'Toronto has been well named, the Queen City, for she is unrivalled diversities of qualities which Appeal to all classes and conditions of men. She is beautiful, abound-{ng in fine parks, streets' avenued with hill, dale and deep vieing with' each other in picturesqueness. She is religious, with more churches, in_ proportion, than anywhere else, not only. well attended with—worshippers, but! singularly well off in excellent prea cher, She has amusements and ocreations to suit every taste. She the second industrial city in Ganacla; the first intellectually, re-Joicing in an excellent university' comprising colleges of every de-parti sent of art and sciences re-{quired by the professions. Twenty nine years ago my impressions of the city were such that T exclaimed, "there is a city where I could wish spend. the evening of life." Toronto, since then, has increased liber population three and a half times, the estimate for 1923 being 538,771. "She has lost none of her former beauty, but has grown every way, and the impression form fed upon my first visit has now copened, and my desire eon firmed.
The latitude of Toronto is between 43 and 44 degrees north, on a parallel with Marseilles. Her ai is over 82 square miles. From east to west she stretches for a distance of 10 miles, and from north to south the distance varies from 3 to7 miles. She has 439 miles of street, 14 miles of lanes, and 189 miles of street 1 ways (single track mileage). Toronto isan Indian word and means place of meeting" and in the 17th century the name was applied to the County of Huron between Lake Simeoe and Lake Huron, In 1787 the land upon which Toronto now stands was sold to the Crown for $85.00 by the Missisanga Indians.
1704 Governor Simeoe named the settlement "York" in honor of the Duke of York, second son of George the Third, In 1707 the first parliament of Upper Canada was held at York, It was afterwards nicknamed "Muddy York." The popula-then numbered 456, In 1813 to. It then had a population of approximately 9,000.
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