N. and S., 
 or running back from the water front). It 
 lies flat, with a rising inclination towards the 
 northern limits. The streets, which are well 
 paved and lighted, are neatly laid out, regular- 
 ly built,, and cross each other, almost without 
 deviation, at right angles. It is computed 
 that there are i8o miles of streets within the 
 limits of the city. The chief streets devoted 
 to retail business are King and Queen, run- 
 ning parallel with the bay and a few blocks 
 north of it, and Yonge Street, cleaving the 
 city in twain and extending to the northern 
 limits of the county of York. The area of 
 the busitiess portion of the city occupied by 
 the large wholesale houses, the banks, finan- 
 cial institutions, loan and insurance com- 
 panies, the government and municipal offices. 
 
 etc., may be indicated as that between 
 
 Front and the Esplanade and Adelaide Street, 
 
 and l)etween Bay Street and the Market. The 
 
 residential part of the city lies chiefly to the 
 
 north and the west of the business section, 
 
 I and is well set off and ornamented by neat 
 
 I villas and rows of detached or semi-detjched 
 
 houses, with boulevards, lawns and fine shade 
 
 i trees. The best way to see the city, its 
 
 : principal buildings and places of interest, the 
 
 '; tourist will find, is to take a carriage (which 
 
 ' can be hired for one dollar an hour) and make 
 
 I two tours, starting, say, from the intersection 
 
 of Yonge and Front Streets — one embracing 
 
 all the sights to the east and north, the other 
 
 all that is important to the west and north. 
 
 Presuming that the visitor to the city will 
 
 take our advice, the following itinerary and 
 
 brief notes of the objects and places of irter- 
 
 est to be met with are supplied : — 
 
 PLACES OF INTEREST. 
 
 From our starting point — crossing the Es- 
 planade, in the grip of the railways, and 
 leaving behind us the throng and bustle of 
 the railway stations and the wharves, the 
 visitor will find at the intersection of Yonge 
 and Front Streets two fine buildings, which 
 will not fail to arrest his attention. These 
 are the Custom House, and the new building 
 erected for the Toronto agency of the Bank 
 of Montreal. 
 
 The Custom House. — This fine building 
 combines elegance and grace with massive- 
 ness and substantiality, typical of the solid 
 character of Toronto's commerce. The Cus- 
 tom House, with the examining warehouse 
 
TORONTO OF TO-DAY, WITH 
 
 in rear, are indicative of the new architectur- 
 al era which we have reached in Toronto, 
 and are fine examples of artistic designing; in 
 the style of the Italian Renaissance. The 
 sculptured faces and figures and the other fine 
 work in stone cutting on the building reveal 
 exceptional art taste. The "Long Room," 
 where the entries are made, is well worth a 
 visit. The Customs business done at this 
 port rates the city the second port of entry in 
 the Dominion and marks it the great com- 
 mercial emporium of the Province. The 
 annual value of the imports is not far short of 
 twenty millions. There is a staff employed 
 of nearly seventy clerks, including landing- 
 waiters, surveyors and examining officers. 
 
 Bank of Montreal.— The exterior and 
 interior beauty of the building recently erec- 
 ted for the first of our banking corporations 
 in Canada is a liiatter of just pride to the 
 citizens of Toronto. The structure, which is 
 but one storey in height, replaces a building 
 which has long been identified with this sub- 
 stantial institution. The corner, on which it 
 stands, with its trees, its chattering birds, and 
 enclosed patch of grass, has a sort of Thread- 
 needle street air about it ; and the reminis- 
 cence oi London is more striking as one walks 
 inside the dome-covered building and views 
 the spacious, richly-gilt, octagonal room, with 
 its metal-screened banking sections, its circu- 
 lar counter, its hordes of money, and throng 
 of merchants and other customers going and 
 coming. The building is of Ohio stone, near- 
 ly square in shape, and the style is that of the 
 French Renaissance. On the two street fac- 
 ings are some finely-carved columns, with em- 
 blematic designs below the- caps, supporting 
 a a . stone cornice and pediment, above 
 which again is a cut stone screen with a carved 
 balustrade. The capital of the bank is twelve 
 millions ; its Toronto manager is Mr. C. 
 Brough. (See illustration.) 
 
 From this centre radiate streets given up 
 to commerce, whose massive warehouses may 
 be seen on all sides, each business firm seem- 
 
 ing lo vie with one another in domicilii^ it- 
 self in elegant and commodious premises, 
 with the best facilities for handling and dis- 
 playing goods and for comfortably doing 
 business. At the north-east corner is the 
 American Hotel, and a block and a half 
 westward is the far-famed hostelry, "The 
 Queen's." Just beyond the latter, on the 
 Esplanade, is the Union Station, the pro- 
 vincial metropolitan terminus of the two 
 great railway corporations of Canada, the 
 Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific 
 R.R. Companies. A little further west- 
 ward is the Northern and North-Western 
 R. R. station ; and half way thither, on the 
 block to the north, stand the present time- 
 scarred buildings, — pending the erection in 
 the Queen's Park of a more fit and imposing 
 structure, — devoted to the uses of the Par- 
 liament of the Province and the De- 
 partmental bureaux. Proceeding northward 
 on Yonge Street, we come at the intersection 
 of Wellington upon the Bank of British 
 North America, and the office of the Traders* 
 Bank ; east and west of these are the head- 
 quarters of the financial corporations, — the 
 Federal, Standard, Ontario, Toronto, and 
 Imperial Banks, the local branches of the 
 Merchants' Bank, and two Canadian and 
 American mercantile agencies, together with 
 the offices, surrounded by congeries of wires, 
 of the Great North-Western and the Cana- 
 dian Pacific Telegraph Companies. Pursu- 
 ing our way still northward, we pass the 
 Canadian Express offices, the present head 
 office, — about to be removed to a new and 
 enlarged site on King Street, — of the Cana- 
 dian Bank of Commerce, and finally reach 
 ihe city's most central point, the intersection 
 of King and Yonge Streets, at the south- 
 west corner of which stands the Dominion 
 Bank. Here the dense traffic and throng of 
 vehicles will not permit of more than a mo- 
 ment's pause, though the visitor, who is on 
 foot, will no doubt be tempted to turn aside 
 to have a look into the shops or the shop 
 
A GLANCE AT THE PAST. 
 
 windows, the contents of which furnish im- 
 pressive proof of the city's wealth and buying 
 capacity, as well as of the enterprise ano 
 taste of its native manulacturing and import- 
 ing houses. 
 
 Proceeding eastward on King Street (see 
 illustration) we pass the offices of the great 
 organ of Liberalism, The Globe, and many 
 of the finest retail stores in the city, and 
 reach Toronto Street, at the upper end of 
 which is the Post Office, the proximity of 
 which has attracted to the neighbourhood a 
 number of the leading financial and money- 
 lending institutions, insurance companies, 
 and business corporations. 
 
 Post Office : — This handsome building 
 (see illustration), situate on Adelaide, at the 
 head of Toronto Street, is, with the Custom 
 House, the property of the Dominion Gov- 
 ernment, and is one of the most substantial 
 and elegant edifices in the city. It is con- 
 structed of richly wrought Ohio stone, with 
 a finely carved facade^ with the Royal arms 
 oyer the entrance, and from the dome or 
 Mansard roof the Union Jack may generally 
 be seen Hying. Its volume of business ranks 
 it first among the post offices of the Domin- 
 ion ; and with its branches in various sections 
 of the city and its system of pillar boxes and 
 street delivery it abundantly meets the wants 
 of the citizens. It has a staft' of nearly 150 
 employees, including letter sorters and post- 
 men. 
 
 In Toronto Street is the Receiver-Gen- 
 eral's Office, a cut stone building, after 
 the Graeco-Ionic order of architecture ; and 
 alongside is the Masonic Buildings, con- 
 taining a fine hall and the various offices of 
 the Masonic order. In the neighbourhood, 
 also, is the Courti House, and the local Scot- 
 land Yard, the headquarters of the Police 
 Department and the Fire Brigade. Re- 
 gaining King Street, and turning eastward, 
 we come upon St. James's Cathedral. 
 This fine historic edifice rears its noble spire 
 to the heavens from a suitable enclosure at 
 
 the intersection of Kine and Church Streets. 
 It is the third edifice of its name, fire having 
 consumed its early prototypes. The building 
 is in the Gothic style, of the earlv English 
 period, and is built of white brick, dressed 
 with Ohio stone. Its length is about 200 
 feet, the width of transept 95 feet, and the 
 height to the ridge crestings 84 feet. At its 
 entrance is a great towvjr, with fii>e peal ot 
 bells and an illuminated clock ; and from the 
 tower a graceful spire shoots aloft, some 300 
 feet from the ground. It has a grand nave 
 and spacious aisles, with apsidal chancel, 
 underneath which, in a crypt, sleep the first 
 Bishop of Toronto, John Strachan, D.D., 
 and its long-time rector, the beloved Dean 
 Grasett. There arc galleries on the three 
 sides, that on the south being appropriated 
 to the uses of the organist and choir. 
 
 The Public Library, immediately to 
 the north of the Cathedral, at the intersection 
 of Church and Adelaide Streets, is well 
 worth a visit. The nucleus of the institution 
 was the old Toronto Mechanics' Institute, 
 which, on the passing of the Free Library 
 Act, — a bit of intelligent and far-seeing Pro- 
 vincial legislation, — ^became merged into the 
 Free Public Library. It is supported by an 
 annual municipal tax, of $25,000, some por- 
 tion of which is devoted to the maintenance 
 of branches in the northern and western parts 
 of the city. There is a spacious reading- 
 room, abundantly supplied with magazines 
 and newspapers, local and foreign, a well- 
 selected lending library of some 50,000 vol- 
 umes, including a valuable comprehensive 
 reference department, the gift, in the main, 
 of a public-spirited citizen. li is under the 
 supervision of an able and experienced chief 
 librarian, Mr. James Bain, jr., who is assisted 
 by a zealous deputy, and ft corps of intelligent 
 young women. 
 
 A little further southward, on King, is 
 tho St. Lawrence Hall, in rear of which 
 arf the chief markets of the city, the City 
 Hall and corporation offices, the Armoury 
 
8 
 
 TORONTO OF TO-DAY, WITH 
 
 and Dkill Shed of the militia local corps, 
 and the east*end station of the Northern k 
 North-Western R.R. To the east of this, 
 there is little that will interest the sight- 
 seer, unless he has the tastes of an antiquary, 
 for the city has grown north and west of its 
 old time Mayfair, the sight of the primitive 
 Westminster, the first Provincial Parliament 
 Buildings, and the cradling-place of To- 
 ronto. Crossing the Don river, the old 
 eastern limits of the city, there is, however, 
 a pleasant drive to Norway and Scarboro 
 Heights, in the vicinity of which is Woodbine 
 Park, Toronto's race course, and Victoria 
 Park, a lake-sidesummer resort of the citizens. 
 Returning to the Market, the visitor to the 
 city will do well to proceed up Jarvis, the 
 finest residential street in Toronto, on which 
 he will find, in the Baptist Church, at the 
 • corner of Gerrard, one of the most beautiful 
 specimens of church. architecture the city can 
 boast of. Just above, is the Toronto Col- 
 legiate Institute, one of the best of the 
 secondary schools in the Province, with a 
 high record of University honours. If we 
 are cot mistaken, it is, moreover, the oldest 
 educational institution in the city, being one 
 of the original Royal Grammar schools en- 
 dowed by the Crown shortly after the crea- 
 tion of Upper Canada as a Province. It has 
 seven masters, and has accommodation for 
 400 pupils. The Rector is Arch McMurchy, 
 M.A. Occupying a square, some ten acres 
 in extent, flanked by Gerrard, Carleton, and 
 Sherbourne Streets, are the beautiful Horti- 
 cultural Gardens and Pavilion. This 
 sbiine of Flora is owned by a private com- 
 pany but is leased to the Corporation, and is 
 open to the public every day from 6 a.m. till 
 dusk. The j^rounds are laid out with great 
 taste, and with a fine eye for floral adorn- 
 ment. Within the enclosure is a tastefully 
 d4»%ned m«Mie hall, nsed as a concert wad 
 ball room, and occasionally for public Imn- 
 qnett, fioral dMws» and other displays aiE^ 
 entertainments. 
 
 Proceeding northward, eitljer by Jarvis cr 
 by Sherbourne Streets, we come to Bloor 
 street and Rosedale Ravine, (see illustra- 
 tion) across which are thrown two fine 
 bridges, which give access to a beautiful su- 
 burb of Toronto and to delightful drives 
 about the Valley of the Don. In the neigh- 
 bourhood, on the city's side, at the top of 
 Parliament Street, are the old burial sites, 
 the Necropolis and St. James' Cemetery, 
 where sleep, amid the sombre pines that 
 fiank the Don, relieved by blossoming shrubs 
 and flower parterres y *' the rude forefathers 
 of the hamlet "—the old time " Little York," 
 with their offspring of a later generation. 
 
 On the hither fide of the Ravine, a plea- 
 sant drive by hill and dale will conduct one 
 to the Reservoir (see illustration), the 
 great storehouse of the city's water supply, 
 drawn from the lake by powerful pumping 
 engines on the Esplanade. At Deer Park, a 
 little further to the north, is Mount Pleas- 
 ant Cemetery (see illustration), another 
 quiet "city of the dead," picturesquely 
 situated, and bidding fair in time to rival 
 *» Greenwood," " Bethnal Green," or ''P^re 
 la Chaise. " Our drive will take us back by 
 Yonge Street and Yorkville, a once-outlying 
 suburb of Toronto, but now well within its 
 limits. In this section of the city, called 
 North Toronto, there is a station of the 
 Canada Pacific R.R., and to it a line of 
 tram-cars ply every few minutes. 
 
 IHE education department, AND THE 
 
 school system. 
 
 Continuing our drive city-ward, by Yonge 
 Street, we rfiall do well to turn eastward 
 into Gerrard, to reach St. James' Square, on 
 the northern side of which are the College 
 of Pharmacy and an elegant Ptesbyierian 
 Church, and, on the southern side, the Holy 
 Apostolic Church. In the centre of the 
 square, in an attractive enclosure, are The 
 Education Office, !<ormal and Model 
 School Buildings. Here are the head- 
 

A GLANCE AT THE PAST. 
 
 quarters of the educational system of the 
 Province, presided over by the Hon. G. W. 
 Ross, M. P. P., Minister of Education. (See 
 illustration.) These fiLt buildings, the cor- 
 ner stone of which was laid in 185 1, by Lord 
 Elgin, the then Governor-General, have ap- 
 proaches from three streets, the grounds of 
 the south front being tastefully laid out in 
 gay and artistically arranged parterres. The 
 main building has a frontage of 185 feet, 
 with a depth at the flanks of 85 feet. There 
 is a fine Roman- Doricybfa</(?, having for its 
 centre four stone pilasters the full height of 
 the building, with pediment, surmounted by 
 an open Doric cupola. Opposite the main 
 entrance, which is intersected by a corridor, 
 the entire length of the building, is a semi- 
 circular theatre or lecture-room, with busts 
 of notable personages on brackets and pedes- 
 tals round the walls. The lower floor of the 
 front of the building is used as oflices, the 
 Ministers' audience room, and the library. 
 Upstairs is the art gallery and museum, con- 
 taming a large and miscellaneous collection 
 of pictures and statuary, copies of the Old 
 Masters and other famous paintings, with 
 models of Assyrian and Egryptian sculpture. 
 The buildings annexed are used as a Model 
 School for the youth of both sexes, and a 
 Normal School for the professional training 
 of teachers. For nearly forty years, as tL«* 
 writer has elsewhere observed (see *' Pic- 
 turesque Canada " — Toronto section) these 
 buildmgs have been the nursery of the educa- 
 tional system of Ontario, a system originated, 
 and for nearly a quarter of a century ad* 
 ministered, by the late Rev. Dr. Ryerson. 
 This honG:ued founder of our school system, 
 who was designated Chief Superintendent of 
 Education, has an able, zealous and ex- 
 perienced successor in the person of the 
 present head of the department, who is 
 styled Minister of Education. 
 
 In this connection, it will not be amiss to 
 direct the attention of the visitor to Toronto 
 to the many excellent Public Schools 
 
 maintained by the city, with the aid of a 
 government grant. There are nearly twenty 
 of these in various parts of the city, most of 
 them large, commodious and handsome 
 buildings. They are all well equipped, and 
 are conducted by competent head-masters, 
 aided by an efficient staff. The largest of 
 these institutions are Ryerson, Dufferin, 
 Wellesley Street and Victoria Street schools. 
 The head offices of the city schools are on 
 York Street, corner of Richmond, Mr. 
 James Hughes is City School Inspector. 
 
 ST. Michael's and the metropolitan 
 
 CHURCH. 
 
 Continuing our drive, and going south by 
 Bond Street, we pass a fine edifice, in the 
 style of early English Gothic, with a hand- 
 some tower and spire, belonging to the Con- 
 gregational body. The pastor is the Rev. 
 Dr. Wild. A little to the southward is the 
 Loretto Convent, and at the intersection of 
 Shuter Street is St. Michael's (R.C.) 
 Cathedral. (See illustration.) The build- 
 ing, which extends from Bond to Church 
 Street, with an entrance also from Shuter, 
 is massive and lofty. It has a fine tower and 
 spire, and within the sacred edifice are sev- 
 eral valuable paintings and ornate altars. 
 In the spacious grounds adjoining, known as 
 McGill Square, stands one of the largest 
 ecclesiastical edifices on this side of the At* 
 lantic, and perhaps the greatest adornment 
 to Toronto, the METRoroLiTAN (Method- 
 ist) Church. (See illustration.) This fine 
 edifice may be said to owe its origin to the 
 denominational zeal and ability of the Rev. 
 Dr. Morley Punshon, who for some time 
 made Toronto his home, and did much for 
 Methodi'.m in Canada. The building is of 
 fine white brick, with cut stone dressings, 
 and is in the Franco-Gothic style of architec- 
 ture, fourteenth cer*ury period. Its dimen- 
 sions are 214 ft. by 104 ft., with a tower at 
 the south-east angle 16 ft. square and nearly 
 200 ft. in height. There are two other 
 
10 
 
 TORONTO OF TO-DAY, WITH 
 
 towers, 122 ft. in height, at the northern end, 
 at the junction of the main building with the 
 ecture-room. The interior of the building, 
 the general design and harmony of the whole, 
 excite much admiration. Its seating capacity 
 is 2,500. It has the finest organ in the city. 
 Immediately to the south, on Queen Street 
 east, is a building with a fine hall, erected 
 by the Orange Order for the Couaty of York. 
 In the rear, on Richmond Street, is the 
 Canadian Institute, with a library and 
 lecture hail, supported by the savants of the 
 city and those interested in scientific research. 
 On Yonge Street, which we now regain, will 
 be found the new and attractive home, near 
 Gerrard Street, of the Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association ; and branching off a 
 little westward will be found in succession as 
 we descend Yonge Street, the Church of 
 THE Holy Trinity, the gay buildings of 
 the Salvation Army ; on Queen Street, 
 Knox Church and Shaftesbury Hall ; 
 and on Adelaide street, " The Grand " and 
 Toronto Opera Houses. Yonge Street Ar- 
 cade, opposite Temperance Street, will attract 
 attention as we regain the intersection of 
 Yonge and King, and turn westward to com- 
 mence our second drive " to see the sights of 
 the city." 
 
 KING street west. 
 
 This part of King Street bids fair to 
 eclipse the older portion east of Yonge, for, 
 besides the many fine buildings that at pres- 
 ent grace the street and impress the visitor 
 with the wealth and enterprise of the city, 
 nunicrous and costly additions are now being 
 made, which will give the palm to this busi- 
 ness section of Toronto. Here are now in 
 course of erection, the new offices of the 
 Canada Life Association, and the central 
 and finely situated quarters of the Canadian 
 Bank of Commerce. When these build- 
 ings are finished, the architectural display in 
 this neighbourhood will be something to 
 boast of. Already it includes the Dominion 
 
 Bank, the North of Scotland Cham- 
 bers, MoLSONS Bank the office of *• The 
 Telegram " newspaper, and the imposing 
 building, at the north-west corner of Kine 
 and Bay Streets, owned by •' The Mail" 
 Printing and Publishing Co. Close by, on 
 Bay Street, are The National Club, 
 *' The Albany," and to the south some re- 
 markably fine wholesale stores and manufac- 
 turing establishments. On Wellington Street 
 is the Reform Club, and on York, the To- 
 ronto Club, adjoining the Rossin House, 
 Toronto's most commodious, and withal 
 well-managed and well-equipped hotel. At 
 the other corners, at the intersection of King 
 and Yoik, are the Revere House, Palmer 
 House, and Shakespeare Hotel; with 
 the Walker House and St. James Hotel 
 at the foot of York, in proximity to the 
 Union Station. 
 
 ST. Andrew's church. 
 
 Proceeding westward on King, Presbyte- 
 rianism, of the Old Scotch Establishment 
 sort, rears a noble fane, with an Old World 
 Minster front, and a lofty Norman tower, 
 that takes one back in imagination more than 
 half a dozen centuries, save for the absence 
 of the marks left by the tooth of time and 
 an encrusting mass of ivy. At the corner of 
 Simcoe Street stands, in massive outline, St. 
 Andrew's Church, one of the grand orna- 
 ments Ok' the city. The church is built of 
 Georgetown rubble, with Ohio stone facings, 
 varied. In the arches and bands, by red- 
 brown blocks from Queenston. The windows 
 are arched, as are the King| Street entrances, 
 of which there are three, with elaborate carv- 
 ings, the doorways being flanked by finely- 
 polished red granite pillars. The interior is 
 el^ant and roomy. (See illustration.) 
 
 Government House :— The elegant resi- 
 dence (immediately to the west of St. An- 
 drew's Church) of*^ the Lieutenant-Governor 
 of the Province has a charming setting of 
 floral terraces and spacious lawns, with a fine 
 
A GLANCE AT THE FAST. 
 
 It 
 
 fringe, within a new and airy enclosure, of 
 ornamental trees and shrubs. The stvie of 
 archit»»cture is the modern French. Tne in- 
 terior is handsome, uith grand hall and stair- 
 case, spacious reception rooms, and t\ fine 
 ball room and conservatory. To the histori- 
 cal studen*: the many life-size oil portraits of 
 the later Governors of Ontario and of the 
 older regime^ in Upper Canada, are an 
 attraction. 
 
 Upper Canada College :— Charmingly 
 and centrally situated, and occupying the 
 block between Simcoe and John, with a fine 
 approach from King Street, stands the fav- 
 ourite educational institution of the Province, 
 Upp'CR Canada College. As antiquity 
 goes Ji the New World, th3 College may be 
 said to have a venerable foundation ; and 
 with the hallowed flavour of age, it not only 
 keeps but increases its repute as an institu- 
 tion abreast with the times, and one that may 
 favourably compare with the best of the great 
 English Public Schools, such as Eton, Win- 
 chester, Harrow, and Rugby. Founded by 
 Sir John Colborne, in 1829, it had the good 
 fortune to be then well endowed by the 
 Crown ; but recently this has somewhat 
 proved its undoing, for the Legislature, with 
 socialistic fervour, attacked the College as a 
 privileged institution, deprived it of its en- 
 dowment, and decreed its removal 'vith the 
 sale of its time-honoured site. Where its 
 future habitat is to be^ as yet no man 
 knoweth. With an able and zealous 
 principal (George Dickson, M. A.), a large 
 and well-equipped staff, and honours and 
 traditions that uught to count for some- 
 thing, even in an age given over to democ- 
 racy, public opinion and the spirit of its 
 alumni will not suffer, we may be sure, its 
 sun to set. Within the present grounds of 
 the institution are the residences of many 
 of the masters, the College Boarding 
 Houses, with accommodation for 150 boys, 
 a fine gymnasium, armoury, and play- 
 ground. 
 
 old historic residences, and osgoode 
 
 HALL. 
 
 Turning northward, on John, and skirting 
 the College cricket-ground, we pass ** Bev- 
 erley House," the historic home of the late 
 Chief Justice, Sir J<An Beverley Robinson. 
 At the head of the street we see another his> 
 toric residence — the oldest and most attractive 
 in the city — '* The Grange," built by the 
 late Judge Boulton, and still in the possession 
 of a member of the family by marriage, the wife 
 of Professor Goldwin Smith. In the beauti- 
 fully-kept grounds, ample and well-trimmed 
 lawns, with ancient elms placidly looking 
 down upon the scene, "The Grange" recalls a 
 bit of Old England. At the intersection of 
 Queen street, the visitor will do well to turn 
 eastwards towards Osgoode Hall, the high 
 court of Themis. Here, in some six acres of 
 ornamental ground, are the great law courts 
 of the Province, and the Library and Convo- 
 cation Hall of the Law Society of Upper 
 Canada. The place is, with the Provincial 
 University, the Mecca of Toronto sight-seers. 
 Under its roof, as the writer has elsewhere 
 said, the visitor will feel alike the influences 
 of art and the majeity of law ; the portraits of 
 the judges that look down from the walls will 
 impress him with a sense of the power that 
 inheres in learning and dignity. The Hall 
 takes its name from the Hon. Wm. Osgood e» 
 the first Chief Justice of Upper Canada, who 
 was appointed in 1792 ; the Law Society 
 dates its incorporation thirty years later. (See 
 illustration.) 
 
 college avenue. 
 
 Leaving this beautiful building, we shall 
 do well to turn into the Queen Street Col- 
 lege Avenue, where, if the day be one in 
 summer, we shall get a glimpse of sylvan 
 beauty such as rarely meets the eye. For the 
 tourist the city has no sight so charming, 
 unless it be a view of the bay on a still after- 
 noon when the setting sun paves it with 
 flame. A mile of chestnuts and maples flank 
 
12 
 
 TORONTO OF TO-DAY, WITH 
 
 a carriage drive and pathway which, in the 
 vista, open out on the Queen's Park, and the 
 buildings now in course of erection for the 
 Provincial Legislature. Half way up the 
 avenue, on the left, the high pinnacled tower 
 of Erskine (Presbyterian) Church, and 
 the spire of St. Patrick's (R.C.) may be seen 
 through the trees ; adjoining the former is 
 the Chapel of the Reformed Episcopal 
 body. On the right, the spire of Elm St. 
 Methodist Church b.eaks through the foli- 
 age, and close by is the fine front of Grace 
 Church (Episcopal). 
 
 queen's park. 
 
 Presently the intersection of Yonge St. ' 
 Avenue is reached, and we pass into the | 
 verdurous sunlight of the open park, guarded ; 
 at its entrance by a couple of Russian guns, i 
 In a terraced enclosure a fountain is playing, 
 its cool waters breaking in spray on a maze 
 of bright flowers and green <-hrubbery. 
 Queen's Park forms part of the endowment 
 of the University of Toronto ; but some thirty 
 years ago fifty acres of it, together with the 
 two avenues that lead from the city, were 
 given to the corporation on a long lease for 
 the purpose of a public park. Unfortunately, 
 as we venture to think, much of its limited 
 space is being unwisely encroached upon by 
 the new Parliament Buildings. Skirting the 
 latter on the west, the carriage drive discloses 
 a Monument, on an abutment overlooking 
 a ravine, which has a sad tale to tell. It was 
 erected in memory of the Canadian volun- 
 teers who fell at Ridgeway, in June, 1866, in 
 defending the frontier from Fenian raiders. 
 Near by is another monument, the stalwart 
 figure, in bronze, of the Hon. George 
 Brown, a Canadian journalist and states- 
 man, whose sturdy liberalism effected much 
 in his day for the young nation. 
 
 Proceeding northwards, on the right will 
 be seen, the buildings of St. Michael's 
 (R.C.) College and St. Joseph's Convent 
 and, opposite the park exit, the Church of 
 
 I THE Redeemer. Immediately to the west- 
 j ward, within the University grounds, is a 
 striking and unique building. (See illustra- 
 tion.) 
 
 McMas'IER Hall, the denominational 
 college of the Baptist body. It is built of 
 a rich, dark-brown stone, with dressings of 
 black and red brick — a reversal of the usual 
 methods of architects and builders. The 
 college is the gift of the donor whose name it 
 bears, and possesses all appliances for the 
 the theological training of the ministry of the 
 denomination. It is affiliated with Toronto 
 University and College (see illustration), 
 which in retracing our steps and getting again 
 within the park, we shall now take a look at. 
 
 TORONTO university. 
 
 This grand Norman pile is justly considered 
 the flower and glory of Toronto's architecture. 
 It deservedly ranks next, in architectural at- 
 tractiveness, to the Parliament Buildings at 
 Ottawa ; and is said by an English writer to 
 be the only piece of collegiate architecture on 
 the American continent worthy of standing- 
 room in the streets of Oxford. The solidity 
 and beauty of the structure, and the harmony 
 of the whole design, are features that at once 
 arrest attention, while the richly-sculptured 
 doorway at the main entrance and other de- 
 tails of the building, both inside and out, 
 afterwards delight the eye and elicit approv- 
 ing comment. The buildings were erected 
 in 1857-8, at a cost of over half a million of 
 dollars. They have a frontage of three hun- 
 dred feet and a depth of two hundred and 
 fifty feet. A fine view of the city may be 
 had from t^-? tower, which is one hundred 
 and twenty . "et in height. (See illustration.) 
 Across the »pacious lawn in front of the 
 Universit ' U the Ontarjo School of Prac- 
 tical Science, and alongside, the Domin- 
 ion Observatory. In rear, facing McCaul 
 Street, is 
 
 Wycliffe College, the theological hall 
 of the evangelical section of the Anglican 
 
A GLANCE AT THE PAST. 
 
 13 
 
 Church, affiliated with Toronto University. 
 In the neighbourhood also, is the fine audito- 
 rum of the University Young Men's Christian 
 Association. Pursuing our way westward, 
 on College Street, we pass Beverley Street, 
 and its northern extension, St. George Street 
 (two of the finest residential streets in the 
 western section of the city), reaching in a few 
 minutes the great western artery, bpadina 
 Avenue. Close by, with a fine outlook down 
 the Avenue, the gleaming lake in the vista, 
 stands 
 
 KNOX COLLEGE AND NORTH-WEST 
 TORONTO. 
 
 Knox College {see illustration), the de- 
 nominational western headquarters of Pres- 
 byterianisra, and training institution for the 
 ministry of the Presbyterian Church. The col- 
 lege dates its existence from the year 1846, 
 though the present buildings were erected 
 when this tine site was acquired, in 1875. ^t 
 has a partial endowment and a denomination- 
 al grant. At the intersection of College 
 Street and the Avenue, is the Spadina Ave- 
 nue Methodist Church, and to the west- 
 waid the Church of St. Stephen the Proto- 
 Mar^'T, College Street Presbyterian and 
 Baptist Churches. About a mile due north- 
 ward, the foundation stone has recently been 
 laid, and some progress since made, in erect- 
 ing, under the fostering care of Dr. Sweat- 
 man, Anglican Bishop of Toronto, the Ca- 
 the(fral Church of St. Albans. The enter- 
 prise marks the growth of Toronto and the 
 apostolic zeal and faithfulness of the Lord 
 Bishop of the Diocese. The city's ever- 
 brancning-out arms now enclose Sraton 
 Village, a once far-outlying Toronto 
 suburb. 
 
 From the point we have reached in our 
 drive, our cicerone may conduct us over the 
 city's western suburbs, either across the 
 ravine, in rear of Trinity University, which 
 connects College Street with the Dundas 
 Road, or by way of Bathurst Street or Spadina 
 
 avenue to Queen Street, thence west to Park- 
 dale anH Brockton. It may be better to take 
 the latter route ; and, following it, we shall 
 pass in succession St. Andrew's Market, and 
 Denison Avenue Presbytetian Church, the 
 one a little way oft Queen Street to the south, 
 and the other a few steps from the sime street 
 to the north. F irsuing our way westward 
 we come upon the beautiful graunds (see il- 
 lustration) of 
 
 trinity college, BROCKTON, AND 
 
 parkdale. 
 
 Trinity University, a fine ecclesias- 
 tical-looking edifice, founded in 1852 by 
 the first bishop appointed by the Crown 
 for Upper Canada, John Strachan, D.D. 
 The buildini» proper is of white brick, with 
 stone dressings, and has a frontage of 250 
 feet, with deep projecting wings. It stands 
 in a park o^" twenty acres, with a background 
 of romantic beauty ; and, besides numerous 
 class-rooms and dormitories, is equipped with 
 a fine library, convocaMon hall, and tasteful 
 chapel. A little westward, on the opposite 
 side of the street, is an immense high-walled 
 enclosure, within which is the Provincial 
 Lunatic Asylum, and to the south are the 
 Central Prison and the Mercer Re- 
 formatory FOR Women. Still westward, 
 are the Orphans' Home, the Home rcr 
 Incurables, and one or two other refuges 
 for the city's sick and suffering or the erring 
 and the homeless. 
 
 West and north of the Asylum are the fast- 
 growing suburban villages of Parkdale and 
 Brockton ; and where was but lately an al- 
 most unbroken forest of oak and yellow pine 
 is a vast network of streets and avenues, with 
 handsome villas and rows of contiguous 
 streets, creating a new and populous Toronto. 
 The visitor, before retracing his steps, if he 
 wishes to see something of the sylvan beauty 
 of Toronto's immediate surroundings, should 
 continue his drive along the lake shore to the 
 
14 
 
 TORONTO OF TO-DAY, WITH 
 
 Humber River and on, say, to Mimico, or 
 take a lour over hill and dale through High 
 Park, rezenily acquired by the cit^, by the 
 muuificence of one of its public-spirited resi- 
 dents, as a resort for the citizens. 
 
 EXHIBITION BUILDINGS. 
 
 Returning, if it be Fair time, the visitor 
 will do well to drive to Exhibition Park, 
 and take a look at its many attractions and 
 a saunter through the Crystal Palace 
 <see illustration), with its displays of Pro- 
 vincial and Metropolitan manufactures and, 
 in the adjoining buildings, at the array 
 of agricultaral products gathered together 
 annually by the Industrial Exhibition 
 Association. He should not miss either, 
 a run through the *' Zoo," or the view, from 
 the main building, of the Island, the passing 
 traffic of the lake, and the throng of visitors 
 in the spacious grounds, with the fine me- 
 morial pillar, which marks the site of Fort 
 Rouill^, the early French trading-post of To- 
 ronto, before the fair " Queen City of the 
 West " had a habitation, or was more than a 
 beautiful, far-off dream. 
 
 THP end. 
 
 RESORTS IN THE CITY AND 
 VICINITY. 
 
 {Including Public Parks and Drives,) 
 
 Queen's Park, Exhibition Park, Horticul- 
 tural Gardens, The Island, High Park, 
 Riverdale Park, Lome Park, Long Branch, 
 Victoria Park, Woodbine Race Course, To- 
 ronto Cricket Grounds, Rosedale Lacrosse 
 Grounds, The Reservoir, The Necropolis, 
 St. James's and Mount Pleasant Cemeteries ; 
 Jarvis Street, Rosedale, and the Valley of 
 the Don ; Norway, Todmorden, and the 
 Kingston Road ; Lakeshore Road, High 
 Park, and the Humber ; Bathurst Street, 
 Seaton Village, Davenport Road, and St. 
 Gecorge and Beverley Streets ; College 
 Avenue, Queen's Park, Bloor Street, Deer 
 Park and Yonge Street. , 
 
 CATHEDRALS AND CHURCHES. 
 
 St. Tan es's (Episcopal) Cathedral, St. 
 Michael's ,R.C.) Cathedral, St. Albans 
 (Episcopal) Cathedral [in course of erection], 
 St. Andrew's Church, Jnrvis Street Baptist 
 Church, Metropolitan (Methodist) Church, 
 Old St. Andrew's, St. James Square (Presb.) 
 Church, Knox Church, St. George's, Cen- 
 tral Presbyterian, Erskine Church, Caiieton 
 Methodist Church, Church of the Ascension, 
 Church of our Lady of Lourdes (R.C.) 
 Zion Church, 
 
 public buildings and educational 
 
 INSTii'UTIONS. 
 
 Toronto University (Museum and Libra- 
 ry) ; Osgoode Hall (High Courts and Libra- 
 ry) ; Education Office and Normal School 
 (Museum, Art Gallery, and Library) ; Trin- 
 ity (Epis.) University; WyclifFe (Epis.) 
 College ; Knox (Pres.) College ; McMaster 
 (Baptist) Hall; St. Michael's (R.C.) Col- 
 lege ; Upper Canada College ; Collegiate 
 Institute; Exhibition BuiMings (Fort Rouill^ 
 Memorial Pillar) ; Volunteers' Monument 
 (Queen's Park) ; Custom House ; Post Of- 
 fice ; Receiver-General's Office ; jtJ^nk of 
 Montreal ; Parliament Buildings and Libra- 
 ry ; Manning Arcade ; Yonge St. Arcade ; 
 St. Lawrence Hall and Market ; Free Pub- 
 lic Library ; Canadian Institute ; General 
 Hospital; Hall of the College of Physi- 
 cians ; School of Practical Science ; Toronto 
 and Trinity Medical Schools ; La Salle In- 
 stitute ; Loretto Convent ; Mercer Reform- 
 atory ; Central Prison ; House of Provi- 
 dence ; Hospital for' Incurables ; Newsboys' 
 Home ; Children's Home (Island) ^ Boys' 
 Home ; Girls' Home ; Toronto Water 
 Works ; Lunatic Asylum and Grounds ; 
 Royal Canadian V^acht Club ; Toronto Club ; 
 National Club ; Liberal Club ; Government 
 House ; Grand Opera House ; Toronto 
 Opera House ; Shatte^lHiry Hall ; Horticul- 
 tural Pavilion ; Young Men's Christian As- 
 sociation Building ; Toronto Observatory ; 
 Salvation Army Headquarters Barracks. 
 
A GLANCE AT THE PAST 
 
 IS 
 
 The Street Car Routes. 
 
 CAMS MARKED. 
 
 COLOR 
 LIGHT. 
 
 King.. 
 Yonge 
 
 Queen & High Park . . 
 
 Queen & Brockton 
 
 McCaul A College .... 
 
 Spadina Ave. to Seaton 
 
 Village 
 
 Spadina Ave. to Bloor 
 Queen East 
 
 Yonge St. to North 
 
 Toronto 
 
 Church 
 
 Sherboi'.rne 
 
 II 
 
 Winchester 
 
 Blue, 
 Red. 
 
 White .... 
 Green .... 
 Red & Blue 
 
 Yellow .... 
 Red&Green 
 White .... 
 
 Red . 
 Blue, 
 Red 
 
 II 
 
 Parliament 
 
 College Ave. & Carle- 
 ton Street 
 
 Green . . 
 
 White 
 
 White 
 
 8TA RTINQ 
 POINT. 
 
 Don Bridge . . . 
 Market 
 
 Union Station 
 
 41 
 «l 
 II 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 Cross Town . 
 
 ROUTE (a Cent JFaret). 
 
 King St. to Strachan Ave. 
 King, Yonge, to North Toronto 
 
 Station. 
 King, Yonge, Queen, and west to 
 
 Parkdale. 
 King, Yonge, Queen west to 
 
 Dundas St. 
 King, York, Queen, McCaul, 
 
 College. 
 King, Spadina Ave., College, 
 
 Bathurst. 
 King, Spadina Ave. to Bloor. 
 Front, Yonge, Queen to Don 
 
 Bridge. 
 
 Front, Yonge to N. Toronto. 
 
 Front, Church to Bloor St. 
 
 York, King, Sherbourne to Bloor 
 
 Front, Church, Queen, Sher- 
 bourne to Bloor. 
 
 Front, Church, King, Sher- 
 bourne, Carleton, Parliament, 
 Winchester. 
 
 Front, Church, King, Sher- 
 bourne, Queen, Parliament, 
 and Gerrard St, E. 
 
 College Street, College Avenue, 
 Carleton and Parliament. 
 
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 TORONTO UNIVERSITY, Queen's Park. 
 KNOX COLLEGE, Spadina Avenue. 
 NORMAL SCHOOL, Church St. 
 OSGOODE HALL, Queen St. West. 
 VIEW ON TORONTO ISLAND. 
 ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, King St. 
 
 West. 
 METROPOLITAN METHODIST CHURCH, 
 
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 ICE-BOATING ON TORONTO BAY. 
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S ROMAN CATHOLIC 
 CATHEDRAL. 
 
 McM ASTER HALL, Bloor St. 
 
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 RESERVOIR, North Toronto. 
 
 VIEW OF TORONTO, Looking East from 
 Queen's Park. 
 
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 Toronto. 
 
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