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Title: Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
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Publisher: (Montreal) : The System
Contributing Library: Brock University
Digitizing Sponsor: Brock University

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r-face and wooded heights. Rosedale, at the north-east, is adorned with fine residences, while QueensPark, the Horticultural Gardens, and other charm-ing resorts are found in the heart of the city. The suggestive title of the City of Churcheswill strike the visitor as exceedingly appropriate,in view of the multiplicity of church structures,representing all denominational inter-ests, and in an endlessdiversity of arch-itecture. The St. James Cathedral, onKing Street, is conspicuous by reasonof its spire, said to be I hehighest in America, while amultitude of other costly andimposing edifices greet theeye on every hand. Toronto is the center ofthe public system of educa-tion for Ontario, and in itssuccessful workings thepeople take commendable;iride. Educational affairslie placed in charge of a^lepartment of the Govern-11 nment, presided over by aMiui^ler of the Crown, re-sponsible to the Legislature.The public schools in Toron-to are an index of popularsentiment on this paramount st. j
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fiuestiun of education. The buildings are thoroughly modern,the teachers eftlcient, and the system the embodiment of tliebest suggestions. At this writing there are in Toronto 57 pulilicschools, with 5S0 rooms, accommodating 34,600 pupils. Theseparate schools carried on under public authority by the Ro-man Catholics are large and efficient institutions. There arethree collegiate institutes, a Normal School for the training ofteachers, and the great University of Toronto, the keystone ofthe educational arch. The beautiful and historic building ofthe University was destroyed b\- fire in Feliruary, 1890. but

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