One Hundred Glimpses Of Toronto Queen City Of Canada

Author : C. S. Clark
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ISBN 13 : 9781330779354
Total Pages : 220 pages
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Download or read book Of Toronto the Good written by C. S. Clark and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Of Toronto the Good: A Social Study; The Queen City of Canada as It Is "Toronto the Good" and beautiful is one of the finest cities on the continent in point of beauty, wealth and intelligence, as it is unquestionably the leading commercial city of the west. It supplies to a large extent the requirements of Manitoba and the North West, and promises to seriously rival Montreal in the extent of its wholesale trade. Situated in the centre of the Province, and commanding the leading position on Lake Ontario, it is essentially a point of importance. It has some of the handsomest streets on the continent, and is really well laid out. Jarvis street with its elegant pavement is in summer a most attractive thoroughfare, and the same may be said or Bloor, Sherbourne and Spadina, but the extreme east end, and the west end east of Parkdale are the abode of poverty to a very great extent, and are commensurately less desirable. The city extends from the Bay northward to a line scarcely definable, and this is also the case with the east and west. Real estate men and companies have opened large tracts of land, and farms have been converted into building lots, and as the fact of their being in the city limits increases their value, it becomes therefore, most desirable that they should be incorporated as soon as they are so divided. It was in the year 1883 that Toronto became land hungry and began to stretch forth ambitious hands to seize adjoining sections of the County of York. Hear in mind that up to this date Bloor street on the north, Dufferin street on the west, and virtually the Don on the east marked the boundaries of our city, whose area was 6, 771 acres. In 1883, Yorkville threw in its lot with the Queen City and became St. Pauls Ward. Its area was 543 acres. Its eastern boundary was Sherbourne street, and its western a line just east of Bedford road. In 1884, St. Matthews and St. Marks ward were born, a total increase to Torontos area of 2.346 acres. For just three years the city remained content, and then came the addition of a strip 200 feet deep on the north side of Kingston road (now Queen street), containing 57 acres, the new annex of 209 acres, 99 acres of Rosedale quickly followed in the succeeding year;1052 acres, including Seaton village, 91 acres between High Park and the west limit of Parkdale, and about 68 acres which carried St. Paul's hard up to the top of the hill above the C. P. R. Hemmed in by the city on three sides, Parkdale next joined fortunes with Toronto and in 1889 added St. Alban's Ward, a fair-sized debt and 650 acres of land to the municipality. This was the last accession to our area, excepting a small strip of 35 acres on the east side of Greenwood's line, which was acquired in 1890. Toronto now discovered that she had grown even too strong, and that she had acquired enough territory to hold all the citizens we are likely to have for the next fifty years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.