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Identifier: statementconcern00onta (find matches)
Title: A statement concerning the extent resources, climate and industrial development of the province of Ontario, Canada
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Ontario. Dept. of Crown Lands
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: (Toronto, Cameron, Pr.)
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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nce, two Medical and a Dental Col-lege, and two Colleges of Music, etc. This University was founded in 1827.It has an endowment of over a million dollars, and an income of $85,000.Its students, male and female, number about 2,000, It also is undenomi-national. The following universities have been established by various denomi-nations :— Ottawa University (Roman Catholic), Queens University (Presbyter-ian),Trinity University (Episcopalian), The Western University( Episcopalian),Victoria University (Methodist), now federated with Toronto, and McMasterUniversity (Baptist) In addition to the above, a number of private and endowed schools andcolleges are to be found throughout the Province for the students of bothsexes, some of which are of a denominational character. Among these theUpper Canada College is well known There is also a school of Technology,and a school of Art and Design, located in Toronto ; a college of agricul-ture ; two schools of Mining and three schools of Dairying. 29
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Transportation RAIL AND WATERWAYS NTx\RIO has nearly 8,000 miles of steam railways In this regardthe southern portion of the province is particularly well supplied,being covered with a network of lines These, in connectionwith the lake, river and canal navigation systems, afford excep-tional facilities for internal communication. Residents in tne settledportion of Ontario are in nearly all cases within easy access of a railroadand there are but few localities in which the farmer cannot reach astation with a load of produce and return to his home on the same day.The principal railway systems are the Grand Trunk and the CanadianPacific, two splendidly equipped roads with fine road-beds and rolling stockThese systems are not confined to Canada, but their ramifications extendto the United States as well. A third system, not so well known as the above, but one that seemslikely to play a very important part in the development of the country im-mediately north of the older settled portion of

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