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Title: Illustrated guide to Toronto by way of Niagara Falls : with indexed map of the city, showing street car lines
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Canada Railway News Co
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Publisher: Toronto : Canada Railway News Co.
Contributing Library: Toronto Public Library: Research and Reference Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he valuablelibrary housed in that end of the building. The Legislative Chamber is a lofty, well proportionedhall. The building contains many paintings of Patriots,Generals, and Statesmen, including W. Lyon Mackenzie,the first Mayor of the City in 1834, and afterwards theleader of the rebellion against the Family Compact, whodesigned the city arms and motto: Industry, Intelligenceand Integrity; and Laura Secord, who, in the periloustime of the invasion of Canada by the forces of the UnitedStates, travelled all night through the forest and theenemys lines to warn the British of an impending attackat Beaver Dam. Her warning i-esulted in a victory for theBritish and the capitulation of the foe. 39 UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS. These buildings are at the left of Queens Park. Heremany men, eminent throughout the continent, receivedtheir education. The general outline of the main buildingapproaches the form of a square, having an internal quad-rangle of about 200 feet square, the north side of which
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. is left open to the park. This building is one of the puresttypes of architecture in America. Convocation Hall, theBiological, Chemical, Medical, Science and Museum build-ings, the Library, with the new residences, and the Depart-ment of Household Science, the gift of Mrs. Treble-Massey,form a magnificent group of buildings in a beautiful settingof parkland. A very fine organ has recently been placed inConvocation Ilall. THE CITY HALL, The City Hall is situated at the head of Bay Street,which site was purchased at the cost of $250,000. Con-tracts for the erection of this building were let in 1887,and work commenced in 1889. The total cost (includingsite, clock, bells and furniture) was about $2,500,000. It is 40 about 289 feet square, and built of stone, and is of Romanesque architecture ; it has a tower 300 feet high, with anilluminated clock 21 feet in diameter, one of the largestin the • world. The trimming of the exterior is richlycarved ; the interior is

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