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Identifier: torontoidealsumm00unse Title: Toronto the ideal summer city : pictured and described. Year: 1890 (1890s) Authors: Subjects: Publisher: Toronto : W.G. MacFarlane Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Text Appearing Before Image: QUEENS PARK, FROM THE TOWER OF THE PARLIAMENT BUILDING Toronto: tbe Sfceal Summer Gitp of Niagara. To the north the Muskoka region unfolds its manifold delights, and the waters of the Georgian Baylap the shores of their ten thousand islets. To the east, beyond the broad expanse of Lake Ontario, the mighty St.Lawrence, with its Thousand Isles, beckons the traveller on to the zest of the wild dash down the Long Sault. But it is of Toronto we speak, its beautiful architecture, its thronging marts, its delightful drives and shady

Text Appearing After Image: TORONTO BAY AM) THIS ISLAND nooks, its sports, aquatic and afield. The first city of the first Province of Canada lies in the heart of some of therichest country on the continent, rich in soil, in forest and in mineral wealth. Ontario is developing rapidly, andToronto is getting its full share of the increasing prosperity. It has grown rapidly of late years and, including itssuburbs, has a population of about 225,000. It possesses exceptional advantages as a manufacturing city, and as atorontoidealsumm00unse

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